Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] serve [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in all such complicated and protracted events , both had right on their side at times which only served to perpetuate feelings of grievance . |
| 2 | Which only served to remind her once again of her own lack of control . |
| 3 | Because some of the volunteers subsequently joined my slimming and exercise classes which I hold weekly at the Holiday Inn in Leicester , I was able to hear first hand the kind of encouraging comments which only served to confirm what I was seeing with my eyes as each week passed . |
| 4 | Likewise , Newton 's ‘ established ’ groups built up a ‘ close set ’ of relationships with public officials in Birmingham ( 1976 , p. 85 ) , while his poorly established groups found it difficult to gain access to decision-makers and thereby had to resort to demonstrations , petitions and so on which only served to make them even more unacceptable . |
| 5 | She observed two of the leading women philanthropists of the day , Ella Pycroft and Octavia Hill , both of whom had remained single , and recorded her opinion that both ‘ might have been more ’ with a happy family life , which only served to increase her anguish . |
| 6 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 7 | He may consider it his duty to practise non-cooperation and civil disobedience , but he must always be on his guard against acts of violence which only serve to militate against the success of his actions . |
| 8 | Martin Bangemann , the second most senior European commissioner after the EC President , Jacques Delors , does not share Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's sympathy with Major 's parliamentary difficulties , issuing statements about the need to press ahead with the union which only serve to anger further the rebel Tories . |
| 9 | Many documents , especially from the nineteenth century , contain redundant words which only serve to confuse . |
| 10 | KIM WILDE : For allowing herself to be subjected to year after year of pathetic changes of image which only serve to make her look uncomfortable , especially the latest one , with the expensive Marilyn Monroe dress , loads of cleavage and sub-Belinda Carlisle rock balladeering . |
| 11 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 12 | She also points to the danger of a new tendency to give attention to affluent active newly-retired people , which only serves to concentrate ageism on older , poorer people . |
| 13 | Quotas by definition rigidify and distort the market , so we must resist absurdities such as nitrogen and other input quotas which merely serve to raise the cost of production and undermine our ability to compete . |
| 14 | ( They have also recognized the political virtues of pluralistic multi-party democracy , which pluralism appeared to celebrate while Marxists previously derided it as ‘ bourgeois democracy ’ which merely served to mystify the reality of class oppression . ) |
| 15 | The second was the decision of the American Supreme Court that they should divest themselves of monopoly control of the cinema chains which , as Heston said , was in hindsight a death blow which merely served to hasten the financial decline of each and every studio . |
| 16 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 17 | At the beginning of this chapter it was suggested that the main features by which we can characterise the wider category of positivist criminology ( and which also serve to distinguish it from classical criminology ) are determinism , differentiation , pathology and the diversion of attention away from crime ( and the criminal law ) to the criminal . |
| 18 | We saw in Chapter 6 how Marxists argue that military spending is one solution to under-consumption ; at the same time Marxists would also argue that Keynesian demand management and social welfarism is another instrument for creating higher effective consumer demand , which also serves to create further false consciousness among the working class and defuse threats to the legitimacy of the state . |
| 19 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 20 | I got the distinct impression that ‘ no deals for hostages ’ was a hollow posture that sounded tough but which really served to free the Thatcher government from the bother of exerting the influence it could , through diplomacy and trade . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , until the end of his life Muldoon continued to command a significant degree of support among interventionists within the parliamentary caucus of the National Party , a factor which consistently served to undermine his leadership successors . |
| 22 | He also published a number of books of his designs , which doubtless served to publicize his name . |