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

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1 Second , either as a result of his or her independent actions , or acting as a result of an objection by a member of the public , the auditor can seek redress in the courts when an item of account is contrary to the law , or where money has not been brought to account or loss has been incurred through wilful misconduct .
2 The influencer may , for instance , change the purchase objective , or act as a catalyst to render the original purchase motivation more practical or feasible .
3 AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work .
4 Er I 'm also concerned that the services in er even a village that size would be erm overwhelmed by the demands of erm large scale development , but that 's the largest , there are a range of other settlements which are mostly much smaller and even much less able to accommodate , or act as a nucleus for large scale development .
5 No person shall be appointed or re-appointed or act as a Director unless he is a solicitor or a registered foreign lawyer .
6 No person shall be appointed or re-appointed or act as a Director unless he is a solicitor or a registered foreign lawyer .
7 Such a course can then remain relatively isolated , or at least on a par with other courses offered within the same institution on a more traditional basis , or act as a focus for further course development ( through the processes of ‘ accretion ’ or ‘ invention discussed in Chapter 2 ) .
8 And those who do breed often bear the brunt of the responsibility for their children as men often fail to support their children or act as a role model .
9 From now on he either fought on the French side or acted as a neutral between the parties .
10 Pennycuick J. found that there was no implied request for any service or promise of service [ for example , to use his best endeavours to persuade the bank to sell at £100,000 or to act as a go-between — cf. the putting in touch with X in British Bank for Foreign Trade v. Novinex ( above , p. 94 ) ] .
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