Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] as a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accord might also act as a floor to wages during the recession . |
| 2 | It will also act as a service to the Research and other interested constituencies . |
| 3 | The statue will also serve as a memorial to the 55,000 RAF bomber aircrew who sacrificed their lives during the War . |
| 4 | There is an extensive list of references so that the paper may also serve as an introduction to the literature about these animals . |
| 5 | This visit will also serve as an introduction to written records and their importance for history . |
| 6 | Shils wrote with confidence of the universal value of this centre-periphery model , in a way which might now appear as a paean to a particular vision of the American way of politics : |
| 7 | That he should now figure as an addition to the Modern Masters series is yet another irony of Derrida 's ascent to intellectual stardom . |
| 8 | This summer will now come as a boon to the pressurised Irish representative players . |
| 9 | The traffic impact of any development could be accommodated without serious detriment to the surrounding area , but although the above constraints are not seen as insurmountable , they may well act as a deterrent to development . |
| 10 | It may even come as a surprise to some to learn that fish and chips is opaque at all ; but one needs only to consider that not any kind of fish , nor any method of cooking and presentation , will qualify for the description , and that this is not true of , say , chips and fish or even fish with chips , both of which are transparent . |
| 11 | It may sometimes serve as a companion to the present volume . |
| 12 | The latter phenomenon would not actually come as a surprise to regional economists . |