Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] as a [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 There is in the University an appreciable number of staff interested in the area , but located in a number of different departments and faculties , and the Centre is intended to serve as a focus for their activities .
2 By applying judgements to the curriculum itself , evaluation by the users of that curriculum can be brought into the classroom , evaluation can be made to serve as a basis for new directions in the process of teaching and learning … it can shape and guide learning and guide decisions within the curriculum process .
3 They are then used to support recommendations concerning the organization of society and personal conduct resting on straight matters of fact , or at least the best available opinion on matters of fact , of the one kind around which clear minded people can expect to rally as a basis for human cooperation .
4 Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International .
5 ( On the formation of the NAR administration in December 1986 Gordon had agreed to serve as a minister for a period of three years . )
6 The good news is that we are still going to see something of as he has agreed to act as a consultant for us .
7 ‘ More importantly the Yarm Road industrial estate is beginning to snowball as a location for hi-tec businesses and facilities . ’
8 However it has an asbestos roof , and would have to double as a store for my petrol mower .
9 So much so that last month saw the formation of a national body for abseilers and rappellers — the British Abseil Association , which aims to act as a focus for those interested solely in abseiling , whether as an adventure activity , competitively or as a sponsored activity for fund raising .
10 But when it is a question of instant recall , your notes must be compiled to act as a memory-trigger for the more important facts .
11 By establishing an attractive treaty network , Barbados hopes to act as a base for significant investments between its treaty partners .
12 The Levellers favoured annual , or at least biennial , elections , and suggested that no one should be allowed to stand as a candidate for two successive parliaments .
13 An underground , ‘ black ’ economy was allowed to flourish as a substitute for politically indigestible reforms , with the result that corruption became a way of life .
14 Even advocates of the doctrine acknowledge that it must be exercised within defined limits , and not be allowed to serve as a facade for the furtherance of the intervening State 's own ends .
15 For example , the word sardine in a poem would cease to function as a substitute for the thing itself , and instead its linguistic features would be ‘ maximally foregrounded ’ .
16 The Principles are also intended to act as a basis for sectoral codes of practice .
17 The project will continue to serve as a centre for other scholars working in this field .
18 Sometimes these situations were constructed to act as a vehicle for testing abilities in the use of standard algorithms .
19 He sets Ireland up as a type of extreme place — a place possibly cursed in its very soil or divinely reserved to act as a scourge for England .
20 A central process comes to function as a substitute for actual sensory cues .
21 Then , working with staff and using these projects as ‘ guinea pigs ’ , the Centre has begun to look at what makes projects of this kind succeed and whether there are general support mechanisms ( eg. materials , training ) which the Enterprise Centre could help to develop as a resource for academic staff .
22 The revolt was squashed , but Tambov peasants in 1922 were still compelled to pay a levy on the acorns they picked to eat as a substitute for bread .
23 This was the first recorded occasion on which one member of the commons was chosen to act as a spokesman for them all .
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