Example sentences of "can [vb infin] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Catherine Eaton said : ‘ I would hope Frank Field can stay as MP . |
| 2 | This ‘ withdrawal ’ — which can be explained as a collective , dignified attempt not to have any truck with the enterprise except on one 's own terms — which an outsider can describe as apathy or schizoid withdrawal — has far-reaching political consequences . |
| 3 | The research consists of different methodological phases , which we can describe as collection , classification , analysis and interpretation . |
| 4 | 9.2.1 A firm or company can act as expert |
| 5 | The ease with which this theft was carried out and the incompetent way in which it was investigated makes one wonder if America is not secretly pleased that Israel has become a nuclear power in the Middle East so that it can act as tripwire in any conflict . |
| 6 | It is convenient that , in addition to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence , the Cabinet should include at least one , and preferably two , Ministers without Departmental duties who can act as Chairman of Standing Committees . |
| 7 | Someone who can act as bodyguard and chauffeur for the next two days . |
| 8 | Without the devil or demons being involved , the ouija board can act as stageprop to inspire the subconscious of the weak-minded and susceptible . |
| 9 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
| 10 | A weakly verifiable statement is not itself strongly verifiable , but is confirmable or disconfirmable by appeal to other statements which are conclusively verifiable ; that is , strongly verifiable statements can count as evidence for or against it . |
| 11 | Should an individual wish to take an S/NVQ who already has a qualification relating to the funeral service , that qualification will not give direct credit exemption but can count as evidence of competence . |
| 12 | That 's the kind of thing you can use as proof of ownership . |
| 13 | I mean , if we take this as a game , as you rightly describe it , he only takes these people from th in the first place , to have hostages that he can use as bargaining chips later . |
| 14 | Dr O'Sullivan , who lives in Chester , has built up a collection of 1,700 cartoons he can use as part of his occupational health treatment . |
| 15 | Sales promotions embrace a variety of techniques that organisations can use as part of their total marketing effort . |
| 16 | Show you can work as part of a team |
| 17 | I can work as part of a team |
| 18 | It shows that you are responsible , committed and can work as part of a team . |
| 19 | A different or ‘ variant issue ’ can occur as part of the first edition when , after some copies have already been published , some alteration is made and even another title-page substituted . |
| 20 | With midfielder John Gannon passing a test on a calf strain , manager Dave Bassett has no injury worries against a QPR side he believes can emerge as title dark horses . |
| 21 | Lacan has had a tendency to privilege the linguistic signs but other psychoanalysts such as Jean Laplanche argue that visual and other sensory forms of communication can function as part of a language system . |
| 22 | This ‘ molecular bridging ’ approach was successful ( but inefficient ) when viral particles were coupled to human MHC class I and class II antigens 27 , but not to the human transferrin receptor 28 , and suggests that only a limited number of cell surface antigens can function as surrogate receptors for MoMLV particles . |
| 23 | One , we 're going to look at why well trained staff are , are so important to the C U , secondly we 're going to look at things responsibility training is and lastly we want to look at a systematic approach that you can take as training . |
| 24 | Well you got you got three months from the date of termination which you can take as effect from the twenty second of June to make a claim to the industrial tribunal . |
| 25 | Giving marks for written work can help the student to assess how well he is doing and can serve as reinforcement ( either because good marks tell him he is making satisfactory progress or because poor marks will tell him he must make a grater effort ) . |
| 26 | However , despite this disappointing state of affairs , we identified some encouraging developments in several countries that can serve as guide posts to more appropriate and effective development and deployment of professional and paraprofessional resources . |
| 27 | In the twentieth century er the president who did most to , to develop the office further was , was Franklin Roosevelt , Theodore 's cousin er and Franklin Roosevelt , who became president in , in the nineteen thirties and the time of the great depression , and remained president for , till nineteen forty five so He was president for thirteen years er and his political opponents were so upset by this that they actually amended the constitution afterwards to prevent any future president from serving more than two terms of as president , so eight years is the maximum that anyone can serve as president . |
| 28 | For it is the company and the company alone which can stand as proxy for the underlying clients , its stakeholders ( and in particular the shareholders , who are the prime stakeholders ) . |
| 29 | The aim of these schemes is to place individuals , usually on a permanent basis , as lodgers with a landlady or family , where they can live as family , participating in home activities as much as possible . |
| 30 | This can come as surprise to Christians who have grown up in homes where the expression of anger was frowned upon as being unworthy and sinful . |