Example sentences of "and therefore [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a deterioration in the balance of payments position was usually followed by economic policies designed to curtail credit and spending , and therefore support operations in the gilt-edged market would be somewhat counter-productive and inconsistent with overall economic policy . |
| 2 | The turbo engines have a much smaller frontal cross-section than their reciprocating forebears and therefore require modifications to the centre section , bulkhead , bearers and nacelles . |
| 3 | Unlike the others who appear and disappear as fashion and progress dictate , children occupy a permanent place in the list partly because of their continuing presence as a potential sub-class , partly because they have never protested and mainly because it is assumed that in favourable circumstances they will become men and therefore require attention . |
| 4 | ‘ The aim is simply to achieve maximum availability and therefore maximise sales . |
| 5 | ‘ The days of two-hour training sessions have long gone as players turn up in better physical condition and therefore know fitness work has to be done . |
| 6 | The first draft provides guidance on the auditor 's responsibilities relating to the audit of figures from preceding periods which are required to be included in , and therefore form part of , the current financial statements . |
| 7 | ( Many managers ca n't be bothered to do any research and therefore make decisions they can hardly support . ) |
| 8 | Erm , how about economies of scale , you said that was important the increase in manufacturing trade , you know , implies that products will be produced at a lower unit value , and therefore benefit consumers and er , therefore increase his trade cos consumers will buy the cheapest product if that comes from abroad , so be it . |
| 9 | To them Jesus is someone with special powers , almost like a hypnotist , who could place inside a person the belief that he or she could be healed and therefore show faith . |
| 10 | The current year basis of assessment is not an actual basis of assessment unless a 31 March year end is selected , and therefore tax retentions will remain complex to calculate . |
| 11 | This debate has its origins in Laski 's deprecation of the narrow social basis of recruitment into the higher civil service in Britain , making it impossible for such people to understand working-class problems ( Laski 1938 ) ; and Kingsley 's prediction that an unrepresentative bureaucracy would block radical reformist policies and therefore threaten democracy ( Kingsley 1944 ) . |
| 12 | Behavioural theorists add that tall structures impose rigid supervision and control and therefore block initiative and ruin the motivation of subordinates . |
| 13 | The essential feature of the gold standard was that each country 's currency had a fixed value in terms of gold ( i.e. gold was the numeraire ) , and therefore exchange rates were effectively fixed . |
| 14 | Meta-analysis , a statistical technique used to pool results of studies and therefore yield estimates based on samples of thousands rather than tens , allows for a re-evaluation of the predictive validity of selection methods . |
| 15 | Montague grammars , by contrast , characterise at most context-sensitive languages , and therefore yield decision procedures for grammaticality . |
| 16 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 17 | This could lead to suspicion : two people complained that colleagues thought they might ‘ over-identify ’ and therefore lack objectivity . |
| 18 | These present few problems with the requirement for a high vacuum ( though volatile solids may need to be cooled ) , and they give the highest possible density of sample , and therefore signal strength , but it must be remembered that the atomic environment includes neighboring molecules or ions . |
| 19 | If we do n't succeed in this then we may require other people to act as our parents , or we may regard others as a threat to this self-sufficiency and therefore avoid intimacy . |
| 20 | While such studies as these do bring out the peculiar status of the causatives make and have ( which , I would agree , do involve a closer bond between the causative event and the event caused ) , they are nevertheless based on abstract semantic categories which have been set up a priori in logico-truth-conditional terms — Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 237 ) aptly characterizes them as " ready-made labels " — and therefore lose sight of the fact that each individual language is a system where meaning is bonded to form in permanent and idiosyncratic fashion ( cf. the comments on Ransom 1986 in the Introduction ) . |
| 21 | Five of the eight YACs contain the 4.0 kb EcoRI KOX2-hybridising fragment indicative of ZNF11A in 10p11.2 , and therefore contain cluster A sequences . |
| 22 | Shop stewards very occasionally may rely on power to ‘ bully ’ members on the shop floor ; most shop stewards hope that members will accept their guidance as industrial relations ‘ experts ’ and therefore exert influence through expert power . |
| 23 | Spiritually , we may be out of fellowship with God and therefore find fellowship with our partner difficult . |
| 24 | Skill descriptions are generalisable in that human operators have characteristic abilities and limitations and therefore have tendencies to perform in the same way . |
| 25 | They are there to make your Cosmos Holiday booking easy and most of them will be directly connected to our computer via our Viewdata system and therefore have access to all the latest information , prices and holiday offers at the touch of a button . |
| 26 | Choice of Stage II programmes is required of Stage I students by a common deadline date , week 7 of term 2 in what is normally their first year , so that student numbers on modules , and therefore resource requirements , for the following year can be forecast in advance . |
| 27 | So that it , it would actually fit the conditions in the south in terms that we are , you 're moving into an area of , of higher tenancy and therefore rent reduction , interest rate reduction is , would have a significant effect . |
| 28 | Wages as such and therefore wage differentials do not exist in many kibbutzim . |
| 29 | Even specimens which have a sparse covering of spinelets and therefore resemble G. arcticus can be distinguished by the multipointed crown of the spinelets and by the occurrence of spinelets in the interradial areas . |
| 30 | This classification is only for convenience : top fruits , such a figs , mulberries , quinces and hazel nuts , frequently produce several main stems and therefore resemble shrubs , while apples , pears , plums and peaches are often grown in short-stemmed forms known as bushes ( not to be confused with bush fruit , an alternative term for some soft fruits ) . |