Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That eventuality would have been a worry for the UN had the Bosnian Serbs said Yes and thereby set the scene for the biggest UN peacekeeping operation ever . |
| 3 | Moreover the Legal Aid Board , being in a position , as is rightly conceded , to waive observance of procedural formalities which exist solely for the board 's protection can do so by raising no objection to the proposed order and thereby obviate the necessity for any further inquiry before the suspended order takes effect . |
| 4 | On July 13 the South Korean National Assembly unanimously passed a bill which accepted the UN Charter and thereby opened the way for a South Korean application for membership , which was expected to be filed on Aug. 5 . |
| 5 | By measuring H pylori antibody titres in serum samples collected and stored between 1969 and 1990 , we aimed at describing the pattern of acquisition of H pylori infection over a 21 year period in an adult population and thereby to determine the explanation for the higher prevalence of H pylori antibody with increasing age found in Western society . |
| 6 | It is true , however , that taken as a whole , the 1947 Act created for the first time a comprehensive framework for planning and thereby laid the groundwork for a permanent and highly significant change in the public attitude to private property and its use and development . |
| 7 | Robinson became much more confident and outspoken in the 1950s and eventually criticized the NAACP for its gradualist policies . |
| 8 | To represent a happening as unforeseeable , however — and herein lies the explanation for the use of the infinitive with to — one must necessarily evoke a position before its occurrence : the stretch of time leading up to it must be evoked as containing no prior indication that it was going to occur . |
| 9 | Few Tories were quite as extreme as the Earl of Rochester , who at the renewal of hostilities in 1702 argued for a strictly limited naval war as the best way to check the power of France , and most recognised the need for some form of combined operations . |
| 10 | At best Gould was callous and ungenerous in ensuring that he did not receive the praise he deserved ; at worst he was deliberately playing on Lear 's weakness , and jealously guarding the limelight for his most ambitious publication to date . |
| 11 | The government 's measures to secure more planning permissions for housing development will go a long way to remedy the shortage of building land and so remove the occasion for windfall profits based on scarcity values . |
| 12 | Their advice was not wholly disinterested , however , since there seems to have been a move in the Conservative Party at this time to replace Baldwin as Party leader by Austen Chamberlain , and so prepare the ground for another Conservative/Liberal Coalition-a reversal , as Cowling puts it , of the verdict of the Carlton Club which had destroyed the Lloyd George Coalition . |
| 13 | Benny Alexander , the PAC 's secretary-general , claimed that the government 's action was motivated by a desire to force his organisation out of the negotiations and so smooth the way for an agreement that would be amenable to the ‘ white settler regime ’ . |
| 14 | The task of this chapter is to investigate the phenomenon of style in general terms , and so to prepare the ground for the analysis of its various aspects and manifestations in later chapters . |
| 15 | The group is focussing on cutting costs across its business , and has introduced new manufacturing technology to increase capacity and so reduce the need for subcontractors . |
| 16 | Abortifacient contraceptives , embryo experimentation and abortion itself deny the principle of the sanctity of life from conception onwards and so pave the way for euthanasia . |
| 17 | As it is , we regret that the printers , when they had the opportunity , did not make an end of the half-paid female labour and so established the principle for both sexes of " Equal work , equal pay " . |
| 18 | The introduction of software such as Harvard Graphics , Cricket Presents … and Aldus ' FreeHand has allowed users to put together excellent quality presentation material on their own computer systems and merely use the bureau for the output stage . |
| 19 | She entered the lift and impatiently pressed the button for the lower ground . |
| 20 | Two brisk , efficient looking nurses had taken Doyle 's vital signs , changed the plasma drip , and generally prepared the man for surgery . |
| 21 | The theorists were adamant , though , and thus began the hunt for the ‘ missing mass ’ — unobserved dark stuff that would bring W up to 1 . |
| 22 | It facilitates the development of a sophisticated financial system and thus avoids the need for a pure cash economy , i.e. payment in notes and coin only . |
| 23 | Clearly , however , the disputed collectorship was creating an unusually good opportunity for the enemies of the Montrose interest to split that interest and thus prepare the way for an attack upon it on a future occasion . |
| 24 | This may result in lower capacity and thus increase the inability for TI and NCM to respond to the needs of their exporting policyholders . |
| 25 | Essentially , Weber 's essay sets out to show how the mediaeval cities in Western Europe sustained a fundamental challenge to the feudal system which surrounds them , and thus paved the way for the subsequent development of a rational-legal social order . |
| 26 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British . |
| 27 | Membership of the European exchange rate mechanism is seen as the main constraint on all parties , holding back growth and thus reducing the scope for popular moves to cut taxes or increase public spending . |
| 28 | On July 9 a new city council of Milan was elected , replacing the council which had resigned in May [ see p. 38896 ] , and thus avoiding the need for new elections . |
| 29 | ’ WEU could establish a link between a Europe in the process of unification and an Atlantic Alliance in the process of transformation and thus provide the vehicle for a stronger Europe to contribute more to joint security WEU must be at one and the same time the means of allowing Europe to make its voice heard in a Euro-American dialogue ’ — it must never be forgotten that Europe must always have an input into that dialogue — ’ of which the Atlantic Alliance is the institutional framework and the instrument for making the most of the European contribution to the defence of the West This contribution of Europe is the more essential in that the American military presence on the continent of Europe , reduced since the war in the Gulf , will remain below what it was in the past Defence policy should continue to be made in the organisations which assure collective defence , NATO , and WEU . |
| 30 | Parents and pressure groups representing parents , were concerned that Social Services Departments were to ready to end parental contact with children in care , and thus pave the way for adoption . |