Example sentences of "to act as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the past we would like to share the profit with another charity and a member of the Executive Committee has offered to act as Promoter for us if we could donate enough to provide 10 holidays for handicapped and needy children where she works ( £600 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ My housekeeper — Mathilde 's successor — is there to act as chaperon . ’ |
| 3 | The king believed that although Lancaster and his followers claimed to be acting in the king 's name they would in fact create disorder and in any case ‘ it was not their duty to act as judge and do justice ’ . |
| 4 | The review fleet will consist mainly of frigates and destroyers and the Novy hopes that HMS Ark Royal will have returned from the Adriatic to act as flagship . |
| 5 | To act as secretary . |
| 6 | " The Secretary then intimated that he intended to resign and thereby give another Member a chance to act as Secretary . |
| 7 | Mr. Frank Compton , committee member , of No. 118 has kindly agreed to act as Secretary for this event which has proved very popular and enjoyable in previous years . |
| 8 | In July 1988 he received a letter from Lord Vestey saying his name was withdrawn from the rotating list of those qualified to act as chairman . |
| 9 | When Harold Wilson put in Lord Hill of Luton to act as chairman of the BBC ( a Conservative who , as head of the Independent Television Authority had ‘ made sure that their treatment of news and current affairs does not offend the Establishment ’ , in the view of Richard Crossman ) , he remarked , ‘ Charlie Hill has already cleaned up ITV and he 'll do the same to the BBC now I 'm appointing him chairman . ’ |
| 10 | Sir Herbert Morgan took it upon himself to act as chairman of an unofficial committee to help realise the three-year project . |
| 11 | Mrs Janet Buchanan Smith as agreed to act as chairman . |
| 12 | The project leader , who will be one of these two representatives , is likely to act as chairman of the development team . |
| 13 | Leopold , asked to act as babysitter for his grandchildren Carl and a new baby , Johann , born on 18 October , grumpily declined , and the proposed visit had to be cancelled . |
| 14 | When he decided to challenge O'Neill in Bannside in 1969 , he asked Jimmy Beggs , the Free Presbyterian minister of Ballymena who had married his adoptive sister , to act as election agent . |
| 15 | It is also decided that a member of staff should be appointed on a ‘ B ’ allowance to act as coordinator . |
| 16 | The largest army in the world was recruited mainly from the peasantry , and , as has been seen in the provinces , the party still relied heavily in 1922 on ex-army men to act as leaven among the ‘ dark people ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ These provincial councils were meant to act as part of central council within their own area , but they have grown more independent and now we have a situation where there is both competition and conflict between them and a reluctance to accept the authority of central council . ’ |
| 18 | Other jobs and dignities , including the leadership of the House , the chairmanship of the party , the conduct of Central African affairs , the oversight of European negotiations , the first Secretaryship of State , and even the Deputy Premiership , were to be added unto me for varying periods in the years that followed ; and each time Macmillan went abroad-notably during his Eastern tour in 1958 and his African trip in 1960-I was automatically invited to act as head of the government . |
| 19 | A further task for the special advisory team will be to act as consultant to teachers who have visually handicapped pupils in their classes . |
| 20 | ‘ Demand was so good that it expanded from there , and George was happy to act as consultant , in return for being given some ground space at Ramsey to grow on Bonsai — his current passion . ’ |
| 21 | But he is prepared to act as consultant for corporate clients like Mars in order to be able , for little or no money , to advise clients like Greenpeace or the China Appeal , Michael Manley and the Jamaican government , the National Council for Civil Liberties and the opposition parties in the 1989 Hungarian elections , on their communications and advertising strategies . |
| 22 | Mr McIntyre visited Ottawa to act as consultant to the Canadian Co-operative Preservation Project , working on the National Preservation Policy and Strategy for Canadian libraries . |
| 23 | You can appoint one of your own people to act as press liaison officer after that , or I 'll lay on someone for the job . |
| 24 | Other organisations designate a press officer within the PR office and others simply expect all the PR staff to act as press officers as the need arises . |
| 25 | The Power of Attorney is given to a relative or solicitor to act as Attorney or donee , but this power ought to lapse if the donor is mentally incapacitated , and the Court of Protection should step in . |
| 26 | Fishermen from Yarmouth were imported in hundreds to act as deck hands . |
| 27 | ‘ I had to act as decoy . |
| 28 | The need to carry out ‘ proper ’ audits has been spelled out to firms , and those that do not do so run the serious risk of losing their right to act as company auditors . |
| 29 | Sean asked Noreen to act as hostess now that Maria , at Canon Paddy 's insistence , was at school in a convent at Baltimore . |
| 30 | Her turn to act as hostess came up a month after Nora had returned to Northumberland . |