Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb -s] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a venomous mole or shrew bites its prey , its saliva acts as a paralytic agent . |
| 2 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 3 | As Packer ( 1968 ) has pointed out , the criminality of their enterprise acts as a kind of ‘ tariff ’ that protects them from the competition of ‘ legitimate ’ entrepreneurs unwilling to take the risks of illegal enterprise , and provides them with customers who have no legal redress against the most excessive forms of exploitation . |
| 4 | Farthest away its surface acts as a mirror and the sky 's colours will be almost identical to those of its reflection — almost but not quite . |
| 5 | Their secret is soon discovered , however , when the local nuclear waste storage facility where their father works as a physicist records mysterious disappearances of radioactive materials . |
| 6 | For short periods of stress in an amorphous elastomer , the entanglement and intertwining of chains with their neighbours acts as a physical restraint to excessive chain movement and the elastomer regains its original length when the stress is removed . |
| 7 | A mare in foal has been stabbed fifty times in what her owner describes as a brutal and motiveless attack . |
| 8 | Many common passerine species must also have increased their downland ranges as a result of the slow advance of scrub and woodland over the remaining grass , and probably the downland avifauna is more varied today than in 1939 despite losing its characteristic and most interesting specialities . |
| 9 | ( David and Margot Wizansky have no financial interests in the properties , but their company acts as a consultancy and can provide a management service . ) |
| 10 | Mr Wakerley said Sams denied any knowledge of the kidnap and murder of Julie and in a confession to the Stephanie plot admitted making ‘ one huge error ’ by discussing his ransom plans as a joke with another person . |
| 11 | He was freed in 1983 and now having custody of his children works as a full-time father . |
| 12 | Even in that period , reactions were not always as bad as these ; in 1618 the water-poet John Taylor had a wonderful Scottish holiday ( having gone there , as a result of a bet with Ben Jonson , without money , so that his account stands as a testimony to the generosity of the Scots ) . |
| 13 | He is plagued by demons which go back to his childhood and his torment intensifies as a train hurtles him away from or maybe towards a crime . |
| 14 | We are espeically pleased that his Knighthood comes as a result of Mrs Thatcher 's personal recognition . |
| 15 | Like all representatives , his garage acts as a warehouse for samples and spare parts . |
| 16 | The ‘ semisolid ’ test meal used in our studies behaves as a slow emptying liquid . |
| 17 | ‘ The key to recognising an addiction is when it starts to have power and control over you and the rest of your life suffers as a consequence . ’ |