Example sentences of "can serve [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that does not mean that the particular institutional arrangements of a particular society ( namely that which provides the normal context for the use of modern English ) can serve as a paradigm for all others . |
| 2 | Bukharin replied : ‘ It is obvious that only the real process of exchanges of substances between town and country can serve as a firm and stable basis for the influence of the town to be decisive . ’ |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Look around for anything which can serve as a shield , like a dustbin lid . |
| 6 | Meal times can serve as a focus for certain social activities ; consider , for example , the ‘ Sunday roast ’ , the wining-and-dining of lovers , and even the ‘ working breakfast ’ . |
| 7 | An airfield that can serve as a focus for , and a monument to , an era of aviation long gone . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Generally speaking , there are certain well-recognised ways of dancing which can serve as a basis . |
| 10 | Leadership provides organizational values which can serve as a basis for the development of mutual trust and commitment . |
| 11 | In this way , contracts can serve as a basis for individualised instruction . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The library can serve as a laboratory for practice in the skills of using an organized collection , through the use of bibliographies and catalogues , the understanding of the classification scheme , and the proper consultation of works of reference such as encyclopaedias and atlases. 3 . |
| 14 | For knowledgeable readers this part can serve as a reminder ; for those who wish to read further key references are given . |
| 15 | Stewart was a versatile artist ; painting was his lifelong passion and his pictures can serve as a guide to his career . |
| 16 | Indeed the headings of budget estimates can serve as a guide to the content of both sections of the supporting statement . |
| 17 | They can serve as a guide to what was agreed , and we now need to work on the detail . |
| 18 | There is literally nothing of an official nature which can serve as a guide to possible fluctuations in the intervening years . |
| 19 | Conflict — as the Grants slowly realized — is not a matter of words alone ; actions too can serve as a trigger for a negative response . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |