Example sentences of "as [noun sg] for a " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He also acted as auditor for a number of major international joint ventures .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 However , in the case of roll-up funds any gain on realisation counts as income for a UK taxpayer .
7 It served as excuse for a quick survey of the choppy water below .
8 And I 've already been offered a job as buyer for a group of chain stores which have each got a radio department .
9 buying or selling as agent for a client , options , future or contracts for differences unless the transaction is effected with or through and Authorised third party
10 ( 2 ) this rule does not apply where a member of the public deposits money with a solicitor who is acting as agent for a building society or other financial institution and the solicitor has not advised that person as a client as to the disposition of the money .
11 The US Democrat politician and former presidential candidate , the Rev. Jesse Jackson , whose association with this latest hostage drama was undertaken in his role as journalist for a syndicated television programme , accompanied the first group of US women and children who arrived home on Sept. 2 .
12 So — regarding whether or not someone chooses among credit types , or between credit and cash — having a bank account may partly be seen as shorthand for a collection of other characteristics to do with income and social background which may be influential in themselves .
13 Some departments offer opportunities for supervised study that need not necessarily be undertaken as study for a degree or other qualification .
14 Walesa was sworn in as President for a five-year term on Dec. 22 .
15 In elections to the regional parliament of Catalonia on March 15 , Jordi Pujol Soley was returned as president for a fourth term .
16 He retired from medicine in 1930 , although for a brief period during World War II he acted as locum for a Cambridge doctor who had joined up .
17 Salaries had never been comparable with others in the record industry ; the smaller , more agreeable , ‘ cottage industry ’ atmosphere of the company had always been held up as compensation for a parsimonious attitude to wages .
18 We 've also held a conference of a more general kind on the situation of refugees in the United Kingdom , in which a report was produced , that particularly highlighted the legal situation of the refugees , that had quite an impact among international organizations like United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , which has served as basis for a number of proposals to change the present legal regime of refugees in the UK .
19 ‘ Can one use one 's share in a partnership as security for a loan ? ’
20 Any rights in respect of your TESSA may not be assigned and those rights may not be used as security for a loan .
21 In the second the situation is that the debtor has voluntarily parted with the property as security for a loan .
22 Bunn , 46 , of London , is accused of being involved in dishonestly pledging shares as security for a loan from a 35-bank syndicate to the Maxwell Communication Corporation .
23 the borrowing of money for the partnership 's business , or the pledging of partnership property as security for a loan ;
24 This occurs for example when goods are pledged as security for a loan .
25 Today 's Law Lords judgement should keep Bridget O'Brien in her house , it will also mean that in future , a wife or partner only agrees to mortgage their home as security for a loan after being fully informed of the possible consequences .
26 Walter Ferrefort , a soldier serving with the Earl of March in Brittany in 1375 , was held in the gaol of St Brieuc as surety for a debt .
27 Anna , neither knowing what she felt , nor what she would like to feel , went to her mother expecting to find Laura in a similar confusion of relief and distress , and treating her loss as occasion for a fine theatrical flourish .
28 Meanwhile , the Arts 2000 scheme trundles on , with a different city or region acting as showcase for a different form each year : Birmingham for music now , East Midlands for dance in 1993 , then Manchester for drama …
29 The observation that paired-pulse facilitation is not altered after the induction of LTP has been interpreted as evidence for a postsynaptic modification in LTP on the assumption that facilitation in the hippocampus is presynaptic , and that an interaction between facilitation and LTP would be expected if the expression of the latter were also presynaptically mediated .
30 As the frequency of such twins , and the sex ratio , are thought to depend partly on the levels of female sex hormone , this has been taken as evidence for a general decline in Western fecundity ( James 1980 , 1982 ) .
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