Example sentences of "thereby [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when the means of production are communally owned will classes disappear , thereby bringing an end to the exploitation and oppression of some by others . |
| 2 | If these manoeuvres were successful , the whole might of Russia could then be redeployed for an attack on central Germany , thereby bringing the war to an end . |
| 3 | Dulles precipitated the crisis by peremptorily withdrawing US financial aid for the Aswan Dam , thereby opening the door to the flow of Eastern Bloc arms and influence into the Middle East — the very situation that he had feared British colonial obduracy would create . |
| 4 | PowerGen was created out of the remaining 30 per cent of the power plant , thereby forming a competitor to the dominant supplier . |
| 5 | It may well be that Mark made the events fit a single week because the Church was already celebrating a ‘ Holy Week ’ , thereby giving a structure to the early Christian celebrations . |
| 6 | This assumes that there is a tension between the causing of serious harm ( death ) and the relatively low fault ( ‘ recklessness ’ , as here defined ) , and that this tension should be resolved in favour of the fault element when we are deciding on the labels of offences , thereby making no reference to the result , but should be resolved in favour of the serious harm when sentencing , increasing the sentence according to the gravity of the resulting harm . |