Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] as a model " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The problem for would-be physiological psychologists is that until relatively recently there have been no other natural phenomena or man-made devices that we understand better than human behaviour that could act as a model or analogy .
4 In this sense it could act as a model for ‘ non-aligned naval support ’ for the USSR .
5 It is also not surprising to discover that Sanskrit could serve as a model for advanced computer language .
6 It could serve as a model for all the great industrial centres in France .
7 Hands that could relish hard physical toil — hands a sculptor would covet as a model for the personification in stone of strength .
8 Hence workers in plants using the most advanced technology have both the awareness and the ability to mount revolutionary demands , and , moreover , suggests Mallet , their activities will act as a model and inspiration for the wider working class .
9 We also believe that this project will serve as a model for the evaluation of other community genetic interventions , with its emphasis on offering optional tests based on informed consent and the education of primary health care teams .
10 I agree that this scheme is significant not only because of what may be achieved for good in the north-west , but because it can act as a model for planning for other areas and for other denominations .
11 The plan of this chapter is to review the main issues in the study of vision and then to consider how far what we have learned about the visual system can act as a model for understanding how other perceptual mechanisms work .
12 What we already know of the Titfords can serve as a model : Charles the Cheesemonger in the late 18th century had 13 children , seven of whom died in infancy ; his grandson , Benjamin the Silversmith , had reduced the number of offspring to five , and would live to see all but one reach adulthood .
13 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 ?
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