Example sentences of "to act [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheet foam is often laid over the main biological media to act as a primary or secondary pre-filter . |
| 2 | She argues it is not the council 's job to act as a censor and people who are likely to be offended do not have to see the exhibition . |
| 3 | Studies on the enforcement of laws prohibiting certain corporate activities in America ( McCormick 1977 ; Seymour 1973 ) , Canada ( Goff and Reasons 1978 ; Snider 1978 ) , and England ( Carson 1970 ) all suggest that even in that minority of cases where criminalization occurs , the legal sanctions imposed fail to act as a deterrent because they are trifling fines rather than imprisonment and normally are directed at smaller , relatively less victimizing , corporations . |
| 4 | The surface of the tablet can be programmed to act as a menu that selects standard options from the program so that the keyboard need only be used for selecting the main functions . |
| 5 | The surface of the tablet can also be programmed to act as a menu that selects standard options from the program so that the keyboard need only be used for selecting major functions or entering text . |
| 6 | By getting a Sponsor , one of whose functions may be to act as a mirror and reflect back the attitudes and behaviour of the sufferer , helping him or her to gain insight into self and establish goals for further improvement in recovery through guidance on the 12 Steps . |
| 7 | It proved a remarkable race for Naali who had been paid by the promoters to act as a pacemaker and drop out at the halfway stage . |
| 8 | ‘ But I 'm willing to act as a spokesman if you feel one is needed . ’ |
| 9 | The UK Forum on Young People and Gambling aims to act as a co-ordination and information centre , and to provide counselling and advice to youngsters with gambling problems — mainly with fruit machines . |
| 10 | A further level of complexity to hepatocyte-matrix interaction results from the propensity of the matrix to act as a reservoir and presenter of cell growth factors and cytokines . |
| 11 | We have enlisted the help of a musician to act as a guinea-pig and to test the available music software and hardware . |
| 12 | As temperature decreases with height in the troposphere ( reaching -40 to -80 °C at the tropopause ) , the effect of a warm stratosphere is to act as a ceiling or lid to vertical motion in the troposphere — that is , convective processes which produce clouds and precipitation are contained within the troposphere . |
| 13 | This has two purposes , firstly to illustrate the above assertion about the pervasiveness of layering and secondly to act as a reminder that there are important double diffusive flows that do not arise from instability of vertical gradients . |
| 14 | Wrap a piece of paper around the pipe to act as a guide and cut through using gentle strokes . |
| 15 | Thus the role of the coach is not to hand out advice passively but to act as a partner and a catalyst . |
| 16 | And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes . |
| 17 | Feed the sitting tenants to act as a diversion when adding new fish to an aquarium . |
| 18 | Meteorologists have confirmed that , for the first time in years , the prevailing winter winds were easterly , and a navy hydrographer said the surface area of the submerged craft would have been enough to act as a sail and counter the current . |
| 19 | An alternate Director as such shall not ( save as aforesaid ) have power to act as a Director nor shall be deemed to be a Director for the purpose of these Articles . |
| 20 | An alternate Director as such shall not ( save as aforesaid ) have power to act as a Director nor shall be deemed to be a Director for the purpose of these Articles . |
| 21 | Soft leather is glued to one face to act as a seal and a in hole is drilled through the top centre , making it slightly oval with a rattail file . |
| 22 | The suggestion is that the spiral possesses the capacity to move energy from one level to another or from one vibration to another — to act as a channel or interface . |
| 23 | Electoral democracy produces a ready-made machine for minority groups to fight effectively for a share of central resources , once they learn to act as a group and are sufficiently concentrated for electoral purposes . |
| 24 | the issue to be determined ( 8.4 ) ( 1.1 ) ; the expert 's qualifications ( 8.5 ) ( 1.1 ) ; that he is to act as an expert and not as an arbitrator ( 8.6 ) ( 1.3 ) ; how the expert is to be appointed ( 8.7 ) ( 1.1 ) ; that the decision will be final and binding ( 8.8 ) ( 1.3 ) ; the due date for payment of the amount determined ( 8.9 ) ( 1.3 ) ; that the expert has the power to award interest ( 8.10 ) ( 1.3 ) ; provision for interest to run for late payment of the amount determined ( 8.11 ) ( 1.4 ) ( sometimes found elsewhere in the agreement ) ; and how the expert is to be paid ( 8.12 ) ( 1.3 ) . |
| 25 | 8.6 To act as an expert and not as an arbitrator |
| 26 | The most commonly encountered wording is that the referee is to act as an expert and not as an arbitrator . |
| 27 | In Palacath Ltd v Flanagan [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 161 , the terms of a lease stated that the rent reviewer was to act as an expert and not as an arbitrator . |
| 28 | In the meantime , it is clear that many judges consider that the Lord Chancellor 's Department has ceased to act as an intermediary or ‘ hinge ’ between themselves and the executive Government and has become as much a part of the governmental machinery as any other Department of State . |
| 29 | It shall be the duty of every professor to act as an examiner or assessor as and when requested to do so by a nominating committee or other competent body unless he can show reasonable cause to the satisfaction of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors why on a particular occasion he should not do so . |
| 30 | DeFries had an idea that to be a star you had to act like a star so everything was first class . |