Example sentences of "[noun prp] to act [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The review fleet will consist mainly of frigates and destroyers and the Novy hopes that HMS Ark Royal will have returned from the Adriatic to act as flagship . |
| 2 | Local centres , professionally staffed , were set up in many LEAs to act as focuses for the dissemination of each project 's materials . |
| 3 | Sixty volunteers gave up their Saturday to act as guides so that everyone could tour the factory and be given explanations of the many processes involved . |
| 4 | The Chancellor was to be elected by a majority of the Bundestag to act as the head of the executive , and could only be removed from office by a ‘ constructive vote of no confidence ’ : that is , if the Bundestag voted a Chancellor out , they also had to put forward an alternative to replace him . |
| 5 | At the end of 1252 , however , Geoffrey of Langley was relieved of his Forest office , and was sent to Scotland to act as counsellor to Henry III 's daughter Margaret , Queen of Scotland . |
| 6 | A curator bonis , an administrator appointed by a court in Scotland to act for an incapacitated person , may open a Tessa on behalf of an incapacitated person provided that person is aged 18 or over . |
| 7 | Together with Gould 's uncle and a William John Martin of Camden Town , Mr Mitchell and Prince were appointed by Gould to act as his attorneys . |
| 8 | On July 7 the small Hural had been disbanded to make way for the Great Hural to act as the country 's new single-chamber legislative body . |
| 9 | The widening breach between president and vice-president might have solved this problem by freeing Mr Rutskoi to act as their leader . |
| 10 | When Hollywood moguls decided to make a feature film of Gungha Din they brought Sir Robert from Canada to act as technical advisor . |
| 11 | The end of the Cold War has enabled the UN to act with new unity and authority . |
| 12 | Now it was time for our first venture out ; luckily the yard was situated amidst very quiet roads , and my husband John had been loaned a schoolmaster called Paddy to act as escort . |
| 13 | In London , Eden fell sick and Churchill took over the Foreign Officer , He gave final permission for what the British called Operation Boot to proceed , ( To the CIA it was Operation Ajax ) Churchill sent an even stronger message encouraging the Shah to act against Mossadeq . |
| 14 | Eventually he stopped at the window-seat and sat down by Elisabeth : ‘ He says we should ask Fru Gertlinger and Fru Børre to act as caretakers of the houses on the usual terms until further notice . |
| 15 | This was influenced by Oman 's wish for the GCC to act as a military alliance in conjunction with the West against a perceived Soviet threat . |
| 16 | Although references to the presence of black people are available from the Roman period onward , especially in the early sixteenth century , the most famous of the early documented references is the arrival in 1555 of a group of five Africans , brought here by a merchant to be taught English so that they could return to Africa to act as interpreters for British traders . |
| 17 | When Harold Wilson put in Lord Hill of Luton to act as chairman of the BBC ( a Conservative who , as head of the Independent Television Authority had ‘ made sure that their treatment of news and current affairs does not offend the Establishment ’ , in the view of Richard Crossman ) , he remarked , ‘ Charlie Hill has already cleaned up ITV and he 'll do the same to the BBC now I 'm appointing him chairman . ’ |
| 18 | So he knew that if he instructed Marshalls to act for him they would charge him their normal fees for their work . |
| 19 | A few days later Terry 's brother asked Mary to act as stand-in pianist for three months at the local Baptist church where he was a member . |
| 20 | This refers to the decision of the NATO countries in December 1979 , when Europe more or less begged the US to act as its protector . |
| 21 | When the crisis broke , Baldwin showed annoyance at having his holiday in France interrupted , and deputed Chamberlain to act for him , giving him full powers but no instructions . |
| 22 | In February 1943 he despatched Jean Monnet to Algiers to act as his personal envoy to Giraud . |
| 23 | Mr McIntyre visited Ottawa to act as consultant to the Canadian Co-operative Preservation Project , working on the National Preservation Policy and Strategy for Canadian libraries . |
| 24 | it is clear from the statement of claim that the er plaintiffs retained the defendants from about the ninth of September to act in relation to the purchase of this wine bar which was then known as er the plaintiffs were obtaining finance from the National Westminster Bank in order to purchase this business and the plaintiff Mr had been engaged in long standing discussions with his bank from the earlier part of nineteen eighty five with a view to er agreeing financing facilities for the purchase of the various opportunities that preven present themselves and er he will say and that he makes clear in his witness statement erm that he certainly had understood that from these negotiations the National Westminster Bank were prepared to provide the financing that he required to run this business . |
| 25 | This is not , perhaps , the best year for Britain to act as host to open the series , for the entry tomorrow is clearly affected by Commonwealth Games training schedules as well as the fact that the English Cross Country Union has not found a sponsor who can provide the money for trust funds that might have enticed more prominent athletes . |
| 26 | Commenting on the letter , Bishop Kelly said that now was the time for Britain to act in support of a world free from the threat of nuclear weapons . |
| 27 | In 1988 UMF won a court order to stay the receivership and asked PW to act as monitor . |
| 28 | It was this ‘ nature ’ that caused Nathan to act as the factory supervisor — ‘ a good guy ’ so far as the workers were concerned ; and allowed Horace the seniority , as ‘ a front-office man . ’ |
| 29 | A more likely explanation for the slump can be found in the shaky financial structure of the club , which made it hard for Chapman to act with any confidence . |
| 30 | He also managed to secure the transfer of Mike Sadler from the LRDG to act as chief navigator . |