Example sentences of "have [adv] serve [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the attention lavished on the Conservative party , and especially on the Conservative Party 's ideas , in the past few years has only served to emphasize the relative neglect of Conservative history and Conservative thought before Mrs Thatcher . |
| 2 | Established to rekindle Anglo-Italian relations after the Heysel disaster , the tournament has only served to blacken the name of soccer . |
| 3 | The reintroduction of stamp duty in August , which is the equivalent of 20% of the deposit required for a 95% mortgage , has only served to aggravate the problem . |
| 4 | On the contrary , everything has only served to strengthen it , ’ Travis countered heavily . |
| 5 | Indeed , that was why so many of his remarks have echoed in my mind over the years , because experience has merely served to confirm their aptness . |
| 6 | Since then the increase in warning time has merely served to reinforce the view . |
| 7 | The Security Treaty , with its underlying motive of making Japan a strong ally in the Pacific area , has thus served to reinforce the close ties with the US that were forged during the Occupation period . |
| 8 | The geographical patterning of the subsequent ‘ national ’ economic recovery has largely served to reinforce this dichotomy . |
| 9 | I do not want to get involved in the technicalities of such arguments but , for good or ill , the anthropomorphic style of sociobiological interpretation , together with its exaggerated insistence that virtually all patterns of animal behaviour ( including those found in man ) can be explained by evolutionary hypotheses , has lately served to reinforce and extend Darwin 's original Epicurean thesis that the difference between man and other animals is simply one of degree , that there is no natural discontinuity . |
| 10 | The row about border controls has already served to deflect everybody 's mind from the main body and thrust of Article 8A , which was meant finally to establish the Common Market by the end of 1992 . |
| 11 | Whether by accident or design , it has also served to conceal historical information of considerable importance . |
| 12 | This cooperation has also served to strengthen the sole regulatory powers of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ( CFTC ) , and has reinforced the opposition to a transaction tax proposal on futures transactions . |
| 13 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 14 | Finding the bodies in the gas station forecourt had only served to convince him his way would be best for everyone — as well as making the world a safer place . |
| 15 | The struggle over the succession between Ahidjo and Biya , in spite of its curious circumstances , had only served to emphasize that the succession problem remained alive and unresolved . |
| 16 | The fears generated by the blockade had only served to strengthen Western suspicion of Russia and to deepen Europe 's division . |
| 17 | But his insistence that she leave everything to him had only served to strengthen her determination to be independent . |
| 18 | They had fought back , and it had felt the sting of their fight which had only served to make its hunger and hideous needs greater . |
| 19 | Peter Hickton , unaware that cooperation could be bought by payment of ‘ negotiated extras ’ , responded to the crew 's apparent lethargy by throwing one of his tantrums , which had only served to make them less willing to help out . |
| 20 | This was a rather simplistic interpretation of the many disagreements which affected political life , but it contained some truth and helped to explain why France was unable to create a British or American-style two-party system : the question of authoritarianism and democracy in the constitution , which had divided Frenchmen since the Revolution , had again served to divide the country in the constitutional debates of 1946 ; the role of the Roman Catholic Church in national life divided the Christian Democrats from the other leading parties ; and questions of class conflict were particularly apparent in early 1947 in differences over wage levels . |
| 21 | Deregulation , competition and the creation of new financial products have all served to make credit more attractive and easier to obtain . |
| 22 | Dramatic developments since then — most notably Black Wednesday and the scandals engulfing the Royal Family — have only served to heighten this sense of dislocation . |
| 23 | The recent shouting matches between Charles and Diana , and the revelations about Fergie and her men friends have upset her dreadfully , but have only served to strengthen her resolve that her own deep love for her children must be put aside in order to protect the royal heritage she has always made her priority . |
| 24 | Yet it is true that , although Foucault 's " counter-sciences " , by repeatedly demonstrating the apparently endless variety of what is humanly possible , have constantly served to enlarge the scope of " us " at the expense of " other " , they have , at the same time , ended up by making the generality man so imprecise as to be almost meaningless . |
| 25 | Branch Welfare Officer profiles have been featured in the local press and the Association 's new welfare facilities have also served to provide a focus of interest for the media . |
| 26 | The criticisms of Totem and Taboo which have been made by social anthropologists have often served to clarify issues left obscure in the original work . |
| 27 | The various statistical measures of performance which have been produced have indirectly served to reveal the crucial and probably dominant role of non-quantifiable influences in economic performance . |
| 28 | Whilst not wishing to create visions of the past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ ( it was certainly not ) , it can not be denied that the main social trends in family organization , particularly since the Industrial Revolution , have increasingly served to isolate ageing people . |