Example sentences of "and [vb infin] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Frank , ’ I said , ‘ if we do n't agree on the running order then surely it is something we should sit down and discuss as a team . ’ |
| 2 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |
| 3 | We all have the ability to speak and act as a parent , an adult or a child : |
| 4 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |
| 5 | To survive and succeed as a student , you 'll need to develop your own pattern of regular activity , within which you can feel secure and become an effective student , leaving yourself sufficient freedom to be spontaneous , to be yourself . |
| 6 | To survive and succeed as a student you need to discover your own personal identity and your own ways of working — but you should also discover and enjoy the comradeship of your fellow students . |
| 7 | One is to minimize the significance of possible semantic differences between variants , and the other is to acknowledge and use as a foundation for the analysis the interrelationships between syntax , semantics and discourse . |
| 8 | The distinction works only in part , at least so far as social work is concerned , but it allows the author to develop and use as a thread through the discussion , the historically gendered nature of the division between the so-called caring professions and professions such as medicine , law , and architecture . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't need to go and work as a librarian abroad , for God 's sake . |
| 10 | He 's a very , very emotional , unstable dictator , who 's just been determined somehow to exploit his position geographically , in the Middle East , to try and emerge as a sort of mini superpower , and to that end , he 's done a lot of terrible things , of which the invasion of Kuwait was really only one . |
| 11 | A member of a board , although not affected by one of the statutory disqualifications above mentioned , may be so closely associated with the subject-matter of the proceedings as to make it improper that he should act and vote as a member of the board in connection with them . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) An alternate Director shall ( except when absent from the United Kingdom ) be entitled to receive notice of meetings of the Directors and shall be entitled to attend and vote as a Director at any such meeting at which the Director appointing him is personally present and generally at such meeting to perform all functions of his appointor as a Director and for the purpose of the proceedings at such meeting the provisions of these Articles shall apply as if he were a Director . |
| 13 | ( 3 ) An alternate Director shall ( except when absent from the United Kingdom ) be entitled to receive notice of meetings of the Directors and shall be entitled to attend and vote as a Director at any such meeting at which the Director appointing him is personally present and generally at such meeting to perform all functions of his appointor as a Director and for the purpose of the proceedings at such meeting the provisions of these Articles shall apply as if he were a Director . |
| 14 | It would n't last , because it never did , and the end of October might even bring the first tentative snows of winter — but until then people would continue to be caught out , and to shiver and sweat as a penance for their gullibility . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to grow and develop as a person in areas that I have not explored yet . |
| 16 | It must be said , however , that this emerging new image for consultancies has been helped enormously by the fact that these quoted consultancies are substantially based in financial public relations which , of course , the City of London , Merchant Banks , and business interests in general do understand and accept as a legitimate part of their world . |