Example sentences of "[modal v] serve as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should not forget this and it should serve as a lesson , ’ he said in a speech to mark the 20th anniversary of Sino-Japanese diplomatic ties . |
| 2 | BLANK screens in France this week should serve as a gentle warning for anyone tempted to write blank cheques for a seat at Britain 's Channel 5 television licence auction . |
| 3 | Tolstoy 's influence can not be over-estimated as Gandhi 's ready acknowledgment shows : ‘ For inculcating this true and higher type of Ahimsa amongst us , Tolstoy 's life with its ocean-like love should serve as a beacon light and a never-failing source of inspiration … ’ |
| 4 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
| 5 | But it should serve as a warning to teachers that suggestions from the ‘ fundamental disciplines ’ must be viewed with caution and scepticism . |
| 6 | The programme should continue to permit a full evaluation of the issues involved and should serve as a model for other initiatives within the community for genetic disease . |
| 7 | This should serve as a useful background for readers intending to buy relatively expensive tools . |
| 8 | The library should serve as the center and coordinating agency for all materials used in the school for visual instruction , such as stereopticons , portable motion picture machines , stereopticon slides , moving picture films , pictures , maps , globes , bulletin board material , museum loans , etc . |
| 9 | The Chinese , even if they were not spies , were certainly not-be trusted , for they were evidently too cowardly to be relied on as stokers to get up sufficient steam to escape German U-boats , which should serve as a warning to " yellow-loving shipowners . " |
| 10 | The comparison of the philosophy of competition policy in the three jurisdictions should serve as a warning against ignoring completely the ‘ public-interest ’ dimension . |
| 11 | The experience of the EC with member state aids to attract foreign direct investment should serve as a warning that EC rules are not always sufficient to prevent member states from taking unilateral steps to improve their national economies at the expense of others . |
| 12 | Versions of Locke 's doctrine of cultural relativity are still staunchly upheld by many professional anthropologists of high repute , though my demonstration that it incorporates the traditional proposition that the opposition " we " / " they " is the equivalent of " human being " / " monster " should serve as a warning . |
| 13 | It should serve as proof , for those who need it , that … . |
| 14 | And its spectacular fall from grace should serve as a warning . |
| 15 | Under the country 's liberal 1987 constitution — one of the few enduring legacies of the popular overthrow of the Duvalier family dictatorship — the highest-ranking Supreme Court Justice should serve as interim President . |
| 16 | The judge said the long sentence should serve as a warning to others tempted to join the illegal trade in exotic birds . |
| 17 | But for one to mean anything at all ( and so , to think ) , some sentence ( picture or the like ) must serve as it stands — that is , not need an accompanying interpretation . |
| 18 | Handy ( 1989 ) has developed a model which might serve as the basis for determining the future structure of schools . |
| 19 | ( An overt OR might serve as an index of this central change but would not , in itself , be directly responsible for most cases of latent inhibition . ) |
| 20 | One possibility advanced by Kaye and Pearce ( 1984 ) is that the behavioural orienting response ( OR ) shown by rats to a localized stimulus might serve as a direct index of α . |
| 21 | 1981 ) that a novel environment might serve as a dishabituator causing the original attentional response to be reinstated ; in addition the novel environment might , quite independently of the stimuli presented in it , have an arousing effect that helps learning . |
| 22 | This small but central incident might serve as a model for Del Giudice 's representation of knowing — the broad sweep , an outline superimposed on a subterranean reality ; the naming of things in a concentrated and satisfying way ; these as the preparation for meetings that are both intellectually passionate and composed , without possibility or need of further elaboration . |
| 23 | Anglophone domination of the off-shore west European islands might serve as a useful example . |
| 24 | The other is to rely on other data which it is hoped might serve as indicators of satisfaction . |
| 25 | Samuel Johnson , who was something of a hero of the new school , once remarked that a man is seldom so innocently employed as when he is making money , and that celebrated remark might serve as a slogan for much of modern British fiction . |
| 26 | In the case of Britain , Wedderburn ( 1974 , p. 31 ) notes that the failure of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act , many of whose legalistic provisions had US antecedents , ‘ might serve as a warning against over simple enthusiasm for the translation of developments from other countries into the British framework ’ . |
| 27 | It again resorted to the previously tried formula of a counter-proposal that might serve as a compromise . |
| 28 | However , Spinoza , as a moralist , appeals to no merely emotive power of ethical words , nor even to facts which might serve as contingent causes of the ethical attitudes he is expressing . |
| 29 | The most accessible data which might serve as a yardstick is that on applicants ' type of educational establishment . |
| 30 | If Glu-Ser-Gln-Glu did indeed correspond to the minimal DNA-PK phosphorylation site , we reasoned that this region of c-Jun might serve as a phosphorylation site when placed in the context of another protein . |