Example sentences of "as [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They act out their role in a number of scenarios with an actor , such as meeting for the first time , attracting the man 's attention , and putting him off the trail .
2 Encourage all those who act as advocates for the oppressed within our society and who seek to channel political power into the cause of justice for everyone .
3 Twenty healthy white volunteers acted as controls for the intestinal permeability studies .
4 Sixteen patients with the irritable bowel syndrome acted as controls for the 1 1 1 In leukocyte and 5 1 Cr red cell studies .
5 These birds would later peck a dry bead when offered it on test and therefore serve as controls for the methylanthranilate-trained group , for they had not learned to avoid the bead .
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