Example sentences of "which serve [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains by far the most convincing performance committed to disc by virtue of its natural pacing and brazen flair , which serve to underline the experimental nature of much of the content . |
| 2 | On his first night , he is homosexually attacked by a mentally handicapped dwarf , and there then follows a parade of evils which serve to emphasise the horrors of life in a mental hospital — attacks on patients by the staff , general squalor , lack of hygiene and overcrowding ; essentially harrowing and horrific . |
| 3 | At their best , the procedures include ironies and paradoxes which serve to illuminate the world Wells confronted . |
| 4 | It is these same practical taxonomies which serve to exemplify the principles of cultural order . |
| 5 | For originally , Gothic was one of the number of aesthetic developments which serve to breach the classical and rational order of life , and to make possible a kind of response , and a response to a kind of thing that among the knowing had long been taboo . |
| 6 | Instead , we concentrate upon some key components and examples , which serve to illustrate the issues and problems involved . |
| 7 | The events that immediately precede a strike are more accurately defined as the factors which serve to precipitate the ensuing conflict . |
| 8 | The sequence of accidents through which the hero has to steer his suffering way to achieve fame and fortune ( even to the extent , in Peter Simple , of years incarcerated in Bedlam by a wicked uncle ) must be viewed in the context of society nearly two centuries ago ; even so , these are organised , contrived and deliberately sensational plots which serve to contain the sprawling , spanking reality of Marryat 's detail . |
| 9 | Among these are large canvases such as ‘ Pentecost ’ by Restout , which serve to balance the received idea of eighteenth-century French art as portrayed by the Goncourt brothers which was based almost exclusively on portraits and small-scale works . |
| 10 | In addition , final-year units emphasize issues which serve to synthesize the three years of study . |
| 11 | These elements of local structure are conceived not only as important in their own right but as elements which serve to articulate the sets of social relationships in which the inhabitants participate so that these relationships constitute a field or network . |
| 12 | Broadly speaking , we can identify four sets of pressures which serve to disable the media from meeting their own criteria of objectivity and balance in the coverage of public disorder . |