Example sentences of "[pers pn] operates as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If she operates as a separate entity I have no doubt her charm , beauty and popularity will mean her charity work will continue . |
| 2 | Light is not visible as an object in a particular place : rather , it operates as the invisible catalyst through which everything around takes form and shape . |
| 3 | In Mexico , especially in rural areas , it operates as an important principle of social organisation while , in Chile , it has lost a lot of its formal and obligatory nature and is not very meaningful for many people . |
| 4 | If , however , a group is set an ambiguous task with an uncertain outcome and with little previous experience to draw on it is unlikely to succeed unless it operates as a team at the skilful level . |
| 5 | It operates as an indivisible , adaptable whole which finds a dynamically shifting point of equilibrium according to circumstances and the cycles of nature . |
| 6 | It operates as a conduit for ideas to flow freely throughout an organization . |
| 7 | It operates as a profoundly cultural category , an attempted representation of particular experiences and a particular construction of unity around those experiences . |
| 8 | Lothian Highways can only survive if it operates as a TEAM . |
| 9 | For instance , at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ the Head of Music expressed the strongly held view that he operates as a practitioner involved in education rather than the transmission of an established body of knowledge . |
| 10 | If a crack begins to.penetrate into the wood across the grain , the Cook-Gordon mechanism — which we discussed in the last chapter — comes into operation in the region around the crack tip and the various cells become separated so that each of them operates as an independent helix , something like a drinking straw . |