Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] serve [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If pushed too far , there is a danger that characterising people 's experiences in terms of multiple jeopardies may only serve to marginalise their experiences even further and divert attention from common concerns and issues . |
| 2 | This may only serve to aggravate matters further and undermine your role as a neutral . |
| 3 | This too may merely serve to let the situation spiral out of control . |
| 4 | Nonetheless these friends will be aware that the sufferer ultimately has to make his or her own way back to recovery and that " helpful " actions should not serve to enable the sufferer to continue the recovery-threatening attitudes or behaviour without organising his or her own responsibility for the consequences . |
| 5 | Case recording is one method of keeping in touch with the interview room , but case records are factual reports of problems and action taken , and can not and should not serve to describe attitudes and the atmosphere in the interview room . |
| 6 | Secondly ‘ the curriculum must also serve to develop the pupil as an individual , as a member of society and as a future adult member of the community with a range of personal and social opportunities and responsibilities ’ . |
| 7 | Information which places guilt for the patient 's illness on the family might only serve to reinforce their overprotective and critical communication styles , which may have arisen in the first place for just this reason . |
| 8 | This might thus serve to bridge the transition between prayer and other forms of activity and also embody a perpetual icon for that prayer and for penitence : The shorter version engages with the Passion story much more starkly to project a powerful realisation of the horror of being cut off from all that Christ is — in the words of The Form of Living " he hase noght Jhesu Criste , he tynes all he has , and all he es , and all he myght gete " ( 1.85.19 – 21 ) . |
| 9 | In a rare fit of parsimony , theorists suggested that the dark matter already invoked to bring W up to 1 might also serve to make large structures . |
| 10 | The largest opening in the archosaur skull was the orbit , housing the eyes ; behind this were two temporal openings which allowed for the bulging of the jaw muscles and might even serve to make the skull lighter , since with increasing body size every feature that could reduce weight helped . |
| 11 | Such foods do not deserve the bad reputation they have gained over the years ; eating them more often might well serve to curb the appetite for fatty foods or confectionery . |
| 12 | If these economies are also those with existing substantial disparities in regional prosperity then the transition to monetary union might well serve to aggravate the relative position of the latter , in that any reduction in national income arising from the processes outlined above is itself likely to have a disproportionately large effect on the disadvantaged regions of those countries . |
| 13 | However , some theories of visual word-recognition propose that there are horizontal excitatory links at the letter detection level , since these could potentially serve to speed the identification of words . |
| 14 | The threat of prime ministerial resignation may also serve to whip the Cabinet into line when less subtle forms of persuasion have failed . |
| 15 | A contract audit may also serve to reassure a client who is unfamiliar with construction that the project is being carried out efficiently and effectively . |
| 16 | A further suggestion is that exposure to the context alone given after exposure to the target stimulus will result not only in extinction of context-stimulus associations but may also serve to attenuate the rate with which associations are forgotten . |
| 17 | The way in which the concept of ‘ need ’ is defined by the 1981 Act may also serve to reinforce the limits on parental power . |
| 18 | While working with factual databases can have a bearing on pupils ' skill in using bibliographic databases , it may also serve to reinforce previous database use in the primary school classroom . |
| 19 | Not only might such a diagram act as a checklist of the types of land use to look for in a study of any area , but it may also serve to prompt questions about the working of the basic agricultural economic units which make up the English landscape . |
| 20 | They may also serve to imitate foodstuffs such as meat or cheese . |
| 21 | TEF-1 may also serve to activate tissue specific genes at critical stages during animal development ; in fact , it may be one of the first enhancer activation proteins expressed during mammalian development . |
| 22 | However , the very procedures by which the radicalism so necessary to science is maintained , may also serve to limit and curtail scientific investigation . |
| 23 | The project may also serve to contrast the behaviour of the economy in the 1920 's and the 1930 's with the experience before 1914 . |
| 24 | Opting out may also serve to encourage the development of private education . |
| 25 | An adult 's constant blaming of another can also be heard as the angry protest of the deprived internal infant within that adult body , and when it turns to whining , may also serve to express the yearning and become an attempt to control the whereabouts of the other . |
| 26 | There are inevitably occasions when an interested and sensitive adult may very well be welcomed into the child 's imaginative play , and a ‘ visitor ’ in the role of house guest , window cleaner or plumber , may even serve to extend the play by providing extra stimuli and ideas . |
| 27 | Indeed , it may well serve to do some injustice and violence to the integrity of the substantive phenomena . |
| 28 | That development work or experiments which involve modification of the national curriculum in a school will require the approval of the Secretary of State may well serve to inhibit some forms of school-based curriculum innovation . |
| 29 | Japan will also see a rising number of corporate-bond issues in coming years , which may well serve to put further upward pressure on bond yields regardless of interest-rate developments . |
| 30 | The dog will not be able to recollect the cause of the punishment , and as a result this may simply serve to damage the bond between you . |