Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a great deal of essential data on infant behavior that I am using as control material . |
| 2 | Although this activity has traditionally been based in the UK , Spain and Germany are now taking the plunge as , Bonelli said , an increasing number of companies and government departments are outsourcing as part of rationalisation or downsizing projects . |
| 3 | So long as the traveller historians and geographers , such as Herodotus and Pliny the Elder , Chau Ju-Kwa and Ibn Batuta , Friar Odoric and Marco Polo , are writing as eye-witness observers , most of what they report is entirely factual and authentic . |
| 4 | I am writing as Chairman of Darlington Business Venture and Darlington Enterprise Association Ltd to ensure people are not taken in . |
| 5 | It concluded that Kennedy was shot by Oswald acting alone , a verdict which has been questioned ever since by those believing that he must have been acting as part of a conspiracy . |
| 6 | Jean is Stella 's daughter , and Lucy has been acting as hostess in her place . ’ |
| 7 | This Shrewsbury company , Orbicom has been acting as middleman in selling Montegos to Russia . |
| 8 | 17 year old , Richard Tuthill , the youngest driver and his dad , who 's been acting as navigator will make it too in their old beetle . |
| 9 | In any case , young Gavin can always fill his shoes if he does n't appear — he 's been acting as understudy . |
| 10 | ‘ According to him , you are acting as understudy . |
| 11 | Enumerate the points to be made , and state what part of the argument is being left to your junior ( if you are acting as leader ) . |
| 12 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
| 13 | Car firms act over soaring ‘ hot hatch ’ insurance costs Prices of some performance models are plunging as cover becomes almost impossible for the under-25s , writes John Langley |
| 14 | The teams are performing as self managed units although the manager will agree clear objectives with the team . |
| 15 | Quack ! ’ said one , and the other one screamed , ‘ I 'm goin' as quack as I can ! ’ |
| 16 | Yeah I I I 'm acting as devil 's advocate in a sense . |
| 17 | Sir Thomas will no longer be acting as go-between in the matter of correspondence , but the prince might well contrive some other means of communicating with you . |
| 18 | Second in command , Paul Hancock , says they 'll be acting as back up to the Desert Rats at bases in the north-east of Saudi Arabia . |
| 19 | In general terms an indirect customer is a person for whom the firm 's direct customer is known to be acting as intermediary , who is identified to the firm before the transaction and who would be a customer of the firm if dealt with direct . |
| 20 | If an independent person is required to determine the dispute , should that person be acting as expert ( less formal , procedures agreed between parties , decision almost impossible to challenge ) or as arbitrator ( quasi-litigation , procedures defined by law , can be appealed to courts ) ? |
| 21 | Secondly , he must be acting as agent in a way of business . |
| 22 | In that same summer , however , occurred the incident involving the Hurufis , to be described shortly , in which Fahreddin Acemi is clearly shown to be acting as Mufti ; and he must therefore have been Mufti at the time of Molla Arab 's putative association with him . |
| 23 | You should also make sure that the person who will be acting as receptionist is properly briefed . |
| 24 | By mid-1993 one location — still to be named — will be acting as testbed for the improved HSE audit procedures . |
| 25 | Service must be effected on one of the persons acting or deemed to be acting as solicitor for the department . |
| 26 | Sheffield will be acting as host city . |
| 27 | The branch manager jobs are said to be going as part of a reorganisation which BIFU believes will lead to more job losses . |
| 28 | I do n't think of what I 'm doing as gender specific . |
| 29 | The latter case is more likely if the new user is to be working as part of a team , since the team leader will probably have the privilege to create users according to the needs of the project . |
| 30 | Firstly , before documents are available which give a general comparison and assessment at one date across an area ( like Domesday Book or a medieval Lay Subsidy ) it is very difficult to know whether all the sites we are comparing as part of our settlement pattern are contemporary . |