Example sentences of "and thereby [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a moderately seasonal environment , in which several species produce lleshy fruits , there might be expected to be selection for a particular species to fruit out of step with the others , and thereby avoid competition with other species for dispersers . |
| 2 | Mr Robertson told the second and final day of a hearing by the board 's video appeal committee that St Theresa was portrayed in mystical ecstasy — using pain to place herself at the mercy of her subconscious and thereby contemplate Jesus on the Cross . |
| 3 | For social norms to function as social pressures , they must be internalized , and thereby form part of the individual 's cognitive beliefs . |
| 4 | " Feelings Groups " in which a regular group of people in early recovery meet in a group , supervised by a professional counsellor , to discover and express their feelings in a safe environment and thereby gain awareness and practice for the awareness and expression of those feelings in the " real " world . |
| 5 | Answer guide : As the cost of the goods sold , especially with a small business , is often calculated by taking the opening stock plus purchases less closing stock , the effect would be to reduce the cost of sales figure and thereby increase profit . |
| 6 | One views unusual vertical arrangements with suspicion , presuming that they are made so as to prevent others entering the industry , to raise margins and thereby increase profits at the expense of consumers . |
| 7 | This would conduct a continuing survey of administrative structures with two purposes in mind : a ) to produce information and thereby increase openness ; b ) to carry out inquiries and offer advice to central government and other public authorities . |
| 8 | These various economic indicators ( past , present and projected into the future ) are used in country risk assessment and thereby aid banks in their loan management . |
| 9 | In retrospect , our attempts to prevent recurrence should , perhaps , have been directed at identifying and manipulating ( by increasing the amounts of inhibitors or decreasing the amounts of promotors ) nucleating factors that induce crystal , and thereby gall stone , formation from supersaturated bile . |
| 10 | The level of understanding they need to play an active part in the process and thereby challenge decisions taken is often underacknowledged . |
| 11 | By de-recognizing these representatives , employers can effectively ignore their obligations in Europe and thereby deny workers ' rights accepted as basic conditions in the eleven other member states . |
| 12 | The general attempt to do this will drive the interest rate on bonds down and thereby stimulate investment expenditure and hence aggregate demand . |
| 13 | This committee , like the CNAA , gives the approval necessary before a course can be funded ( and thereby receive students ) . |
| 14 | In Europe a number of countries participate in the European Monetary System which attempts to stabilise exchange rates and thereby facilitate trade and investment flows between trading partners . |
| 15 | Dates for this year were already booked but much work is going on in the background to see how possible it is to reduce the number of reunions and thereby enable members to meet more old friends . |
| 16 | Her main motive was simple : to retrieve the ring and thereby enable Rick to make peace with his family . |
| 17 | This regulation was exploited by over 1,000 pro-Indian individuals and organizations each applying for the opportunity to participate in the hearings and thereby assist Harper in delaying a vote . |
| 18 | If the NTB is removed , the firm could increase exports and thereby expand output to Q2 which would reduce price to P2 . |
| 19 | The promoter is able to purchase such merchandise in bulk and thereby pass savings on to the customers who feel that they are getting good value for money . |
| 20 | The assumption of rational expectations implies that we can write , and thereby derive equations ( 3.16 ) and ( 3.14 ) as the rational expectation consumption model . |
| 21 | When designing your garden , plan to include shrubs like pyracantha and Berberis darwinii that give flowers all year round and thereby provide food for wildlife . |
| 22 | SERAFIN : And thereby have time and energy left to enjoy the open fire which is by our very preference not there to enjoy ? |
| 23 | It is when we use our uniqueness to feel ‘ better than ’ that we separate ourselves from others and thereby create misery and suffering . |
| 24 | This agency , supported by the towns of Brighton and Hove , is sponsored by the local business , with the aim of advising people willing to form their own business and thereby create jobs . |
| 25 | On Oct. 29 , however , Kim declared that he would not enter the contest , leading to speculation that he had bowed to pressure from Roh , whose administration had worked closely with Daewoo and who was known to be concerned that Kim 's intervention could split the conservative vote and thereby allow Kim Dae Jung to win the election . |
| 26 | Secondly , the procedure can be divorced from the normal day/night cycle , and thereby allow insemination of eggs at a time which permits study of a subsequent developmental stage during normal working hours . |
| 27 | Yet another type of vocabulary can have difference in meaning for patient and nurse and thereby give rise to difficulties — words describing parts of the body , though having a particular anatomical reference , do not necessarily have that reference for lay people , even intelligent lay people . |
| 28 | Critics say the plan represents a flawed , ‘ image-above-all-else ’ , attempt by the Ministry to beef up the Prado 's revenue-generating potential , and thereby reduce State support . |
| 29 | In a mass , however , the birds sometimes defend the nowers and thereby reduce cross-pollination . |
| 30 | take an informed view of future trends , both technical and legislative , and thereby generate confidence that the proposed solution will not be rendered obsolete in the near future . |