Example sentences of "be [to-vb] as [noun sg] " 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 | If you are to succeed as Chairman you must be well versed in what the committee 's task is supposed to be . |
| 3 | Mr. Belville is after to come to town to settle matters and then to go down to her where they are to live as man and wife . |
| 4 | In his will he left £12 to be given to twelve old maids who were to act as pall bearers . |
| 5 | However , if the GPs were to act as Health Maintenance Organizations ( HMOs ) and have a budget to cover the total care for their patients , a Type I system would give them considerable freedom of referral , but would not necessarily increase the patients ' freedom . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Therefore , deduct a fraction from your finished length measurement unless the curtains are to act as draught excluders . |
| 8 | Gerry Turvey is to retire as director general of the Freight Transport Association in October 11 , his 59th birthday . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His latest appointment with the firm is to work as service manager for the whole of South Africa . |
| 11 | Stallion is to mare as ram is to ewe . |
| 12 | Ewe is to mare as ram is to stallion . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If the truth of this presupposition were doubted , it could be established by reference to actual practice : to the way in which courts identify what is to count as law , and to the general acceptance of or acquiescence in these identifications … |
| 15 | First , all societies develop their own ideas as to what is to count as rationality . |
| 16 | There will be family backing — no doubt the McTavish branch will be muscling in on the act , if Deirdre is to act as captain . |
| 17 | On more than one occasion the courts have stated that the procedure is investigatory and that the role of the adjudication officer is to act as amicus curiae ( friend of the court ) assisting the tribunal in its investigation of the claim ( R v. |
| 18 | MADONNA 'S backing singer Niki Harris is to star as jazz singer Billie Holiday . |
| 19 | We drank tea , and very often I would arrive some five to ten minutes earlier than the appointed time , so the maid would tell me that I was to wait as madame was still resting . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The bell continued to hang there , the rope passing through apertures in the ceilings of the top , first and ground floors into a poky cell which was to double as cloakroom and bellringer 's room . |
| 22 | The rump of Die-hard support around the Boswell publishing concerns was to survive as part of an underground tradition . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Chaplain had been so injured in combat that his best continuing contribution to his chapter was to act as escort and religious awakener to young new recruits . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Abingdon factory was to close as part of cutbacks being made by British Leyland . |