Example sentences of "[adv] serve as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I hope that these notes will be good enough to serve as a general guide . |
| 2 | ‘ We are better served as an independent company getting on with our own plans without the involvement of any Australian freebooters , ’ said Mr Holland . |
| 3 | First , the very fact that this standard of review is so limited means that it will only serve as a long stop to catch extreme examples of aberrant administrative behaviour . |
| 4 | The decomposition of observed unemployment rates into their classical and Keynesian parts can only serve as a first step in the formulation of macroeconomic policy since such an exercise must take place within a broader framework which encompasses concepts such as short- and long-run Phillips curves , the natural unemployment rate , and NAIRU . |
| 5 | Like the absence of useful maritime peripheries , however , they can only serve as a secondary reinforcement of pre-existing leanings to political centralism . |
| 6 | War-time mobilisation acts as a single institution which grades them all according to its distinct purposes , thus serving as an external check upon their nature quite separate from the whims of the observer and the contingencies of their previous situation in life . |
| 7 | Viability , similarly , will no longer serve as a moral cutoff point : sophisticated life-support systems can now sustain fetuses as early as 20 weeks and even that limit is being pushed further and further back towards conception . |
| 8 | The paper draws on a model which , while not held up as the definitive approach , could nevertheless serve as a working document for schools wrestling with the realities of moving towards an integrated structure . |
| 9 | To offer a means of institutionalizing their relationships ( which , if given the opportunity , would perhaps be as stable as the average ‘ normal ’ modern marriage ) , thereby guaranteeing some rights of continued support between the parties , would thus serve as a valuable method of ameliorating a particular social ill . |
| 10 | The constitutional monarch ( currently King Baudouin ) , as head of state , has limited powers ( including the appointment of " formateurs " to negotiate the formation of new governments ) , but nevertheless serves as a unifying influence within a linguistically divided country . |
| 11 | Correspondingly , high-level achievements in research all too easily serve as a sufficient criterion for academic excellence . |
| 12 | At Marlborough and Thame , both ancient Saxon towns , the present-day main street — of immense width and length — once served as the open-air market . |
| 13 | This road , the A.82 , once served as the main shopping street but has recently been re-routed to avoid congestion . |
| 14 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 15 | Her experiment was successful because she exacted high standards of cleanliness and co-operation ; but it also involved her exceptional degree of commitment , and although her success was often cited and sometimes emulated , it could no more serve as a general prescription than the 5 per cent philanthropy of Peabody and others . |
| 16 | If other cities are a guide to Milan then it also served as a useful quarry for the inhabitants . |
| 17 | The picture also served as a useful summary or overview of the whole EPH situation , reflecting its position in the surrounding community , liaison links with social workers and relatives of the clients , and its relationship with the area office and the department headquarters . |
| 18 | Margaret Wynne Nevinson , an active feminist , who was a member of a school management committee for twenty-five years and who also served as a Poor Law Guardian , found her fellow male Guardians actively hostile . |
| 19 | True , his own Ordo also served as a secret watchdog over the Inquisition at large . |
| 20 | As a parish priest he also served as a diocesan representative on the first National Liturgy Commission and as a schools commissioner with the North Riding of Yorkshire in the diocesan office . |
| 21 | This back-crossed son of Old Bec was fertile , fathering a number of colts and fillies , and he also served as a popular saddle horse . |
| 22 | Mr Smyth said Williams worked as a leisure professional but also served as a Special Constable and was hoping to become a police officer in the future . |
| 23 | A transformer can also serve as a current comparator in a conventional Wheatstone bridge type of circuit as shown in figure 7.14 . |
| 24 | This part of the document will be of particular use to those new to National Certificate Modules but will also serve as a useful summary for those already familiar with the system . |
| 25 | They may also serve as a useful basis for all children for heuristic strategies , that is , in producing the answers to unknown facts from known ones , for example 8+7= ( 7+7 ) +1 . |
| 26 | Firstly , it meant access to library housekeeping circulation files designed primarily for staff use which could also serve as a rudimentary catalogue for the library user . |
| 27 | It has its own entrance hall which is used for receptions , and also adjacent is The Champagne Room , which can also serve as a pre-function room . |
| 28 | It may also serve as an additional stimulus to develop non-addictive pain-killers . |
| 29 | In reality , Spiro 's main contact was Dr Adnan Mroueh , a Shia Moslem gynaecologist who had also served as a junior minister in the Lebanese Cabinet . |
| 30 | It also serves as a comprehensive set of operating system extensions which help to turn any MS-DOS computer into a multimedia workstation and controls not only the real-time display of video but the video source itself . |