Example sentences of "be [to-vb] as [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further task for the special advisory team will be to act as consultant to teachers who have visually handicapped pupils in their classes . |
| 2 | The key aspects of political activity according to the pluralist group model are : all sections of society are capable of influencing policy , especially if they are formally organized ; policy represents the outcome of bargaining and compromise between groups , the role of the state being to act as arbitrator of disputes . |
| 3 | The circuit 's owners , the exclusive British Racing Drivers ' Club , whose members include Nigel Mansell , Stirling Moss , James Hunt and Jackie Stewart , admit that they need to spend £15-20 million on the track if it is to continue as home of the British Grand Prix . |
| 4 | The Irish Prime Minister , Charles Haughey , is to resign as leader of the Fianna Fail party next week allowing a new leader to be nominated as Premier . |
| 5 | Edward Kirk was to remain as Headmaster at Leeds until his death , and was to see his school grow from a small class of 6 pupils on a half-day basis into a fully-fledged school taking in boarders and day scholars with a roll of over 100 children , with a reputation second to none . |
| 6 | The rump of Die-hard support around the Boswell publishing concerns was to survive as part of an underground tradition . |
| 7 | All my friends and playmates were Indian and , since my father 's job was to act as guardian to a Maharajah some five years older than me , I looked upon Bahadur as an older brother . |
| 8 | Though primarily a commentary on Henry II 's government in England , the Policraticus used the terms of Roman law , princeps for ruler and provincia , province , for the area of his rule ; these suggest that John also intended his book to be relevant to France , the land in which he had been educated and to which he was to return as bishop of Chartres . |
| 9 | The Abingdon factory was to close as part of cutbacks being made by British Leyland . |