Example sentences of "serve [to-vb] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threat of prime ministerial resignation may also serve to whip the Cabinet into line when less subtle forms of persuasion have failed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Secondly , even though static analysis of the sort featured in Figures 5.3 and 5.4 may point to the stimulating effect of price reductions , dynamic considerations such as the effects of bankruptcy and default during the process of price deflation may serve to tighten the grip of recession rather than loosen it . |
| 4 | As is now possible with heart disease , perhaps preventive approaches will serve to increase the threshold for the appearance of illness . |
| 5 | This will simply serve to increase the possibility of conflict between the two dogs , because the social status of the newcomer is raised by your actions . |
| 6 | Opting out may also serve to encourage the development of private education . |
| 7 | First , sub-divisions would only serve to create the appearance of a more precisely demarcated critical field than is in fact the case . |
| 8 | This is not to suggest that consistency is an unworthy value : the argument is rather that there is a need to decide upon the categories to which the argument of consistency is being applied , and above all to recognize that simple resort to the allegation of inconsistency might serve to conceal the conflict between a number of social interests or principles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Other products are seasonal in nature and a mailing or delivery of samples can serve to draw the attention of magazines with short lead times to the current availability of the product . |
| 11 | The advertising jingles and the emphasis on celebration and even the goodwill of the local carol singers did nothing but serve to underline the emptiness of the season without the presence of his own family . |
| 12 | Just give you one example if I may erm which erm will serve to underline the sort of points that I 've been making erm to you . |
| 13 | Yet , provided the regional distinction is borne firmly in mind , the work of both groups may serve to illuminate the debate over the prospects of social stability in the countryside . |
| 14 | It does serve to illustrate the kind of myths that can attach to crowded ballrooms . |
| 15 | One specific case will serve to illustrate the proof of this theorem . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The miners ' strike marks a set-back for those who argue that police and politics do n't mix … for the discussions generated will serve to accelerate the politicisation of the police … [ and ] has highlighted the presence of ACPO and the NRC [ the co-ordinating National Reporting Centre ] , as bodies , set up without the authority of Parliament , of apparently unquantified and unaccountable power . |
| 18 | Unlike Woodchester , however , such geometric decoration as exists does not serve to emphasize the autonomy of the circular arrangement . |
| 19 | Just as the injunctions may serve to exaggerate the feeling of powerlessness , in the face of a limited ( even if substantial ) loss of power , so they lead people to exaggerate the imagined risks of being honest . |
| 20 | An increase in the number of examples of each type of team would serve to reduce the uncertainty about whether the differences found are causally related to the way the team is organized , rather than , say , the product of idiosyncratic differences or of secondary factors . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | If , however , the following segments were those of repudiate the score of the word as a whole would serve to lift the interpretation of over . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Regardless of whether they include direct ancestors or not , the carpoids do serve to demonstrate the likelihood of evolutionary links between chordates — including vertebrates — and the echinoderms . |
| 25 | This intrinsically interesting statement does serve to demonstrate the nature of the botanical information in at least some of the early accounts . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For all their efforts to uncover trends that would serve to unify the history of life on earth , the vast majority were unwilling to explain the trends as the result of natural processes that could be seen operating in the world today . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The bridge will serve to take the path over the Gogar Burn . |