Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On June 3 , 1990 , the national committee of the Social Democratic Party voted to suspend the party 's constitution because it no longer had the membership or popular support to continue as a democratic national party . |
| 2 | When all this was going on I left my job as a bank clerk to work as a messenger . |
| 3 | The woman of the future would be far more than a nurse or consoler , she would have a positive religion to realize as a high-priestess of health . |
| 4 | There are five specific reasons for not calling a witness given in r25 — namely , that the witness is dead or beyond the seas or unfit by reason of bodily or mental condition to attend as a witness or that , despite the exercise of reasonable diligence , it has not been possible to identify or find him or that he can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection of matters relevant to the accuracy or otherwise of the statement . |
| 5 | In effect , the concept implied a commitment on the part of the employee to work as a moral good in its own right , irrespective of wages , conditions , or personal ( selfish ) satisfaction . |
| 6 | A MAN accused of forcing his 15-year-old girlfriend to work as a prostitute claimed he was trying to stop her soliciting , a jury heard yesterday . |
| 7 | If the form of such relations is in fact reordered at the level of consciousness to appear as an exploitation of things , then the effect is to reduce the sensation of the violence of exploitation and also to legitimize the relations of dominance . |
| 8 | Bayezid II was won over by Mueyyedzade 's arguments and not only appointed Kemalpasazade to the Taslik medrese but also charged him with writing a history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish to serve as a companion piece to that being written in Persian by Idris Bitlisi |
| 9 | A rabbit warren enlarged by a vixen to serve as a fox earth . |
| 10 | Delegates also declared their intention to function as a party — the National Liberals ' Congress ( KKL ) . |
| 11 | A married couple taking in lodgers will be able to decide whether they prefer the whole of the rent to count as the husband 's or as the wife 's for entitlement to the full relief . |
| 12 | The residence period for a British Overseas Citizen to qualify as a British Citizen has not yet been specified , nor have the rights , if any , of British citizens already living in Britain . |
| 13 | It was , I saw , an application for a permit to race as an amateur jockey . |
| 14 | After a year at training college to qualify as a teacher , he had two years at a comprehensive school in St Neots , Hunts. , but he wanted to achieve much more as a music teacher and did so when he became assistant director at Sevenoaks . |
| 15 | A constable need not be in uniform when he effects the arrest ( and calls for the defendant to desist as a preliminary ) , although if an off-duty policeman does attempt to implement the Act , strict conditions should be observed as to what he must do and say to make it plain that he is a constable . |
| 16 | He was the fifth Richard Gough in succession to live as a small freeholder and yeoman farmer at Newton . |
| 17 | This put paid to Baldwin 's attempt to pose as a champion of collective security . |
| 18 | However , that would surely be a great pity , because project work should have a great deal to offer as a means of developing reading and other skills . |
| 19 | However an encouraging number of teacher groups did find a first step of action to take as a result of using the process . |
| 20 | He enjoyed oriental sex techniques , picked up during his days in the Far East , and was keen on applying a pinch of cocaine to the tip of his penis to act as an aphrodisiac . |
| 21 | In the community tank where the decor consists of numerous caves made from rockwork , with a good depth of gravel to act as a filter medium , and where the fish tend to dig less than in a tank especially set up for breeding , then undergravel filtration will be adequate once the biological action in the gravel has become firmly established . |
| 22 | This is the special material laminated to roller shade fabric to act as a lining , a stiffener and a blocker-out of unwelcome light . |
| 23 | It shall be the duty of every professor to act as the supervisor of graduate students as and when requested to do so by a faculty board or other competent body , unless he can show reasonable cause , to the satisfaction of that board or other body , why on a particular occasion he should not do so . |
| 24 | It shall be the duty of every professor to act as an examiner or assessor as and when requested to do so by a nominating committee or other competent body unless he can show reasonable cause to the satisfaction of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors why on a particular occasion he should not do so . |
| 25 | We have enlisted the help of a musician to act as a guinea-pig and to test the available music software and hardware . |
| 26 | It is often said that the hammer axle bushing in the Kapsel , or fork in which the hammer shank is mounted , absorbs enough of the energy of the returning hammer to act as a check . |
| 27 | The abolition of development charges was made on the ground that they had proved ‘ too unreliable an instrument to act as the lynch-pin of a permanent settlement ’ . |
| 28 | Speculation that the Prime Minister is looking for an experienced figure to act as an advisor follows Norman Lamont 's devastating resignation speech last week . |
| 29 | But here too we are invited to start with a limiting or ideal-type case to serve as a reference point for mixed cases . |
| 30 | Detinue , with its procedural disadvantages , wilted considerably under this treatment though it retained a place in the law because inability to redeliver as a result of loss or destruction of the goods could not amount to a positive denial of title for the purposes of conversion . |