Example sentences of "[adv prt] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those in the party who would like to see a more accommodating approach is Ross Harper , a prominent Glasgow lawyer and one of two main contenders for the Scottish party chairmanship , if the present incumbent Lord Sanderson stands down as expected next year . |
| 2 | Deputy secretary Anthea Rose has stepped in as acting chief executive while a replacement is found . |
| 3 | Eric Priest has taken over as acting Chief Fire Officer for Cleveland after the retirement of Bill Cooney on health grounds . |
| 4 | Gavin Anderson , director of strategic management of the NHS Management Executive , is to take over as acting chief executive until a successor to Mr Cruickshank is appointed . |
| 5 | The new appointments amounted to a purge of communist apparatchiks , among them Valentin Simonenko who had taken over as acting Prime Minister following Fokin 's resignation and was seen as Kravchuk 's first choice for premier , in favour of nationalists and industrialists . |
| 6 | Indeed throughout humanities disciplines , after thirty-odd years of this kind of research , there are embarrassingly few books and articles which can be confidently pointed out as passing both tests . |
| 7 | Trustees and personal representatives who manage investments ( unless they hold themselves out as providing professional investment services ) . |
| 8 | If this is not possible batteries should not be pulled out as hooked terminal segments may catch the springs and pull them out ( ruining the contact and rendering a none-too-cheap dealer repair necessary ) . |