Example sentences of "it could [verb] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the DNA-dependent phosphorylation of Jun-Core in crude nuclear extracts , we were interested to determine whether it could serve as a substrate for the DNA-PK . |
| 2 | It could serve as a model for all the great industrial centres in France . |
| 3 | The worst possible condition that can be envisaged is one in which there is an expert in the plant aiming to do the maximum possible damage and aware of the indications of his actions which are transmitted to the operator — this is not quite science-fiction , it could happen as a form of sabotage , . |
| 4 | The young academic coolly eyed the embattled farmer and , commenting upon the destruction wrought upon the fen , looked forward to its return to wilderness after the war , so that it could act as a buffer for the nature reserve of Wicken Fen against the farmed land : |
| 5 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
| 6 | In this sense it could act as a model for ‘ non-aligned naval support ’ for the USSR . |