Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [v-ing] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton Shulman , in the London Evening Standard , described Crawford and Corbett 's acting as ‘ two of the neatest comic performances I have seen in the West End for some time ’ . |
| 2 | Pat is working as a midwife in an intensive care unit for premature babies . |
| 3 | Andy Halliday was acting as Best Man at British canoeist Jim Overton 's wedding to Diane Jewell , held on Bean Hollow Beach in California . |
| 4 | Among the services that TeleWest is touting as potential offerings is flat-rate billing for calls between its customers , call waiting , third-party conference , call barring , distinctive ringing and call forwarding . |
| 5 | Now that Spain is emerging as a more exciting holiday destination , it has acquired its own version of the Orient Express — the Al Andalus . |
| 6 | The CNAA was acting as a deterrent by preventing difficult decisions from being taken internally . |
| 7 | Whether it was the suggestion or pure tiredness Maggie was yawning as if in her support . |
| 8 | Nigel was playing as a member of a Club team competing in a qualifying round of the B.B. & O. Club Championship . |
| 9 | Anna Bradshaw is starting as ASO on a 2-year appointment . |
| 10 | Rory was smiling as the small , plump figure scuttled out of the dressing-room , but the smile quickly changed to a thoughtful frown . |
| 11 | Tanzania , backed by Kenya , Somalia and the Gambia , is urging a ban on the ivory trade because elephant numbers in east and central Africa are falling as a result of poaching . |
| 12 | He had this little stylophone with him and played both parts , because ‘ Space Oddity ’ was originally written as a duet for him and Hutch who was his partner in Feathers , the mixed media group , and when David split with Hermione , he and Hutch were working as a duet . |
| 13 | It has also been shown that dust blowing in from Africa is acting as a kind of vitamin supplement to the poor soils of the Amazon rainforest . |
| 14 | Jack Mather is retiring as Chief Executive of NFC following the company 's annual meeting . |
| 15 | R. Hamilton is resigning as treasurer but is eligible for re-election to the committee . |
| 16 | While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it . |
| 17 | Hannah Dooley was looking as if she might do something usefully hysterical at any moment . |
| 18 | Ernst & Young is acting as investigating accoutants for the merchant bank and , for the time being at least , Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte , continues as the company 's accountants . |
| 19 | Ernst & Young is acting as investigating accountants for the merchant bank and , for the time being at least , Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte , continues as the company 's accountants . |
| 20 | Alec played a blinder but Julie Goodyear 's acting as the hapless Bet Lynch was as wooden as Long John Silver 's leg . |
| 21 | Darlington magistrates were told how Taylor had continued to claim benefit while his wife Sharon was working as a barmaid . |
| 22 | No more is heard of him after this , although Kympton was acting as agent for the commissioners of the sick and wounded at Plymouth in 1703 . |
| 23 | Meanwhile Roe 's Macclesfield Company 's activities continued at Coniston and output figures in John Moore 's estate book are provided below , Moore was acting as steward to Sir Michael le Fleming and this was a position of great trust . |
| 24 | Kopyion was kneeling as if in prayer . |
| 25 | Drs David Gorst at Lancaster Royal Infirmary , Jerry Ravetz , Honorary Reader in the Lancaster Centre for Science Studies and Science Policy and Iain Chalmers , Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford are acting as consultants to the research group . |
| 26 | A report from CITES to Interpol claims that the Soviet Union and eastern Europe are emerging as the centre for the world 's illegal trade in animals . |
| 27 | The prime target of their discontent was Serrano , for he had intervened with Franco in an attempt to obtain clemency for the Falangists involved in what Galarza and Varela were presenting as an attack on the Army as an institution . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , USL Pacific is acting as Chorus ' agent in the Far East where it has no operation of its own . |
| 29 | Colin Archer is joining as finance director from British Home Stores . |
| 30 | Right now the trade union movement in Britain is functioning as a white man 's union and this must be challenged . |