Example sentences of "acted as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also acted as a central store and clearing house for hops , organising the supply to the brewers . |
| 2 | This , Nuttall remarks , ‘ acted as a red rag . |
| 3 | It is not always possible for low-ranking officers to anticipate the situations which ‘ Action Men ’ need to avoid , and some instances were observed where the aggressive manner of the policeman acted as a form of ‘ amplification of deviance ’ ( Young 1971 ) , transforming a minor situation into ‘ big crime ’ . |
| 4 | A third was entirely concerned with management development and career planning and the fourth acted as a one-man think-tank , whose task was to advise on how ICI 's personnel policies should evolve in future . |
| 5 | A second Israeli who acted as a civilian chief of Gen Noriega 's personal security team , Eliezer Ben Gaitan , took refuge in the papal mission in Panama City with the deposed dictator , and was detained by US troops on Tuesday . |
| 6 | The decision to return to the gold standard , and to operate it , often necessitated the rise of interest rates which acted as a burden upon the exporting industries just as the reflation of the pound had made exporting more difficult . |
| 7 | Off-farm work for the part-time farmer was equally divided — one acted as a farm worker on a neighbouring farm and one was in urban employment . |
| 8 | In later years Barcelona and the region to the north formed part of the kingdom of Arragon , and acted as a buffer against Saracen invasions into the rest of Europe . |
| 9 | . It seemed that he acted as a receiver of stolen goods … |
| 10 | Certainly the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda saw it that way and his long meditation ‘ The Heights of Machu Picchu ’ had ensured that the ancient city acted as a Mecca for all Latin American writers : |
| 11 | In the short run the Palestinian revolution acted as a magnet for those Lebanese , mainly Muslims , who wanted to redefine Lebanon 's identity in terms of pan-Arab nationalism and as a focus of hostility for those , mainly Maronite Christians , who feared just such a process . |
| 12 | The fine clock-tower , together with the famous Peninsula Hotel near by , dominated the Kowloon waterfront , and acted as a powerful Western gateway to China . |
| 13 | Truck after truck was set ablaze and each fire acted as a homing beacon for more enemy aircraft . |
| 14 | She led the way , still chattering , down the long dark corridor which acted as a wind tunnel , and kept the rectory in a state of refrigeration during the winter months . |
| 15 | There was no pretence of archaeological intentions — the subject had n't evolved by then — Pompeii simply acted as a large open pit mine for works of art . |
| 16 | Sir Edward said he considered the association helpful to Headley Down residents in that it acted as a safety valve in times of crisis . |
| 17 | All through the pages of Ramakrishna 's biography appears his gentle humour which often acted as a prelude to his flights of ecstasy . |
| 18 | At club level , his persistent niggling paid off , but at international level , it often acted as a destabilising influence , and may well have led to the premature departure of Willie Ormond as the national team manager . |
| 19 | I was upset because I was proud to play for Scotland but the crowd 's reaction only acted as a spur . |
| 20 | Each committee appointed a member who acted as a ‘ guardian ’ whose main responsibilities were to supervise the working of the indentures , to make monthly visits to the home , and to be ‘ on friendly terms ’ with parents and child . |
| 21 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 22 | The corollary of the latter explanation is that the northwest-southeast anticlinal ridge with a core of Westphalian A strata was not significantly buried in later Westphalian times and acted as a controlling feature on Westphalian sedimentation . |
| 23 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE , the central government department with overall responsibility for local government in England ) was , he says , trapped into the position of being both the advocate of local services within the centre and the guardian of the purse-strings as far as local government was concerned ( in that respect the Secretary of State acted as a sort of ‘ mini chancellor ’ ) ( Rhodes , 1986 , p. 238 ) . |
| 24 | At the same time , cutting acted as a kind of punishment which , because of her sense of worthlessness , Jenny felt she needed . |
| 25 | The rectangular piece of perspex which acted as a windscreen , provided little if any protection from the cold wind which was currently hitting him at sixty miles an hour . |
| 26 | He blames a hospital physician in Britain who acted as a consultant , and the American suppliers , Nuclear Metals Incorporated of Concord , Massachusetts . |
| 27 | Phrenology also acted as a stepping-stone to various social crusades and encouraged women to take a pride in themselves . |
| 28 | It was claimed that closure would affect the local atmosphere since the school acted as a focus of activity yet there was little mention of any economic loss and no fear of any demographic effects . |
| 29 | Robins found that Geiger readings there were halved when taken within a few feet of the ring of stones , as if the ring acted as a form of ‘ shield ’ . |
| 30 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |