Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | wishes to retire as Editor after the May issue of Medau News , and our thanks go to her for a long and excellent Editorship . |
| 2 | Although some of these conditions present no particular problems , it is clear that the air transport market has too many imperfections to work as theory would suggest . |
| 3 | ‘ We have a lot of demons to nail as part of our creative process . ’ |
| 4 | The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs . |
| 5 | Two of its members are elected every six months to act as Captains-Regent ( currently Adolmiro Bartolini and Ottaviano Rossi ) , with the functions of head of state , and who with a Congress of State exercise executive power . |
| 6 | Two of its members are elected every six months to act as Captains-Regent ( head of state ) , and , with a Congress of State , to exercise executive power . |
| 7 | When they eventually became man and wife , it was the ‘ quietest of quiet weddings ’ and they had to pay half-a-crown for two passers-by to act as witnesses . |
| 8 | Since Dr Banda took control of this picture-postcard country in 1964 , he has allowed various religions to serve as opium for his masses , to keep Malawian minds from dwelling on his authoritarian rule . |
| 9 | They ride to war alongside their fathers , and join together with other young nobles to fight as units of pistoliers on the battlefield . |
| 10 | The 'dogs ran in 10 tries to 2 by the Sharks to finish as winners by 52 points to 12 . |
| 11 | A special provision applies in the case of those firms which have set up wholly owned , unlimited executor and trustee companies to act as executors and trustees for clients . |
| 12 | The theory of ideology offers an account of the role of knowledge in society that enables its analyses to operate as critique . |
| 13 | Labour will establish mortgage rescue schemes throughout the country , enabling home buyers to remain as tenants or part-owners . |
| 14 | Our churches and cathedrals rot while we build dams and factories to worship as objects . |
| 15 | Night Goblin Shamans are expert at identifying , growing and using fungi , and they grow many special strains to use as poisons or even weapons . |
| 16 | These more ambitious Vascons lost the use of their distinctive language , however , and turned eventually into Gas cons , the inhabitants of Gas cony , whom it takes a second or two these days to recognize as cousins of the Basques . |
| 17 | Section 39 Trustee Act 1925 provides that where a trustee desires to be discharged from the trust and where after his discharge there will be either a trust corporation or at least two individuals to act as trustees , then if the trustee by deed declares that he desires to be discharged and his co-trustees consent , he shall be deemed to have retired from the trust . |
| 18 | The poachers are operating in Somerset 's Quantock Hills , shooting stags and hacking off their heads and antlers to display as trophies . |
| 19 | Even in fuel-rich Bhundri , three families have to collect plants to burn as fuel . |
| 20 | He 's borrowed one of the warehouses to use as stables . |
| 21 | We also recruit assistant stewardesses to work as telephone liaison between the passengers and the ship 's staff . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , in order to accommodate the monarchist lobby , when the first local government elections since the Civil War were held , in Madrid , in November 1954 , Franco allowed a group of monarchists to stand as candidates alongside the official list . |
| 23 | During the year when you have essays to write or problems to solve as part of the requirements of the course , work on a small space on your desk with the items that you are allowed to take into the examination room . |
| 24 | That issue was referred by the sale and purchase agreement to a named firm of chartered accountants to determine as experts . |
| 25 | This creates opportunities for accountants to act as experts , preparing a report on the subject of the suit or prosecution and possibly giving evidence in court as an expert witness . |
| 26 | In Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , the parties had settled the question of liability in their dispute and instructed a firm of accountants to act as experts to decide the amount of damages . |
| 27 | Morgan Hill , California-based Puzzle Systems Inc has brought out SoftNet Utilities , software that will allow HP , IBM , SCO and Sparc platforms to act as Novell Inc NetWare-compatible file servers as well as run Unix applications . |
| 28 | It is important to note in this context that courts have an inherent power to permit anyone to act as advocate , though this is seldom exercised except for the massive exception which at one time allowed police officers to act as prosecutors in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 29 | We have seen that the difficulty of obtaining the gratuitous services of suitable persons to act as trustees has necessarily led to the practice of reposing an ever wider range of discretion in those who can only thus be persuaded to act . |
| 30 | The Crown Hotel in Newmilns amy have a few stories to tell as surprise , surprise , one of her friends had organised a ‘ Strip O'Gram ’ to provide some hilarious entertainment . |