The phrase "serving as models" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing entities or individuals that exemplify certain behaviors, characteristics, or standards for others to follow.
Example: "The successful entrepreneurs in our community are serving as models for aspiring business owners."
Alternatives: "acting as examples" or "functioning as templates."
Already, many are serving as models.
(Instead Muñiz sent an e-mail message lavishing praise on his environmental and education initiatives. "He has led in addressing old problems in new ways," she enthused. "Ask state leaders around the country. Governor Bush's reforms are serving as models for the nation").
The college, which has an organic garden and changed its faucets and toilets to conserve water, was an early proponent of environmental education, and its degree programs are serving as models for 10 other community colleges, according to Roger Ebbage, director of energy programs at the college's Northwest Energy Education Institute.
Such a statement must not, however, be taken as dismissing the outstanding services rendered by the best work of the so-called private presses and by the valued demonstration volumes produced in limited numbers by major presses such as the Cambridge University Press in England, in holding up to view the best that the craft is capable of and thus serving as models for the craft itself.
Many studies of NP toxicity are carried out in primary cell cultures serving as models of various types of human and animal tissues.
Further, TPPM-based diester CPs with cobalt II) ions have been investigated in terms of their nonlinear optical properties, serving as models for studies of spectrally-resolved second harmonic generation (SHG) and third harmonic generation (THG).
Sulfolobus species are thermoacidophilic crenarchaea, serving as model systems for the archaeal cell cycle [ 20].
They took off their clothes and served as models.
These enterprises would serve as models for a national literature.
The United States Department of Defense owns four Armed Forces Recreation Centers that could serve as models for a Governors Island center.
Mr. DiGiovanni, who lives in New Haven, recruits people he knows to serve as models.
