1.   Brand names serve a useful purpose, not just for the producer but for the consumer as well.

2.   Held crooked, a little behind him, it served no useful purpose.

3.   Here the dislike serves a useful purpose in keeping the family as an isolated unit.

4.   However, critics such as Michael Steiner, a Chula Vista parent, question whether the test serves any useful purpose.

5.   It is perhaps in the field of attribution that this catalogue serves the most useful purpose.

6.   It would serve no useful purpose to re-open the investigation.

7.   Mr Kaczynski has determined that no useful purpose would be served in demanding the duplicative process of a preliminary hearing.

8.   No useful purpose would be served by repeating it here.

9.   Nuclear weapons serve no useful purpose and should be banned.

10.   One May doubt whether modern farming has any useful purpose nowadays when everybody is on a diet.