Example sentences of "as [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acting as midwife to the enterprise has been Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios who was assisted by Roberto Valeriani . |
| 2 | In a wider sense , we need to consider the effects of world issues such as damage to the environment by pollution of air , soil and water ; the rapidly diminishing rain forests ; wars , famine , and the nuclear threat . |
| 3 | For his pains in defending Paisley , Boal was fired from his lucrative job as counsel to the Attorney-General . |
| 4 | Those drastic price cuts instituted by Univel Inc last week ( CI No 2,128 ) are being seen as response to the nervousness engendered by Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , the most threatening vapourware ever to descend on the market . |
| 5 | In 1681 Lodwick was elected to membership of the Royal Society , and thereafter frequently acted as auditor to the council . |
| 6 | When he reflected on how age and death laid waste man 's being , and saw a means of interfering with that process , he acted as harbinger to the Age of Science then in its first dawn . |
| 7 | Here is a summary of the service we receive from your bank at present , based on an agreement reached with the manager shortly after I took over as clerk to the Parish Council : |
| 8 | The ‘ Shantih ’ at the poem 's end may be simply a way of stopping , a ‘ formal ending ’ ; or it may be comparable to the exhausted collapse after the destruction at the end of ‘ Gerontion ’ ( Eliot considered ‘ Gerontion ’ as preface to The Waste Land ) . |
| 9 | The NNC , part-owned by the government , acts as agent to the electricity supply industry for the construction of Britain 's nuclear power stations . |
| 10 | Gone are the days when a set of weak states acted as enticement to the invasion of European Russia by outside powers . |
| 11 | The mark-up acts in this respect like an excise tax T x , and the fact that the monopoly profit accrues to entrepreneurs , rather than as revenue to the government , does not make any difference in view of the assumption about the demand side . |
| 12 | Specific policy objectives are set by the government , and put into action by the bank , although the Bank has an important role as adviser to the government on monetary policy matters . |
| 13 | Exactly forty years later , at the age of seventy-four , he was still in post as adviser to the governor of the Bank of England . |
| 14 | Acting as consultant to the Board of Overseas Trade , he worked on the British empire exhibition , Wembley , in 1924 , as a designer of friezes , decorations , and displays . |
| 15 | The legislation is presented in the form of the Media Commission Bill , which Neville D Jayaweera , WACC 's former director of Studies and Planning , helped to draft in his capacity as consultant to the President of the Republic . |
| 16 | Dundee club coach Stewart Harris , the Teamsport co-ordinator for basketball , is taking over from Lawrence Randak as coach to the student side who are preparing for the British Universities group tournament in Bath next week . |
| 17 | From 1867 onwards it became clear that the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne and so a small household was established . |
| 18 | King Henry V of England was recognised by a mad King Charles VI as heir to the throne of France , with the signing of the Treaty of Troyes in 1420 , and Reims passed once again into English control . |
| 19 | Diana is determined not to lose the children but , with William as heir to the throne , the Palace is equally adamant that their upbringing is not left in her hands alone . |
| 20 | In order to have peace and Philip 's support in his bid to be recognized , once and for all , as heir to the throne , it seems that Richard was at long last ready to marry Alice . |
| 21 | As heir to the droit morale and guardian of the Magritte estate , Charly Herscovici explained that ‘ Inheriting this intellectual property makes me responsible for protecting the artist and his work , and ensuring that it is handed down for posterity . |
| 22 | His cousin Samuel was now old enough to join his father and take his place as heir to the business , and the two young men were never compatible . |
| 23 | Many families have continued to attach great importance to the family line , adopting their daughter 's husband or another male as heir to the family name where there is no son to succeed . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , in 1897 he entered the Sarawak service as a cadet to be trained as heir to the raj . |
| 25 | She was recognized by a grand national assembly at Scone as heiress to the throne . |
| 26 | From 1773 Kitchin appears in the Royal Kalendar as hydrographer to the king . |
| 27 | Its functions can be divided into those which are required by its role as banker to the government and those which it performs as banker to the banks . |
| 28 | Its function as banker to the government and to the monetary sector . |
| 29 | It issues notes ; it acts as banker to the government , to the commercial banks , to various overseas central banks and to certain private customers ; it manages the government 's borrowing programme ; it supervises the activities of banks and other financial institutions ; it provides support to prevent banks getting into difficulties ; it operates the government 's monetary and exchange rate policy . |
| 30 | Complementary to its role as banker to the government is the responsibility for administering the public sector debt . |