Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] act as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Halifax reckons there is more money to be made from acting as a principal than as an agent . |
| 2 | While the Royal Commission has never been accused of acting as an arm of government , its inquiries are not conducted with the same open-eyed approach to political manipulation as are those of the Select Committees of the House of Lords or House of Commons . |
| 3 | In a small number of cases the JMU 's evidence has been such that the committee has decided the firm should not be registered , or that registration should be granted , but with restrictive conditions ( where , for example , a partner may be precluded from acting as a ‘ responsible individual ’ ) . |
| 4 | ( 7 ) A person shall not be disqualified from acting as a member of a licensing board in relation to any matter by reason only that as a member of a committee constituted under section 47 of this Act he was concerned with the matter in question . |
| 5 | In England , for example , a brewer is disqualified from acting as a licensing justice only in the county or borough in which he is a brewer . |
| 6 | It has been held , however , that a paid secretary of a temperance society , who prepared and managed objections to the granting of specific licences , was disqualified from acting as a member of a court . |
| 7 | A receiver who fails to comply with his reporting obligations can be ordered to do so and , more importantly , he can be disqualified from acting as a receiver or manager . |
| 8 | A declaration should be enclosed for the Charity Trustee to sign saying that s/he has read the constitution , understands her/his responsibilities and that s/he is not disqualified from acting as a Charity Trustee . |
| 9 | Ken himself was called upon to act as a kind of bodyguard for Halliwell — which is only part of the near-farcical side of the relationship between the three of them . |
| 10 | Module 4 demands more specialised or focused activities and the learner is called upon to act as an intermediary for the first time . |
| 11 | On Aug. 27 Dieter Gerhardt , a former commander of the Simonstown naval base , was released from prison where he had been serving a life sentence since 1983 after being convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union [ see p. 32659 ] . |
| 12 | The CAA recently received a communication from the French Director of Civil Aviation advising that a British pilot who was alleged to have infringed height regulations while on a private flight over France was banned from acting as a crew member on any aircraft operating within airspace under French sovereignty for one year — inconvenient for a PPL keen on touring , potentially disastrous for anyone who flies for his living . |