Example sentences of "[noun sg] has acted [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our lack of a regional strategy has acted as a brake on our economic development and , in the future , it will be a barrier to competing in the single market . |
| 2 | Kwik Save 's success has acted as a magnet to continental European discounters : ‘ Three years ago there was only really Kwik Save , ’ says Henrik Gundelach who is in charge of Netto 's British business . |
| 3 | The firm has acted as a clearing house for information on plantations , charcoal and gasifiers for years . |
| 4 | Fundholding has acted as a catalyst for change in Britain 's general practice community — the ultimate outcome of the experiment remains to be seen . |
| 5 | If this perspective is adopted , environmentalists ought perhaps to be grateful for the fact that the vast majority of farmers are not more economically rational when they come to organize the husbandry of their farms and that the inertia introduced by the historical pattern of landownership and farm structure in this country has acted as a brake on landscape change . |