Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ordinary and natural meaning of ‘ appropriate ’ is to take for oneself , or to treat as one 's own , property which belongs to someone else . |
| 2 | Consequently in 1510 these were bracketed with squires of the body and other court officers , while the 1533 act specifies in addition esquires or gentlemen eligible for knighthood or to serve as knights of the shire . |
| 3 | I 'd now like to talk about places where stamps can be bought , whether for your own collection or to give as gifts . |
| 4 | But they were very difficult to prove , or to use as the basis of generalization , because of the difficulty of isolating TV as a causal factor . |
| 5 | With its dramatic Alpine backdrop Munich is a fabulous city in which to either enjoy a GTF City Break , or to use as a base for exploring the surrounding beauty of Bavaria . |
| 6 | On the other hand , you may want something sturdy enough to take a growing baby on frequent weekends away , or to double as a playpen on trips to friends , which will make your investment really worthwhile . |
| 7 | They often require an article belonging to the missing person to aid them , or to act as a ‘ prop ’ for their psychic powers . |
| 8 | With the separation of political power from the family , women were less able to influence the process of political recruitment or to act as substitutes for their men . |
| 9 | The true value of a picture lies in its ability to illustrate a point or to act as an eye-catcher both to the editor and subsequently to the reader . |
| 10 | Solicitors ( subject to very limited exceptions ) alone have the right to brief counsel , who will be called in as the occasion demands to give specialist advice , to draft documents or to act as advocate in the higher courts . |
| 11 | 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 ) ] . |
| 12 | Most were intended to be exulting or to act as aids to the recognition of individual figures . |
| 13 | Members of the House of Lords appear on the Electoral Register for local and European electoral purposes only : they are allowed neither to vote in parliamentary elections nor to serve as Members of Parliament . |
| 14 | The function of the pronoun , then , is neither to name nor to act as a substitute for a noun . |
| 15 | He was taken under the paternal wing of MGM who launched him in 1942 in tiny roles in prestige films like Mrs Miniver and Random Harvest , finally allowing him his first major role in 1945 in Son of Lassie , and to blossom as a leading man opposite leading ladies such as Judy Garland ( Easter Parade ) , June Allyson ( Two Sisters from Boston ) , and Elizabeth Taylor ( Little Women ) . |
| 16 | a system designed for a specific user and to work as an integrated unit . |
| 17 | He returned to London to run a picture agency and to work as a photojournalist . |
| 18 | These provisions include Article 8b(1) , to the effect that ‘ Every citizen of the Union residing in a Member State of which he is not a national shall have the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the Member State in which he resides , under the same conditions as nationals of that State ’ , which has caused considerable debate in some Member States . |
| 19 | Then , it states that every citizen of the union erm residing in a member state shall have the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the member state in which he resides under the same conditions as nationals of that state and that the right shall , not may , but shall be exercised er before the thirty first of December nineteen ninety four by the council acting unanimously on the proposal from the commission and after consulting the European parliament which arrangements may provide the derogations where warranted by problems specific to a member state . |
| 20 | Because erm the er the purpose of these regulations which er my old friend has just eluded to and I s I I and I have myself , is to extend to the citizens of other member states of the European union who are resident here , the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in the elections to the European parliament . |
| 21 | Article eight B two provides that citizens of the union shall have the right to vote and to stand as candidates in elections to the European parliament . |
| 22 | The programmes of study give greater emphasis to oral communication , to planned cooperative work amongst pupils and to talk as a medium of learning than has perhaps generally been given in the past . |
| 23 | However , in order to make meaningful comparisons more is needed than merely comparative information , since within any field of study theory is necessary both to provide a framework for the systematic analysis and accumulation of the existing stock of knowledge and to serve as a guide for the selection of research problems . |
| 24 | The new part , code-named T5 , is expected to deliver more than 200 SPECint and 300 SPECfp and to serve as the heart of the powerful desktop systems running Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Unix operating systems . |
| 25 | The new part , code-named T5 , is expected to deliver more than 200 SPECint and 300 SPECfp and to serve as the heart of the powerful desktop systems running Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Unix operating systems . |
| 26 | In fact , however , its function ‘ was not to represent the workers ’ interests , but to prepare for the seizure of power and to serve as the organizational prototype of a new form of state power . ’ |
| 27 | Swiss researchers would also have been allowed to join programme committees and to serve as project leaders on individual projects . |
| 28 | It seems as if each major branch of geomorphology had at least one new textbook which served to disseminate techniques and ideas and to serve as a baseline from which new research and teaching could develop . |
| 29 | This point was underlined in the Imperial address , in which Akihito vowed to observe the Constitution and to serve as the " symbol of the state and the unity of the people " as stipulated by the Constitution . |
| 30 | Objectives : to fight malnutrition and hunger and to serve as a co-ordinating agency for development programmes in the whole range of food and agriculture , including forestry and fisheries . |