Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She could , however , have taken this point one step further , for , given that the central organising theme of the Sexual Offences Act was the re-establishment , albeit in a modified form , of male control over one area of female sexuality and thereby indirectly over female sexuality as a whole , it would seem highly likely that the choice of prostitutes as ‘ folk devils ’ occurred in large part in response to this growing liberation . |
| 32 | Gandhi is unable to harbour the thought , even secretly , that another man 's faith is inferior to his own because of his belief that different faiths are God 's creation and thereby equally holy . |
| 33 | Despite some earlier hesitations , it is now certain that A commits the tort of intimidation against C if he threatens B with conduct which is unlawful in relation to B and thereby intentionally causes B to act ( or refrain from acting ) in a way which causes damage to C. It is not a requirement of this tort that B's conduct be in any way unlawful in relation to C. An old illustration is Garret v. Taylor , where the plaintiff was the lessee of a quarry and alleged that the defendant had ‘ disturbed ’ his customers and his workmen by ‘ threatening to mayhem and vex them with suits if they had brought any stones . ’ |
| 34 | There is little direct authority on the position where A threatens B with an unlawful act and thereby intentionally causes B to act ( or refrain from acting ) in a way which causes loss to B himself . |
| 35 | On the circumference of that circle are new origins for new circles that accelerate the degeneration by annulling the compensatory effects of the preceding circle , and thereby also making its truth and beneficence appear . |
| 36 | To start with the lowest common denominator , all sections of the Labour Party could agree that the object was to cement a good working relationship between the government and the trade unions , and thereby also to secure widespread political support , to develop a hegemony which would contrast sharply with both the Heath phase and the bitterness and disillusionment which followed compulsory wage restraint and ‘ In Place of Strife ’ in the late '60s . |
| 37 | There has , however , been some debate in modern times about the motivation which lay behind this huge increase in Rome 's power : was it the constant aggression of neighbouring states which prompted Rome to take protective measures , and thereby incidentally achieve this new position , or was Rome an imperialist power whose expansion was internally motivated ( for example , by land hunger or aristocratic avarice for glory ) ? |
| 38 | Thus the dialogue and its frame emphasize the bond between the two of them , and thereby further underline the horror of the sacrifice of which they speak . |
| 39 | EC organic land use will increase from 255,821 to 776,000 hectares , with greater output leading to lower prices and thereby further encouraging consumption . |
| 40 | Greenpeace have recommended that funding agencies should act to set up heating control and energy-efficient light bulb factories in the Ukraine , in an effort to cut electricity consumption and thereby further reduce dependency on nuclear power . |
| 41 | Floristically rich ( and thereby often entomologically rich ) pastures and hay meadows , traditionally managed for many years , perhaps always since woodland clearance , can have their interest destroyed simply by one ploughing or by occasional applications of inorganic fertiliser . |
| 42 | The consumers ' hints and suggestions , communicated over considerable distance and thereby often greatly distorted when realized by the manufacturers , resulted in changes in the cloth , which in turn prompted further comments . |
| 43 | Governments were supported by economic theorists in applying the prescriptions of short-term equilibrium analysis — and thereby supposedly maintaining at or near the full employment of resources — as the means for achieving long-term growth . |
| 44 | On the other hand , do n't make a habit of shouting every time you do something : this will cause the panel to switch off , and thereby perhaps miss an actual score . |
| 45 | Ant colonies often entertain a variety of parasitic arthropods such as beetles and mites , and some that are merely commensal ; that is they merely co-habit with the ants , and thereby perhaps gain protection , or scavenge for scrap food , but do no obvious harm . |
| 46 | These facts escaped the attention of our radical sisters and thereby so did we . |
| 47 | It made the readers share in the horror it described and thereby so disgusted , shocked and outraged them that instead of tending to encourage anyone to homosexuality , drug-taking or brutal violence it would have precisely the reverse effect . |
| 48 | What this does suggest , at a very superficial reading , is that the transformations from science have not swept all before them , but they themselves may have been captured , and made familiar and thereby totally unscientific in content , by much older symbolic systems . |
| 49 | But on lower , inherently more productive , land elsewhere in the Auvergne , the payment decreases ( see Chapter 6 ) and thereby more adequately reflects the level of handicap . |
| 50 | But whereas General Franco 's rapid and decisive action resolved at a stroke the problem of order and the underlying political question , the use of force to suppress anarchists and revolutionary communists in Barcelona only exacerbated the Republic 's political difficulties and thereby seriously undermined its capacity to offer united resistance to its attackers . |
| 51 | His son could capitalize on the mood of the moment , and thereby once again remind his Scottish subjects that they were not mere inhabitants of ‘ the outpost of mankind ’ , but mainstream , up-to-date Europeans . |
| 52 | The ‘ silent spring ’ predicted by Rachel Carson some 20 years ago has not arrived , even though global sales of pesticides last year totalled £7 billion ; but persistent organochlorine insecticides , such as DDT , are damaging some populations of birds , and chemicals sometimes destroy beneficial natural enemies and thereby actually create pests . |
| 53 | The effect of the order of Waite J. , had it not been immediately stayed by this court , might have been to require the health authority to put J. on a ventilator in an intensive care unit , and thereby possibly to deny the benefit of those limited resources to a child who was much more likely than J. to benefit from them . |
| 54 | Hopefully , further research may lead to a way of quantifying tendon strength and thereby possibly being able to identify animals at risk from tendon injury prior to starting training . |
| 55 | Although there was little room to doubt that the government of the United States , with the assistance of the British and German governments , was engaged in the biggest cover-up of modern times , there was no possible way Shaughnessy could prove it to a judge and jury unless the US government opened its files — and thereby virtually incriminated itself . |
| 56 | While Syria made the appropriate public disclaimers , insisting it was serious about eradicating drugs and denying sanctuary to terrorists headquartered in the Bekaa Valley , Washington could take no independent action without risking the charge of meddling in Syria 's internal affairs and thereby still further inflaming Arab sensitivities throughout the Middle East . |
| 57 | In the latter two cases the objects concerned can be given spatial co-ordinates and thereby unequivocally distinguished from any other particulars of the similar sort . |
| 58 | On the other hand , there are some sufferers from addictive disease — Particularly cocaine users — who may for quite some time be highly respectable and law-abiding and thereby wrongly assume that they are not addicted . |
| 59 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 60 | Just to conclude , this is the best budget education 's had for many years , it 's good news for schools , it 's good news for council tax payers and mostly importantly it 's good news for pupils and I hope you 'll accept that . |