Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] as an " in BNC.

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1 He began the Standard 's Premonitions Bureau to record and date any claims of prophecies , and which would act only as an independent and impartial witness .
2 It is thus tempting to suggest that the same X-box binding complex may act both as an activator and as a repressor .
3 In fact mental experience can be consulted only retrospectively and such experience , as evidence for the existence of mind , can appear only as an introspective report of past events .
4 The three parties fought the elections for the Constitutional Convention as a coalition with a joint manifesto which-emphasised that Northern Ireland should remain indefinitely as an integral part of the United Kingdom and that power would not be shared with Republicans although that was not an objection to Catholics as such .
5 But in some cases the having a different isomer can affect the three dimensional properties in such a way that it will no longer function efficiently as an enzyme as a catalyst to the reaction it 's supposed to catalyse then you start to get problems .
6 Hart exhorts us that ‘ we should not cherish even as an ideal a rule so detailed that no new choices arise at the point of application ’ .6 Unger remarks that ‘ language is no longer credited with the fixidity of categories and the transparent representation of the world that would make formalism plausible in legal reasoning or in ideas about justice ’ .
7 If these collisions occur , gas ions are generated , which will flow freely as an additional current to the plate ( if they are negative ions ) or to the cathode ( if they are positive ions ) .
8 From the words of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State , it is clear that he regards it as vital that King 's Cross should go ahead as an essential part of the entire project .
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