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 ) ] . |