Example sentences of "act as one " in BNC.

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1 We can not be like Red Indians , sitting in a circle and acting as one man. , ‘ Do you think we have lost that forever ? ’
2 FYT is acting as one of the Congress Partners .
3 An imperfect analogy is to think of D1 and D2 acting as one way water valves , with C5 as a piston .
4 That 's the point that Hughie has set as one of his objectives for the next twelve months , is to get the group acting as one team , and not five or six separate teams .
5 They 're also acting as one of the major exhibition venues for Oxfordshire Artweek , which is running for the last 2 weeks in May .
6 All the same , plants certainly act as one integrated life form .
7 The leaves , roots , stems , flowers and fruiting parts act as one and work together just like the bodies of humans and other species .
8 If a castle acted as one of a related group it could provide defence in depth : an army could be inhibited from penetrating behind a group of castles by the threat to its communications which they provided , and the danger of attack from the rear .
9 From 1237 until 1245 he seems to have acted as one of the stewards of the king 's household , a post that he combined with the sheriffdom of Gloucestershire ( 1238–46 ) and more briefly with the justiciarship of the southern forests ( 1241–2 ) and the seneschalship of Gascony ( 1243 ) .
10 They have a lovely daughter named Katie who acted as one of their attendants on the big day .
11 Since the England manager acted as one of Ward 's referees when he applied for the York job , it was no surprise when Taylor turned to one of his trusted lieutenants to take charge of England 's Under-21 squad for the end-of-season international tournament in Toulon .
12 The first , in Thanet wing , is to act as one of three Vulnerable Prisoner Units in the country .
13 John was also active during the same period as an assize and gaol delivery justice and managed to find time to act as one of the trusted servants of Edward 's wife , Queen Eleanor .
14 By thus consenting they form one body politic and it is implied in the contract that the majority have the right to conclude for the rest and let me quote for when any number of men have by the consent of every individual made a community they have thereby made that community one body with a power to act as one body which is only by the will and determination of the majority it being necessary to that which is one body to move one way a single body ca n't move in two opposite directions simultaneously .
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