Example sentences of "thus serve [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The list will thus serve to jog your memory and ensure that you do not overlook significant items . |
| 5 | The notion thus serves to give moral worth and competence to members of an occupational group whose level of education is often quite low . |
| 6 | For the full-time housewife , in particular , standards and routines thus serve to keep the ‘ worker ’ employed . |
| 7 | Such councils might , conceivably , ‘ attract the interests of politically minded Africans and thus serve to diminish the demand for representation in a central Legislature by recourse to a system of electorates ’ . |