Example sentences of "as [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 2 | The federation shall act as guarantor for the liabilities of the Special Fund . |
| 3 | Inspection of a copy of the syllabus for Salters ' A-level chemistry ( obtainable from the Oxford and Cambridge Examinations Board ) will demonstrate how appropriate the course is as preparation for a chemistry degree . |
| 4 | He scored 102 not out , his third ton of the tour , as India decided to use the fourth and final day of the match as preparation for the second Test , which gets under way in Johannesburg on Thursday . |
| 5 | Valerie Schwartz had already , with her father Georges , a doctor from Geneva , climbed the Breithorn and Mont Blanc du Tacul as preparation for the big day . |
| 6 | Fortunately we were able to use a FIS race , in Pitztal , Austria , as preparation for the World Cup season . |
| 7 | Whig lawyers , such as Treby and Somers , served as counsel for the defence in the bishops ' trial , a curious development considering the mutual antipathy between bishops and Whigs during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 8 | I shall continue as chairman for the present , and shall continue to edit the newsletter . |
| 9 | Summerill is staying on as chairman for the time being . |
| 10 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |
| 11 | The window was barred on the outside but this did not seem unreasonable as there was only one thin wall of barbed wire as defence for the whole camp . |
| 12 | He also acted as auditor for a number of major international joint ventures . |
| 13 | To re-appoint Miss Dorothea Vaughan as auditor for the coming year . |
| 14 | Whitaker justified his position as favourite for the Toyota British Horsemaster by collecting the £3,300 cheque — but only after Marie Edgar had thrown away her chance . |
| 15 | The reformers , however , led by an eloquent aristocrat , Nicolas Sartorius , found common ground , such as enthusiasm for the Maastricht treaty , with some of the non-Communist members of the United Left , notably the leader of the PASOC , Pablo Castellano , and a witty feminist lawyer , Cristina Almeida . |
| 16 | Bright stockings , and long hair , and trousers in untrouserlike colours like pink and lemon yellow , velvet jackets , loud voices and laughter , warned the staider citizens of Shorehaven that actors had arrived in their midst , an exotic flock of migrant birds whose fine plumage mocked the grey and tan and black that they had adopted as camouflage for the winter months . |
| 17 | What is instructive in terms of the psychology of science is the willingness with which Kammerer 's detractors were prepared to resort to fraud as an explanation for facts that had been misinterpreted as support for a counter-theory , facts which , at that point , their own theory was insufficiently well developed to account for . |
| 18 | The purpose of an audit mark or stamp on clients ' documents is twofold : it provides evidence that the document has been examined for a particular purpose ( which should be clear from the audit file ) ; and it helps to avoid the document 's being re-presented as support for a duplicate entry . |
| 19 | The Smiths invited Rough Trade stablemates Easterhouse to act as support for the tour . |
| 20 | This can be regarded as support for the view that such meteorites typify much of the material from which the three planets accreted . |
| 21 | One can take this either as evidence of a divine purpose in Creation and the choice of the laws of science or as support for the strong anthropic principle . |
| 22 | Thus if the data satisfy the restrictions implied by equations ( 3.14 ) and ( 3.16 ) it can be taken as support for the rational expectations model of consumption : the observationally equivalent non-rational expectations model is ruled out on theoretical grounds . |
| 23 | The Bridge has two and a half thousand steel wires running through its spans which act as support for the concrete . |
| 24 | A further use for ‘ Ruby Trax ’ on those long , winter evenings might be as catalyst for a ‘ Who The Hell Did This One , Then ? ’ party . |
| 25 | It is possible to provide examples of policy patterns ( such as provision for the disabled ) varying considerably across the country . |
| 26 | However , in the case of roll-up funds any gain on realisation counts as income for a UK taxpayer . |
| 27 | Mike Coote , managing director of ICL 's mid-range systems division cites ‘ tactical ’ reasons such as price-performance for the decision to use HyperSparc , and not any inability on the part of Texas to deliver SuperSparc in sufficient quantities or at suitable performance levels . |
| 28 | In the following year he published An Observer in the Near East , and in 1911–12 returned to journalism as correspondent for the Daily Mirror covering the Balkan war . |
| 29 | ‘ That he 's already got the ransom money here , that it was probably on its way already as payment for the house . |
| 30 | Some seeds are light enough to be blown away but bigger seeds can only be shifted by animals and once again plants produce special food as payment for the job . |