Example sentences of "[conj] act as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , either as a result of his or her independent actions , or acting as a result of an objection by a member of the public , the auditor can seek redress in the courts when an item of account is contrary to the law , or where money has not been brought to account or loss has been incurred through wilful misconduct . |
| 2 | Am I compounding a felony , or acting as an accessory before the fact ? ’ |
| 3 | The influencer may , for instance , change the purchase objective , or act as a catalyst to render the original purchase motivation more practical or feasible . |
| 4 | AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work . |
| 5 | Er I 'm also concerned that the services in er even a village that size would be erm overwhelmed by the demands of erm large scale development , but that 's the largest , there are a range of other settlements which are mostly much smaller and even much less able to accommodate , or act as a nucleus for large scale development . |
| 6 | No person shall be appointed or re-appointed or act as a Director unless he is a solicitor or a registered foreign lawyer . |
| 7 | No person shall be appointed or re-appointed or act as a Director unless he is a solicitor or a registered foreign lawyer . |
| 8 | Such a course can then remain relatively isolated , or at least on a par with other courses offered within the same institution on a more traditional basis , or act as a focus for further course development ( through the processes of ‘ accretion ’ or ‘ invention discussed in Chapter 2 ) . |
| 9 | And those who do breed often bear the brunt of the responsibility for their children as men often fail to support their children or act as a role model . |
| 10 | From now on he either fought on the French side or acted as a neutral between the parties . |
| 11 | Pennycuick J. found that there was no implied request for any service or promise of service [ for example , to use his best endeavours to persuade the bank to sell at £100,000 or to act as a go-between — cf. the putting in touch with X in British Bank for Foreign Trade v. Novinex ( above , p. 94 ) ] . |
| 12 | The true value of a picture lies in its ability to illustrate a point or to act as an eye-catcher both to the editor and subsequently to the reader . |
| 13 | In these circumstances parents made a virtue of necessity ; they believed that the experience of death could strengthen family ties , rather than act as a dissolvent . |
| 14 | This leaves the school in the weak position of reacting to opinion rather than acting as an opinion former . |
| 15 | If planted along contours , the grass , which is unpalatable to livestock except in its early growth stages and thrives even in arid areas , will rapidly form easily managed hedges that act as a wind-break as well as a trap for eroded soil particles . |
| 16 | Most animal groups have the musky-scented pheromones that act as a form of communication . |
| 17 | But it is the Duchess herself who most obviously embodies those qualities of courage and fidelity that act as an antidote to the surrounding evil . |
| 18 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 19 | Many employees and organizations could benefit from a structure that acts as a conduit to help ideas flow more readily through an organization . |
| 20 | This is when the gun-toting kids on the street are high on qat — a bitter-tasting leaf that acts as an amphetamine . |
| 21 | Ecstasy Amphetamine compound that acts as an hallucinogen . |
| 22 | A firm that acts as an investment manager for a customer must send a report at suitable intervals stating the value of the portfolio or account at the beginning and end of the period , its composition at the end and , in the case of a discretionary portfolio or account , changes in its composition between those dates . |
| 23 | For many of us , though , it 's more likely to be the size and model of our company car and the allocation of a reserved parking space that acts as an advert for our status . |
| 24 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 25 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 26 | They were on a raised section of the Ring , the road that acted as the circumference of downtown , and all Jed could see was freeway , sky , and rows of swaying grey poles . |
| 27 | The function of the pronoun , then , is neither to name nor to act as a substitute for a noun . |
| 28 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |
| 29 | We all have the ability to speak and act as a parent , an adult or a child : |
| 30 | Secondly , there is a need to facilitate the finance of other objectives of economic policy such as fulfilling the objectives of the SEA , and act as a handmaiden to growth both inside and outside the EC . |