Example sentences of "can serve [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that does not mean that the particular institutional arrangements of a particular society ( namely that which provides the normal context for the use of modern English ) can serve as a paradigm for all others . |
| 2 | When a man achieves his highest reality he can serve as a fantasy for another man ; and in a frightening Genetic turnabout , both then become equal . |
| 3 | Meal times can serve as a focus for certain social activities ; consider , for example , the ‘ Sunday roast ’ , the wining-and-dining of lovers , and even the ‘ working breakfast ’ . |
| 4 | An airfield that can serve as a focus for , and a monument to , an era of aviation long gone . |
| 5 | This is crucial for large-scale societies such as nation-states which , by virtue of their size , demand some concretized form such as a monument which can serve as a focus for the populace 's identification with the state . |
| 6 | Leadership provides organizational values which can serve as a basis for the development of mutual trust and commitment . |
| 7 | In this way , contracts can serve as a basis for individualised instruction . |
| 8 | Theoretically , it can serve as a source of ideas and insights which are of potential relevance for the formulation of principles : ideas emerging from disciplines devoted to the study of language and learning which might bear upon the definition of language as subject . |
| 9 | The library can serve as a laboratory for practice in the skills of using an organized collection , through the use of bibliographies and catalogues , the understanding of the classification scheme , and the proper consultation of works of reference such as encyclopaedias and atlases. 3 . |
| 10 | Stewart was a versatile artist ; painting was his lifelong passion and his pictures can serve as a guide to his career . |
| 11 | Indeed the headings of budget estimates can serve as a guide to the content of both sections of the supporting statement . |
| 12 | They can serve as a guide to what was agreed , and we now need to work on the detail . |
| 13 | There is literally nothing of an official nature which can serve as a guide to possible fluctuations in the intervening years . |
| 14 | Conflict — as the Grants slowly realized — is not a matter of words alone ; actions too can serve as a trigger for a negative response . |
| 15 | If the mechanisms which Kandel has uncovered for the short-term processes of habituation and sensitization can serve as a model for short-term memory , what have they to say about long-term memory ? |