Example sentences of "has acted [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has acted as a consultant to both the International Tennis Federation and the South American Tennis Confederation and was instrumental in helping to develop women 's tennis throughout Latin America before taking on the role of spokesperson for Tennis Interlink . |
| 2 | Although the recent exodus has acted as a temporary safety valve , there is evidence that the more politically minded opponents of the present regime have stayed behind , knowing that reforms can not be indefinitely postponed . |
| 3 | There is also uncertainty surrounding the role of David Murray , the Rangers football club chairman , who has acted as a middle man in the negotiations but who has denied he has any financial interest in the takeover . |
| 4 | The participatory nature of the project has since been copied by other groups in different parts of the USA and many of the original participants have helped to encourage and train new people in other areas of their own states to find out more about ownership patterns in their home areas Highlander has responded to calls from other groups , and has acted as a clearing house for information and to make connections between interested parties . |
| 5 | Since then he has been involved in two research projects on older workers , and has acted as a consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on early retirement policies . |
| 6 | It summarises post-Carboniferous structural form although the London-Brabant Massif has acted as a positive structural feature at least from early Palaeozoic times . |
| 7 | The firm has acted as a clearing house for information on plantations , charcoal and gasifiers for years . |
| 8 | Mr Watt , who is a specialist in insolvency , investigations and audit work , was an assessor to the Bingham Inquiry and has acted as a Department of Trade and Industry inspector on a number of investigations , including those into Alexander Howden and Guinness . |
| 9 | To mix the metaphor , Western trade has been a sedative , not a tonic ; it has acted as a brake on reform , not a stimulant . |
| 10 | I would contend that the scapegoating of the education system , in general , and of certain local authorities , in particular , has acted as a diversionary tactic for the inadequacies of central government responses to the funding of the state education system , their failure to stem the spiralling decline in teachers ' morale and the pitiful attempt to provide real job opportunities for school leavers . |
| 11 | Kwik Save 's success has acted as a magnet to continental European discounters : ‘ Three years ago there was only really Kwik Save , ’ says Henrik Gundelach who is in charge of Netto 's British business . |
| 12 | For these three groups , then , their previous drug use has acted as a ‘ gateway ’ to further drug use . |
| 13 | If this perspective is adopted , environmentalists ought perhaps to be grateful for the fact that the vast majority of farmers are not more economically rational when they come to organize the husbandry of their farms and that the inertia introduced by the historical pattern of landownership and farm structure in this country has acted as a brake on landscape change . |
| 14 | Fundholding has acted as a catalyst for change in Britain 's general practice community — the ultimate outcome of the experiment remains to be seen . |
| 15 | Our lack of a regional strategy has acted as a brake on our economic development and , in the future , it will be a barrier to competing in the single market . |
| 16 | The President is assisted by a Prime Minister and a Cabinet composed of representatives of a number of political parties ; although the parties continue to exist , political activity is banned , and elections to the National Resistance Council ( NRC — hitherto comprising 98 appointed members ) were conducted on a non-party basis in February 1989 [ see p. 36455 ] , since when the NRC , now consisting of 210 elected and 68 presidentially appointed members , has acted as a legislative body for the interim period until a new constitution is framed . |
| 17 | In recent years members of the department have been engaged in research on anti-discrimination law , commissioned by the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights in Northern Ireland , and Professor Munro has acted as a consultant to the European Parliament , while Mr Walker is participating in a project on the Policing Implications of European Co-operation , funded by the E.S.R.C . |
| 18 | Firstly to our Current Master Fellow , , who gave me my initial tuition in embalming , but more than that has acted as a mentor throughout my career , for that I am forever grateful . |
| 19 | The success of the pilot year of the Student Tutoring Scheme coupled with the interest shown in Enterprise Studentships has acted as a launchpad for Student Enterprise within Napier . |
| 20 | The clinic has acted as a strong focus for slum living mothers to campaign for improved conditions in their surroundings . |
| 21 | Dr de Klerk , who has acted as an adviser to the anti-apartheid Democratic Party , is known to be close to his brother , but politics is rarely on the agenda when they meet . |
| 22 | Unsurprising , perhaps , but in a country that for 40 years has acted like a poodle it is striking to find a Japanese suggesting that it now has the strength of a rottweiler . |
| 23 | The failure of IAEA safeguards , including twice-yearly inspections in Iraq for the pasts 15 years , must lead to the conclusion that the NPT has acted like a cloak of respectability to certain nations which have signed it . |
| 24 | Well it is n't erm specifically in the erm cupboards it 's just erm because I 'm now coping with who has acted like a erm shoemaker shoemaker 's son do all your job I am coping with what he did thirty odd years ago |
| 25 | Similar fact evidence , that is evidence that a person has acted in a similar way in the past or that a similar situation has arisen previously , is admissible in certain circumstances . |