Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [to-vb] as [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Mercurial striker Ian Wright joined The Eagles from Greenwich Borough in 1 985 and quickly made his mark with us as a highly effective ‘ super-sub ’ in his first season , scoring nine times to finish as Palace 's second-highest scorer with Phil Barber .
4 If a person has , say , five jobs to do as part of his professional responsibility , and is beginning to feel inadequate because he is n't doing them all perfectly … take on ten more .
5 Many farmers are grading up their Friesians over four generations to register as Holsteins .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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