Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] serve as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If diplomacy is to function in war , then the Armed Forces must also serve as a tool of policy in time and peace . |
| 2 | Sir : Clive Fewins 's article ( Weekend , 7 October ) rightly praised the excellent work of the Redundant Churches Fund , but it should also serve as a reminder that there is still no Redundant Chapels Fund to conserve some of the best examples of Non-Conformist buildings , many of which are in imminent danger of demolition or drastic alteration . |
| 3 | It should also serve as a warning against using the concept of social class in a crude explanatory manner . |
| 4 | However , a definition of the current state of understanding and uncertainty should also serve as a diagnosis to guide future research . |
| 5 | The Buid and Semai examples should also serve as a caution against theories about violence and aggression which treat them as typically involving a contest between two balanced opponents competing for access to a scarce resource . |
| 6 | It was seen as an unveiled hint of royal displeasure at Scots separatists ( the elaborate investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales , at a time when Welsh nationalism was acquiring an increasingly strident tone , had been intended to have a similar impact ) but it might also serve as a text for all the concerns of the monarchy . |
| 7 | In some cases gold might even serve as an alloy itself . |
| 8 | Ackroyd warns us not to jump to a conflation here , but he is intrigued by the coincidence , and it might almost serve as an emblem of his concern throughout the biography with the connection between poetry and feigning , and with the potency of parody . |
| 9 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 10 | The paper draws on a model which , while not held up as the definitive approach , could nevertheless serve as a working document for schools wrestling with the realities of moving towards an integrated structure . |
| 11 | To focus potentially massive public attention , these experimental matches could also serve as a trial base for TV assistance for umpires in run-outs and stumpings. — ED . |
| 12 | Firstly , it meant access to library housekeeping circulation files designed primarily for staff use which could also serve as a rudimentary catalogue for the library user . |
| 13 | Yet in geographical and historical terms Thun could almost serve as the model of a Mittelland town . |
| 14 | These could then serve as the basis for further testing , allowing the best candidate for a true representation to emerge . |
| 15 | One among these types of network , freemasonry , served an even more important purpose in certain countries , notably Roman Catholic Latin ones , for it could actually serve as the ideological cement for the liberal bourgeoisie in its political dimension , or indeed , as in Italy , as virtually the only permanent and national organisation of the class . |
| 16 | Under such a concept the ‘ core ’ is the central base for professional staff who are engaged in the rehabilitation and personal development of individuals living in the homes ; it may also serve as a training base for staff , a research base for the evaluation and monitoring of the service and a place where the residential care staff meet to exchange ideas . |
| 17 | They may also serve as a useful basis for all children for heuristic strategies , that is , in producing the answers to unknown facts from known ones , for example 8+7= ( 7+7 ) +1 . |
| 18 | In addition to the commercially available collections of precedents , many solicitors ' offices have their own in-house standard precedent , and the terms of other businesses in the same line as the client may also serve as a source of ideas . |
| 19 | There is an extensive list of references so that the paper may also serve as an introduction to the literature about these animals . |
| 20 | It may also serve as an additional stimulus to develop non-addictive pain-killers . |
| 21 | The approach may well serve as a model for similar projects in other US conurbations . |
| 22 | They may relate to one institution ( a primary school ) or to several ( linking a number of primary schools to the neighbourhood secondary school ) , they may relate to primary age children within a community centre or youth club , they may simply serve as a bridge between local pre-school playgroups and the schools which the pre-school children will eventually attend . |
| 23 | Though any such checklists may be viewed by busy teachers as a necessary evil rather than a welcomed virtue , nonetheless , it may frequently serve as a useful catalyst to further and more detailed thought on the matter . |
| 24 | The following day he ruled out , however , the idea of Baker going on to Baghdad as suggested by Iraq , apparently because of his belief that a series of meetings would only serve as a pretext for Iraq to delay any withdrawal from Kuwait . |
| 25 | To offer a means of institutionalizing their relationships ( which , if given the opportunity , would perhaps be as stable as the average ‘ normal ’ modern marriage ) , thereby guaranteeing some rights of continued support between the parties , would thus serve as a valuable method of ameliorating a particular social ill . |
| 26 | Purists may not be too keen on the ‘ big band ’ approach , but these are nonetheless vital and energetic performances which convey much enthusiasm , and would probably serve as a more palatable introduction to seventeenth and eighteenth century music for the newcomer than some of the odder products of the ‘ authentic ’ movement . |
| 27 | The plants at Napo would then serve as a ‘ gene bank ’ from which to send material to breeders anywhere in the world . |
| 28 | Each island overrun in this way would then serve as a springboard for attack on the next objective . |
| 29 | The reporter gene would then serve as a marker of when the chromatin became ‘ open ’ to regulatory and transcription factors . |
| 30 | It may sometimes serve as a companion to the present volume . |