Example sentences of "are [v-ing] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this activity has traditionally been based in the UK , Spain and Germany are now taking the plunge as , Bonelli said , an increasing number of companies and government departments are outsourcing as part of rationalisation or downsizing projects . |
| 2 | So long as the traveller historians and geographers , such as Herodotus and Pliny the Elder , Chau Ju-Kwa and Ibn Batuta , Friar Odoric and Marco Polo , are writing as eye-witness observers , most of what they report is entirely factual and authentic . |
| 3 | ‘ According to him , you are acting as understudy . |
| 4 | Enumerate the points to be made , and state what part of the argument is being left to your junior ( if you are acting as leader ) . |
| 5 | Car firms act over soaring ‘ hot hatch ’ insurance costs Prices of some performance models are plunging as cover becomes almost impossible for the under-25s , writes John Langley |
| 6 | The teams are performing as self managed units although the manager will agree clear objectives with the team . |
| 7 | Firstly , before documents are available which give a general comparison and assessment at one date across an area ( like Domesday Book or a medieval Lay Subsidy ) it is very difficult to know whether all the sites we are comparing as part of our settlement pattern are contemporary . |
| 8 | Nearly 21 per cent of Britons — 11,931,000 — are over 60 in an EC where numbers of elderly are soaring as life expectancy increases . |
| 9 | DOOR-TO-DOOR salesmen are posing as Fire Brigade representatives to sell potentially lethal fire extinguishers , it has been disclosed . |
| 10 | Clearly , the apc 's are all greater than the mpc and are diminishing as income rises . |
| 11 | At present there are less than ten laboratories in Britain that can isolate the organism , and most of these are working as research units rather than as service units prepared to isolate chlamydia as part of the standard diagnostic screening that should be available . |
| 12 | Although there are laboratories in Europe and the United States that can grow chlamydia , again they are working as research rather than service units . |
| 13 | Those who are working as agency or casual workers " involuntarily " , whilst looking for a more permanent job , are also , by definition , not interested in building up long-term relationships with their employers . |