Example sentences of "therefore [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But with the exception of a little doubt as to what the relatively vague adjective hardy might mean , the husband eventually proves a worthy man against all of these criteria : clever enough to be a successful merchant and therefore rich ; hospitable and generous ; and apparently able to fulfil his wife 's demands of him in bed .
2 This approach , in which lay the seeds of later scholasticism , revived the notion of truth as an objective reality , attainable in the end by human endeavour ; its appeal to the optimistic humanism of the twelfth century was therefore strong .
3 If you are laying your cocktail party nibbles out on a table that the guests will see , it is a very good idea to have a centre-piece , to give a focal point to the display and some height as most nibbles are small and therefore low .
4 At the same time , formal sector employment , never very large , has fallen some 10 per cent since the mid-1970s because of economic stagnation , and the informal sector is now overcrowded and income therefore low .
5 The 1960s were therefore low on space sci-fi until 2001 gave a new start to the genre .
6 In addition , some studies used inbred lines of Drosophila , which are liable to give artefactual positive correlations between fitness components , and are therefore unsuitable for testing evolutionary theories of ageing .
7 : where confidentiality is required , speech input could be overheard and therefore unsuitable ;
8 As no form of updating had taken place the room was in need of considerable physical repair … much of the stock dated back to the school 's opening and was therefore unsuitable for the pupils and curriculum of today .
9 Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints .
10 Thus , fur skins are not to be regarded as agricultural products , since they do not appear in Annex II , and therefore normal competition rules apply ( see the Hudson 's Bay case study pp. 208 — 12 ) .
11 It is therefore normal practice to provide a more detailed cost breakdown under key cost headings arising on contracts or development .
12 Therefore normal in-house arrangements with the Council 's Medical Adviser and other bodies will be suspended during the pilot project .
13 It is therefore normal to quote the standard molar enthalpy change for a process .
14 It is therefore normal to provide in the Articles that the consent of the equity investor or its director will be required before the payment of any dividends .
15 Therefore total weight is 240 tons .
16 Much high technology medicine is therefore palliative , alleviating the effects of the disease by relieving pain or restoring mobility .
17 Therefore political and economic accounting of the costs and benefits of soil conservation programmes for others outside the directly affected areas is potentially relevant .
18 The configuration and deployment of diving bells is defined , but in the air range it is not clear cut and therefore controversial .
19 Their method was inductive and was therefore controversial : laws based on evidence from the past can not rule out a priori the occurrence of a radically different future .
20 His defence is therefore complete .
21 He has allowed The Art Newspaper to republish what he said in the Dalmatian ( therefore Croatian ) periodical Nedjeljna Dalmacija last 5 September , because , he says , everything he said then remains true today .
22 Posthumous birthday and get well cards are therefore understandable if you take this view .
23 It is therefore understandable that , even among those who now happily accept the idea of hypnotherapy , there is still a certain amount of reservation about the concept of regression as part of the healing process .
24 It is therefore understandable that very many taboos and prohibitions have developed around physical exposure , whether it is bodily nakedness or attending to personal grooming .
25 The results are in tabular form and are therefore understandable to the user .
26 The dead was Akhu existed n the heaven as stars around the pole star and were therefore eternal and unchanging .
27 Items not ordinarily installed are therefore standard-rated .
28 At present , people living in mental hospitals are therefore disadvantaged compared with those living at home , who can be registered to vote without any test of competence .
29 It is therefore possible to say that any economic policy is an incomes policy , and in particular that any economic policy designed to prevent or reduce the rate of inflation is an incomes policy .
30 It also enabled them to show that the same processes had governed history from the earliest time and that a science of history was therefore possible .
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