Example sentences of "to act as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the nest is attached by one side to a leaf , its support is clearly lop-sided , in which case the hummingbird may weave small particles of earth into a long extension of the nest , dangling beneath , to act as counterweights and level it . |
| 2 | The researchers believe that supramolecular structures such as micelles will prove particularly useful for the study of autopoietic phenomena because they allow extensive variation in structural organisation and can thus have a higher degree of functional complexity , for example being able to act as hosts to guest molecules , such as enzymes . |
| 3 | To implement a purchaser-provider split within Newcastle social services department the plan is to let the fieldwork section , based in area social work teams , act as purchasers and the residential and day care section ( which includes home care ) to act as providers . |
| 4 | to act as castanets . |
| 5 | Local residents have sought special legislation to protect the dolphins , an information centre has been built , and now full-time custodians are appointed to act as guardians and to teach the public how to treat the dolphins . |
| 6 | If you think about and watch the settings of your child 's behaviour , it may be that he or she behaves in a non-compliant way , or has a tantrum on some occasions but not others ; that is , some situations seem to act as cues for him or her to behave in a particular way . |
| 7 | Groups formed as a result of a parent company , such as Matsushita Electric , spinning off its own operating divisions to form separate companies within the same field to act as suppliers , distributors and even retailers . |
| 8 | Blackberry , the rabbit with tipped ears who had been startled by Fiver the night before , had listened carefully to Hazel 's description of the notice board , remarking that he had always felt sure that men left these things about to act as signs or messages of some kind , in the same way that rabbits left marks on runs and gaps . |
| 9 | This creates opportunities for accountants to act as experts , preparing a report on the subject of the suit or prosecution and possibly giving evidence in court as an expert witness . |
| 10 | Pope John dealt with practical aspects : choice of theologians and canonists to act as experts ; rules of debate ; voting procedures ; working-language ( Latin ) ; relations with the press . |
| 11 | The words used also usually say that the auditors are to act as experts and not as arbitrators , and the commercial tradition is that they should not be arbitrators . |
| 12 | In Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , the parties had settled the question of liability in their dispute and instructed a firm of accountants to act as experts to decide the amount of damages . |
| 13 | In The Form of Living he charts the sacramental understanding at the heart of the Mass , as a whole way of life and perceived growth in consciousness ; his Meditations on the Passion engage with different stages of such growth and , indeed , are designed to act as catalysts for its progress . |
| 14 | These ‘ others ’ comprise housing workers , people skilled in developing and supervising work and other forms of daily occupation , welfare benefits negotiators , domestic care staff to provide help in the home and with personal care , teachers , counsellors and sympathetic listeners , people willing to act as befrienders and companions and , finally , responsive general practice services . |
| 15 | Mr Martin added that the trustees have instructed Godwins Scotland , which will continue to act as administrators and actuaries of the scheme , to investigate whether the assets were enough to meet all benefits . |
| 16 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 17 | In both primary and secondary schools there is a need for as highly qualified teachers as possible to act as coordinators , helping and encouraging those whose main expertise lies elsewhere . |
| 18 | More worryingly insidious is their ability to act as magnets to acid rain , taking it from the atmosphere and releasing it into the soil , where it leaches down and enters the water system . |
| 19 | New departments and quangos would , according to the review , be designed to act as irritants and antagonists within the Civil Service system . |
| 20 | Bus services were excluded from the committee 's remit as , even before deregulation , buses operated in a much more competitive and diversified environment than the public sector monopolies over whose transport services TUCCs were designed to act as watchdogs . |
| 21 | The consultant may , on the other hand , be able to suggest to the head teacher that an invitation be extended to other support staff with such specialist qualifications , from within the school or the school services , to act as co-consultants , with a view to developing their own consultative skills . |
| 22 | He showed that condensation would not take place under normal atmospheric conditions , even at high supersaturations , without the presence of dust particles to act as nuclei . |
| 23 | Women have preferred to act as collaborators , as messengers or guards or offering their houses as meeting places , all of which subject then " to considerable risk . |
| 24 | About 20 senior officials , largely drawn from the Cabinet Office and 10 Downing Street , will be on hand to act as go-betweens . |
| 25 | Harvard Securities at its peak employed runners to act as go-betweens for dealers and market-makers . |
| 26 | Northern Ireland Office Civil servants have approached a number of community and church groups to act as go-betweens with loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 27 | The evidence suggests that Cade 's support was fairly widely based , and that the strength of his leadership lay in his ability to act as spokesmen for all the social groups which supported him . |
| 28 | Two groups of proteins have been shown to act as superantigens , one exogenous to the host and the other carried endogenously in the host 's genome . |
| 29 | Thus did the social democrats betray their promise of a new world without war , and come to act as instruments for each ruling order : nationalism was the key ideological means of breaking the workers ’ challenge to the status quo . |
| 30 | Conveyancers are not normally expected to act as negotiators and , if estate agents are involved , it is important to make certain that they have fully and finally settled the price , both for the legal estate in the property and for any extras , such as fixtures and fittings , or even any chattels that might be left at the property . |