Example sentences of "serve [verb] the " 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 | Perhaps this may serve to emphasise the difficulties of actually manufacturing such items in the period . |
| 4 | A brief reminder to the reader of the nature of these uncertainties , without going into a lengthy digression on them , may serve to emphasise the point that this structural change , as much as the other kinds , added to the dilemmas of decision makers both in business and in government . |
| 5 | This may serve to emphasise the effects of local sequence and structure on the dissociation parameters since those that have been rigorously determined with synthetic oligonucleotides are all flanked by short regions of alternating A and T residues . |
| 6 | A quotation from Bartók 's Fourth String Quartet will serve to confirm the above principles ( Example 106 , next page ) . |
| 7 | This could serve to bolster the Soviet ‘ containment ’ of China . |
| 8 | At best the existence of some checks and balances , or statutory tripwires , may serve to alert the wary as to how things are moving . |
| 9 | According to Kuhn , normal science and revolutions serve necessary functions , so that science must either involve those characteristics or some others that would serve to perform the same functions . |
| 10 | The office , based at 5 Park Place , Cardiff , will serve to promote the interests of Welsh solicitors and to improve liaison between them and Law Society headquarters . |
| 11 | Whether the primary motive for the association was the wish to appear to be in partnership or to avoid being identified as sole practitioners was not clear , but the Tribunal drew attention to the fact that " such a sham partnership would serve to mislead the public who are entitled to believe that the persons being held out as being partners would enjoy the full relationship of support and responsibility which that state engendered " . |
| 12 | Nonetheless these friends will be aware that the sufferer ultimately has to make his or her own way back to recovery and that " helpful " actions should not serve to enable the sufferer to continue the recovery-threatening attitudes or behaviour without organising his or her own responsibility for the consequences . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I am sure they had the pious hope that this foundation would actually serve to increase the nation 's general fitness by pumping money into sport , but if the money is to go on improving facilities at cricket clubs and down the country , then a large number of cricketers who rely on lousy playing conditions for their place in the side will be forced into retirement . |
| 16 | As is now possible with heart disease , perhaps preventive approaches will serve to increase the threshold for the appearance of illness . |
| 17 | Point to the spot , and this should serve to encourage the puppy to sniff in this region . |
| 18 | Opting out may also serve to encourage the development of private education . |
| 19 | It would also serve to encourage the aspirations of Yugoslavia , which let the republic go its own way in late 1991 . |
| 20 | ‘ I believe that the new legislation and initiatives such as the Heartbeat Campaign should be welcomed because they can only serve to benefit the industry . ’ |
| 21 | Israeli officials reacted angrily to the suggestion , claiming that a UN presence in the territories would only serve to inflame the situation . |
| 22 | Even if we were to change the linear arrangement , the three words presented in association would serve to indicate the same process and the same roles of the participants : |
| 23 | But these will serve to indicate the general nature of the phenomena that pragmatics is concerned with . |
| 24 | If minds of the calibre of Krupskaia were so firmly closed so soon , there was little hope that her pedagogic instructions would serve to open the minds of the temnye liudi in the Smolensk or any other guberniia . |
| 25 | The antecedents may serve to initiate the behaviour which can then be reinforced by the consequences . |
| 26 | I KNOW THAT I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DIE until have met Morrissey , but I know that letters from males who are similar ( mentally and/or physically ) to this object of infatuation will serve to lessen the pain . |
| 27 | First , sub-divisions would only serve to create the appearance of a more precisely demarcated critical field than is in fact the case . |
| 28 | It will only serve to annoy the claimants ' advisers and will not lead to a conducive climate for ultimate settlement . |
| 29 | Blocking your feelings will only serve to restrict the way to talk with a partner or someone else important to you . |
| 30 | 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 . |