Example sentences of "[modal v] serve as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This should serve as a useful background for readers intending to buy relatively expensive tools . |
| 3 | Anglophone domination of the off-shore west European islands might serve as a useful example . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I forced myself to write a chapter or two about the good things he did : getting rid of dead wood in the bureau ; eliminating corruption among his agents ; setting up a fingerprint system , an FBI laboratory that could serve as a technical resource for police forces all over the country . |
| 6 | Those who carried their counties or their countries to victory are featured to the exclusion of all else , and the result could serve as a visual aid to motivation . |
| 7 | The book is complementary to Durant and Fabb 's Literary Studies in Action , published by Routledge in the Interface series in 1990 , and in many ways it could serve as a useful introduction to that volume . |
| 8 | The met repressor may serve as a useful model for such systems . |
| 9 | The case of Deerhurst in Gloucestershire may serve as a useful example to show what can be learned about early land use and also to indicate some of the pitfalls . |
| 10 | Therefore , PCNA may serve as a useful marker for proliferation if the conditions of fixation are held constant and the same antibody is used throughout the experiment . |
| 11 | Transient ischaemia , often with plaque rupture and formation of platelet fibrin thrombi , distal embolisation , and possibly local vasoconstriction may serve as a primary cause of cardiac arrest or may modulate a fixed arrhythmogenic substrate . |
| 12 | And nineteen eighty two may serve as a suitable reminder for us as we seek to identify those likely to make the most significant contributions in the future . |
| 13 | The episode further emphasised the unsatisfactory state of the libel law , and how the prospect of massive awards of damages may serve as a real threat to freedom of expression . |
| 14 | Again , such a group , meeting on a regular basis , may serve as a stress-reducing medium . |
| 15 | Our results suggest that cholera toxin may serve as a secretory model in the human jejunum which might allow testing of new antisecretory agents . |
| 16 | Failure to understand the distinction between PPD skin test reactivity and active TB may serve as a further disincentive to PPD testing . |
| 17 | Such a fee would serve as a mutual recognition of the aims of the Society , namely to seek to improve the professional back-up and administrative services provided by the Society for all teachers . |
| 18 | Even Frank Williams , who gave Mansell the fresh start he craved in 1985 , believed he had signed no more than a ‘ journeyman ’ , who would serve as a useful number two driver . |
| 19 | The interpretation put forward here is not fundamentally different from that offered by Jaynes when he suggested that a tendency to emit ( a fractional version of ) the response acquired in the first stage would serve as a mediating process in the second , and that the salience of the mediator would depend on the magnitude of the initial response of which it was a fraction . |
| 20 | Some will be to provoke interest and curiosity , others will be to reinforce learning , still others will be for extension work and most importantly some areas will be for the pupils ' own work which will serve as a major focus of attention . |
| 21 | Any variations in production of 14 C are rapidly distributed throughout the atmosphere , so a calibration curve of radiocarbon ‘ age ’ versus calendar age for one material and one geographical region will serve as a global calibration curve . |
| 22 | Under the new planting , work in a good lump of compost , moist peat , or contents from a spent growbag ; this will serve as a moisture-absorbent reservoir to guard against the arch enemy of new plantings : drying out . |
| 23 | But at least for the rest of us Johanna 's lovely face will serve as a terrible reminder that our teenage daughters — however self-sufficient they might seem — are probably more at peril as they blossom into womanhood than they ever were as little girls . |
| 24 | Instead they enter college wedded through their own experience to an implicit theory of schooling and teaching that will serve as a working template for some groups of pupils they teach , but which will be wildly inappropriate for others . |
| 25 | TNC believes that imposed reform of the curriculum and assessment , by which schools become more accountable to the community , will serve as a powerful device to enhance school effectiveness by increasing the external pressure on the head and staff of underachieving schools . |
| 26 | There is no doubt that the credit system will serve as a powerful lever during the transition from the capitalist mode of production to the mode of production of associated labour … ’ |
| 27 | The Uganda syllabus , typical of many , will serve as a profitable example . |
| 28 | The attraction of the book is that it gives clinicians an easily readable albeit superficial overview that will serve as a useful introduction : and even specialists in the field are likely to find useful information in one or more of the chapters . |
| 29 | ‘ No matter , it will serve as a useful antidote to what they will try and inculcate you with at school , that 's its chief virtue . |
| 30 | For the convenience of the reader , there is set out in Appendix 3 a checklist which will serve as a useful reminder of the principal matters to be considered . |