The phrase "act as recording" is not entirely correct in standard written English; it would be clearer as "act as a recording." You can use it when describing a function or role that something plays in capturing or documenting information.
Example: "The device will act as a recording of all the conversations during the meeting."
Alternatives: "serve as a recording" or "function as a recording."
He obtained about 6,000 pages of F.B.I. files on Malcolm X through the Freedom of Information Act, as well as records from the Central Intelligence Agency, State Department and New York district attorney's office.
Education records in subgroup 1, series 4, and subgroup 2, series 4, as defined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, as well as employment records in subgroup 1, series 3, and subgroup 2, series 3 are also restricted.
Education records in subgroup 1 (series 2, subseries 1 and 2, and series 7, subseries 1 and 2) and subgroup 2, as defined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, as well as employment records in subgroup 1 (series 3), are also restricted.
A police caution can also act as a record for possible reference in future criminal proceedings.
Not only did these images act as scientific records, but they were also used as public relations tools showing the majesty of the landscape.
The apartment is wonderfully comfortable and a great convenience even though he left Sony more than a decade ago and is now doing a solo act as a record producer and talent manager — and occasionally as a performer.
In a genuinely eclectic and fascinating little documentary, The Bird Fancyer's Delight revealed how in the 18th-century birds were trained to sing specific dance tunes, like waltzes and gavottes, in order to act as avian record players.
The capsule will act as a record of the conservation work that goes into maintaining the mountain, which has had numerous repairs during the last century with the last major work taking place in the 1980s.
It probably gave you a brief and unwelcome flashback to The Cruise, the low-rent 1990s docusoap that existed purely to act as a record of all the times that Jane McDonald would spontaneously burst into a terrible off-kilter showtune the second she realised that a camera was being aimed at her.
