Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proposal that public money should be spent on a measure which is likely to aggravate this position ( the low birth rate ) by making contraception universally available on request and thereby to affect adversely the continuity of the state , is one which we feel we can not endorse . |
| 2 | But I am not too keen on performances which concentrate entirely on rhetorical expression , and thereby lose both the singing quality , and the logic of the ‘ long line ’ . |
| 3 | The construction of the Suez Canal — which links the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea , thereby shortening considerably the shipping distance between Europe and the eastern continents — was commenced in 1859 , the same year as Charles Robert Darwin published his ‘ Origins of Species ’ which provoked a great deal of controversy . |
| 4 | Pulsatilla seemed to cover the case as it now presented and successfully treated both the anxiety and the palpitations . |
| 5 | the fostering of an impersonal approach to health and medical care , where the machine intrudes between the patient and the doctor , and may thereby affect deleteriously the development of caring personal relationships . |
| 6 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 7 | Their untrained but nervous eyes , and rumour , vastly exaggerated both the ferocity and size of the advancing army . |
| 8 | Sadly , the bar had closed and the staff had long since departed so the celebration pint of bitter had to be put on ice for another day . |
| 9 | When engineers go back to the drawing board and create a new design , they do not necessarily throw away the ideas from the old design . |
| 10 | It has more than fulfilled its founding fathers ' two objectives : to rebuild the economy of a shattered Europe , and to bury the hatchet between France and Germany and so bind together the nations of Europe that they would never go to war again . |
| 11 | O'Neill 's minor reforms or , as Utley perceptively describes it , his ‘ government by gesture ’ i served only to politicize further the frustration of the Catholic population , without making it any more committed to the Northern Ireland state . |
| 12 | These convictions had become sufficiently general amongst antislavery reformers by the mid-1820s that local associations in , for example , Norwich , Beverley , Hull and Whitby all dismissed comprehensively the argument in Cobbett 's Register and Blackwood 's that labourers in Britain suffered worse material conditions than West Indian slaves . |
| 13 | It was those two who invariably forgot to comply with Judith 's requests , while John and I usually showed up with the items , literally bringing home the bacon . |
| 14 | In any case , no head is powerful enough to carry effectively the sort of responsibility that the management of the National Curriculum , in the context of the rest of the Act , will bring . |
| 15 | I can only stress again the importance of using the higher figures . ’ |
| 16 | In particular the set of expression values is likely to be much restricted ( perhaps allowing only the Boolean values 0 and 1 ) . |
| 17 | Oriental rugs have a justifiable reputation for being extremely durable , but they are not indestructible , and proper care and maintenance will greatly enhance both the beauty and life of your rug . |
| 18 | Women 's seemingly paradoxical behaviour merely drives home the point that there are profound contradictions and complexities of position to be unravelled before we can get further in our understanding of the road to divorce . |
| 19 | Each mobile electron in the system is represented by a point in k space such that the vector from the origin to the point is proportional to the electron 's momentum , and so represents both the magnitude and direction of the momentum . |
| 20 | William himself , by comparison , seems to represent a remarkable degree of geographical stability : he was born and died in Islington , seems to have travelled but little , and apparently lacked either the desire or the need to move house every few years as his father had done . |
| 21 | Television , especially highlights both the strengths and defects of the modern player , and the papers continue the process of daily analysing players and teams . |
| 22 | These southern burials are clearly very different from the coordinated northern cemetery , obviously occurring once the suburbs themselves were virtually derelict . |
| 23 | She carried Wee Joe 's bowl to the kitchen table and they all watched as she gently moved away the bulb fibre . |
| 24 | They could already , of course , provide scholarships and other forms of support , but they had hitherto enjoyed neither the right nor the duty to provide secondary schools of their own . |
| 25 | Threading his way past the echoing warehouses , boarded shop fronts , and silent cafes , he returned to the concrete hut , only to find there the body of Philip Walton . |
| 26 | The deeper purpose of his novels was no more than one must expect from any responsible man who draws on his experience and knowledge of the world for readers who will rightly expect both the general and the particular in the fiction . |
| 27 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 28 | The legislature creates a rather abstract mandate and an agency to implement it , while only defining explicitly the offences which give rise to prosecution . |
| 29 | The Sensorites ’ combined power of illusion is great enough to swamp even the Doctor s deductive abilities . |
| 30 | So Exodus 6:2–3 is telling us that what had hitherto possessed only the significance of a " label " , a way of addressing God , now became significant as a statement of the character possessed by the God who was so named — that he is the holy Redeemer and Judge , ever present with his people . |