Example sentences of "serves [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vicious tone does him no credit whatsoever and in fact only serves to tarnish the image of the party . |
| 2 | This book serves to confirm a lot of prejudices : why is Dutch graphic design so dreadfully small and fiddly ? |
| 3 | While general training serves to socialize the dog within the home and the community , there may be deviations from the usual pattern which can be rectified in this way . |
| 4 | This serves to emphasise the relevance to the specialty of the EC directives which require ‘ Theoretical and practical instruction … supervised by the competent authorities … in a health establishment approved for this purpose … involving the personal participation of the doctor training to be a specialist in the activity and in the responsibilities of the establishments concerned . ’ |
| 5 | This only serves to emphasise the desirability of stating expressly whether time is or is not to be of the essence . |
| 6 | The very existence of such a fund serves to emphasise the inequity of the present law . |
| 7 | If on the other hand residential accommodation is granted for a term at a rent with exclusive possession , the landlord providing neither attendance nor services , the grant is a tenancy ; any express reservation to the landlord of limited rights to enter and view the state of the premises and to repair and maintain the premises only serves to emphasise the fact that the grantee is entitled to exclusive possession and is a tenant . |
| 8 | It all serves to emphasise the point that RMI is an approach , or process of management and all these elements have a part to play but in a co-ordinated , integrated fashion . |
| 9 | This piece of play acting serves to publicize the fact that the forthcoming marriage conforms to the rules of caste endogamy and " incest " prohibitions . ) |
| 10 | We also noted that children 's interpretation of sentences can be improved by presenting a preceding context which serves to inform the child about the kind of meaning that a sentence will contain . |
| 11 | For Hayek the rule of law is a meta-legal doctrine or a political ideal which serves to impose a limitation on all legislation . |
| 12 | The word spiritual has become for many fundamentally dissociated from religion and so serves to encourage an alternative , one that is more attractive because lacking both definition and the incubus associated with religion . |
| 13 | It is used to suppress emotional feelings and it serves to isolate the sufferer from other people and to make him or her feel " special and different " . |
| 14 | It serves to hide the professional , that is elite , structure through which it continues to operate by assuming the mantle of the popular for itself . |
| 15 | Williamson argues that giving due recognition to the importance of transaction costs serves to redress the balance towards efficiency explanations , particularly if one accepts that rather stringent structural preconditions must be satisfied before anti-competitive behaviour is plausibly successful ( 1983 : 537 , n. 38 ) . |
| 16 | This again serves to highlight the importance of the cut-off point in determining estimates of illness prevalence . |
| 17 | There are occasions , though , when their admirable arrogance serves to closet the band behind a mystique bordering on élitism . |
| 18 | While legislation is , therefore , an obvious means of central control of local authorities , statute also serves to restrict the role of central government , as the Tameside dispute ( 1976 ) demonstrated . |
| 19 | -WA serves to create a theme by identifying NP 's [ i.e. noun phrases ] that are to be placed on what we may call the ‘ thematic stage ’ . |
| 20 | Thus , ‘ pro-Zionism ’ is a rhetorical move which serves to fuel the argument against the ‘ pro-Palestinians ’ . |
| 21 | Fruitful though this has been in promoting and giving direction to research , its uncritical pursuit only serves to advance a reductionist and therefore an inadequate view of man . |
| 22 | The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography . |
| 23 | A writer will not necessarily escape by criticising " some " members of a class , if other evidence serves to identify the plaintiff as a member of the criticised section . |
| 24 | All observers seem to agree that , as Mair ( 1990 : 200 ) puts it , " the infinitival construction generally serves to express a combination of knowledge and subjective judgment " while the that- clause expresses " plain knowledge " ( cf. also Riddle 1975 : 471 ; Dixon 1984 : 590 ; Wierzbicka 1988 : 50-1 ) . |
| 25 | Of course , each village does contain its own unique qualities , but to dwell on these only serves to obscure the nature of the changes which have overtaken them , since a concern for the minutiae of each individual village leads us to lose sight of the widespread changes that have affected almost all villages in recent years . |
| 26 | The depression at the end serves to focus the wave to a fine spot , which ideally should be in the region of one wavelength in diameter . |
| 27 | Relaxation therefore serves to lower the heart rate , reduce blood pressure , reduce sweat gland activity , alter brain wave pattern , and reduce somatomotor activity . |
| 28 | This serves to lower the probability that tightly coiled conformations will be favoured . |
| 29 | A long reach will come in handy once on the arête , though it would n't exactly be a disadvantage right from the word go , where good protection serves to alleviate the situation somewhat . |
| 30 | Lower cost production and prices will follow and this will help to expand an area of manufacture within EC markets and also serves to enhance the market for such goods in the rest of the world . |