Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many towns in the Middle Ages sought to have as part of their local welfare services a Christian recluse whose chief work was prayer and availability to people as spiritual adviser . |
| 2 | The prelates continued to act as mediators throughout the summer months , assuring Lancaster of safety from the threats of the king 's latest favourites . |
| 3 | ‘ For sale ’ signs began to multiply as panic set in that the village would be blighted . |
| 4 | The two firms continued to act as member firms in E&Y International , but a full merger has never been possible . |
| 5 | Olechowski continued to serve as caretaker Finance Minister . |
| 6 | Someone had said that nowadays doctors had to double as priests , offering general consolation and advice to their patients . |
| 7 | Trade sanctions had to remain as promoters of environmental protection , he argued . |
| 8 | More importantly , many will have increasingly supplied goods and services to the nearby villas and rural settlements , as individual small towns came to act as centres for periodic or permanent local fairs or markets . |
| 9 | These towns started to grow as ports . |
| 10 | Priests continued to act as sponsors of the local catholic — nationalist political structure , chairing meetings of the party and permitting the political use of the parish hall . |
| 11 | Cells programmed to develop as cartilage would , for example , migrate only to the head region . |