Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is vital information for any understanding of prehistoric motivation and vastly increases the range of data available from a ceremonial site . |
| 2 | But if this food is in short supply and the whole population is in danger of dying out , then cannibalism makes sense : it maximises the food supply and vastly increases the chance that some at least of the tadpoles will survive . |
| 3 | Unless Council has a change of heart , however , and both publishes details of the results of the consultation and properly addresses the legitimate concerns expressed , it may find the changes fail to win the backing of the people who matter — the nurses themselves . |
| 4 | Despite disagreement over the extent of providential intervention in the flow of human events evangelicals had no doubt that ‘ there is a God who governs the world and intimately directs all the concerns of his rational and immortal creatures ’ . |
| 5 | Unlike the central character struggling in the movement of history in its unfolding , the communist narrator , distanced from the events themselves , coolly and relentlessly exposes the myths and illusions of the period with the hindsight of history . |
| 6 | Cranmer , who will be 78 on September 10 , is mentally alert and avidly follows the fortunes of his beloved Warwickshire through the newspapers . |
| 7 | It works at a warm temperature and vigorously turns the sugars in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide , producing at the same time ripe fruity aromas that add to the pleasure of ale drinking . |
| 8 | She sits at her dressing-table and vigorously brushes her hair , a mop of copper-coloured curls , natural curls , as tight and springy as coiled steel . |
| 9 | In the earwigs ( Dermaptera ) the female lays her eggs in burrows or nests and vigorously defends her brood . |
| 10 | This picture has a more contemporary scenario , and successfully portrays a village at sleep |
| 11 | This approach also forms the basis of the supporting information system and successfully links both current educational philosophy and practice and school resources with learning opportunities . |
| 12 | Set up in 1984 , Radio RIN currently broadcasts for 20 hours a day and successfully competes with many of the country 's commercial stations . |
| 13 | And thence begins the ecological richness of Africa . |
| 14 | The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other . |
| 15 | In this , his value always exceeds Boswell 's ; Johnson the writer has no need to grind the axe of his ego , and thereby feels no qualms in conveying how confusing he finds the native Scots , who , decisive and firm in their answer to his first question , are likely to contradict it entirely in answering the second question . |
| 16 | First , to the extent that an issue is expressly covered by the Convention it displaces rules of national law that might otherwise apply and thereby renders otiose conflict-of-laws rules designed to lead to the selection of the applicable national law . |
| 17 | But Poulantzas argues that the attribution of the power to manipulate to the ruling class elevates it to the status of a subject — an agent who does things — and thereby reintroduces the idea of collective intensions which cry out for individualist explanation . |
| 18 | These findings suggest that axonal electrical activity normally controls the production and/or release of the growth factors that are responsible for proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells and thereby helps to control the number of oligodendrocytes that develop in the region . |
| 19 | Relate ( formerly Marriage Guidance ) , is a voluntary organization with a national council , coordinating the activities of local councils , which aims to promote successful marriage and parenthood and thereby helps to maintain family welfare by improving marital relationships . |
| 20 | The frost causes the bracken to die back and thereby opens up the canopy to let in more light . |
| 21 | Insisting that religious faith must be absolutely certain and secure , it decides that history can never provide such security and thereby loses interest in history altogether . |
| 22 | However , the diversity of the range of information and its potentially extensive scope do require consideration of the methods by which the data may be collected and thereby offers an opportunity for the development of more creative ways of defining and discussing with older people these various areas of their lives . |
| 23 | Generally any firm receiving government assistance experiences a reduction in its costs which is unavailable to its competitors , and thereby achieves a competitive advantage . |
| 24 | It seems that the country which boasts of having more art that any other European country , and thereby justifies having some of the most restrictive laws in Europe to stop the export of works of art , is incapable of looking after this unparalleled wealth . |
| 25 | Even if the escaping water flows into a carbide factory and thereby generates gas which causes a tremendous explosion it is unlikely that much will be achieved by seeking to draw distinctions between what is natural and foreseeable . |
| 26 | Bourgeois ideology takes over the legitimizing functions of traditional society and thereby keeps power relations inaccessible to analysis and public consciousness . |
| 27 | This section will attempt to demonstrate how the Bank of England operates in the sterling money markets and thereby influences the level of interest rates in those markets . |
| 28 | However , he does use his recollection of the journey over Ratagan , his eyes filled with mountains , to reflect in the Journey generally upon the condition of remoteness as it affects human beings , and thereby touches the core of his reasons for travelling . |
| 29 | The effect of placing the short sentence at the end is powerful : whereas other sentences relate the setting to the observer , this one relates the observer to his setting , and thereby summarizes what has been implied in the rest of the paragraph . |
| 30 | It has survived with the tenacity of life itself , and thereby becomes the justification for the creation of a ‘ god-based ’ religion that would ultimately appeal to all people . |