Example sentences of "[pron] can serve [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look around for anything which can serve as a shield , like a dustbin lid . |
| 2 | This is crucial for large-scale societies such as nation-states which , by virtue of their size , demand some concretized form such as a monument which can serve as a focus for the populace 's identification with the state . |
| 3 | There is literally nothing of an official nature which can serve as a guide to possible fluctuations in the intervening years . |
| 4 | Generally speaking , there are certain well-recognised ways of dancing which can serve as a basis . |
| 5 | Leadership provides organizational values which can serve as a basis for the development of mutual trust and commitment . |
| 6 | He indicated that Soviet leaders had themselves to clarify their agenda for economic and political reform and added that " if they do … we can serve as a catalyst " . |
| 7 | They can serve as a guide to what was agreed , and we now need to work on the detail . |
| 8 | Theoretically , it can serve as a source of ideas and insights which are of potential relevance for the formulation of principles : ideas emerging from disciplines devoted to the study of language and learning which might bear upon the definition of language as subject . |
| 9 | When a man achieves his highest reality he can serve as a fantasy for another man ; and in a frightening Genetic turnabout , both then become equal . |