Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] serve [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had turned to longer films to attract better audiences and the device of the fiction film not only served to head off the challenge of reformers but also guaranteed an exclusive hold on mass audiences . |
| 2 | This not only serves to give the issues all the appearance of being fundamental and crucial , but also conceals the fact that matters are not so simple as to be accurately captured by such a dualistic portrayal . |
| 3 | Furthermore , evidence was described to support their contention that the events were of formative importance , and were not merely serving to trigger depression in a woman who would shortly have become depressed anyway . |
| 4 | The variety of local provision highlighted above also serves to provide an interesting comment on how local authorities respond to national initiatives . |
| 5 | But might they not also serve to overcome properties of the individual members of a society which are themselves the result of other social practices ? |
| 6 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 7 | So many bereaved people , especially women , do not continue to try and have a social life as it is just too difficult and usually just serves to reinforce their sense of isolation and hurt . |
| 8 | The concluding Fugue , for example , exhibits a clarity and lightness of texture which once again serves to negate the label of prolixity which for too long has been attached to Reger . |
| 9 | But to his scholarly readers in Carolingian Europe that probably only served to emphasize the lesson that the interests of good kings and a flourishing church were closely intertwined . |
| 10 | She 'd thought before that he seemed used to power , and looking at him now only served to strengthen that feeling . |
| 11 | The hugeness of the world out there only served to increase her sense of confinement and frustration . |
| 12 | To leave the continuing development of training co-operatives to those libraries best able to help themselves would almost certainly only serve to reinforce the existing inequitable situation . |