Example sentences of "be [to-vb] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • If you were to die as the result of an accident the Plan would pay out £40,000 to your estate . |
| 2 | Three Birmingham children 's homes are to close as the council attempts to bolster its foster service . |
| 3 | But if it is to serve as the platform for a conclusion that something else and qualitatively different is required , something to place authority , at least in part , for the conduct of a business owned by others in the hands of employees , then by itself the statement is not strong enough to bear the weight of the proposition . |
| 4 | Save for the case where a Prime Minister is to resign as the result of advanced years , and therefore where speed is not essential and an ordinary party election could take place , the following course of action is proposed to find a new Prime Minister for a continuing government . |
| 5 | Their hope is to succeed as the consolidator of post-Thatcherism after the fourth election win . |
| 6 | The second is to act as the government 's agent , both as its banker and in carrying out monetary policy . |
| 7 | It is clear that er , one of N C V O principle functions is to act as the voice of the voluntary sector . |
| 8 | THE nearest a nurse usually gets to clinical research is to act as the research team — consisting mostly of doctors . |
| 9 | Showmanship was to remain as the hallmark of the movies . |
| 10 | If causes dear to his heart , such as feminism , even figured at all in the mass-circulation papers , it was to serve as the butt for an endless stream of cheap jokes . |
| 11 | Greengate , a greenfield plant opened in 1981 , was to serve as the template for change throughout the company . |
| 12 | The club was to nearly kill the magazine as its losses accumulated , but it also provided a link with the United States which was to snap as the magazine moved towards Little Englandism , or Little Londonism . |
| 13 | The National Health Service , though evidently under-funded , was to survive as the basis of the health-care system of the nation . |
| 14 | It was indeed the attacks in Cartwright 's books which Hooker was to take as the starting point for his defence of the Church . |
| 15 | Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell , the ARC organising team and all those people from Gran Canaria who help the rally each year , boarded the Spanish Navy corvette , Villa de Bilbao , which was to act as the committee boat . |
| 16 | Michael Liley , the Association Director , has pointed out that important changes were in the offing , and it was important to know what was to happen as the change were likely to be found unpleasant in the trade . |