Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb -s] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frost causes the bracken to die back and thereby opens up the canopy to let in more light . |
| 2 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 3 | One species of beetle in Brazil , when alarmed , immediately folds up its legs and flattens itself sideways , exposing its white underside and so takes on the appearance of a bird dropping . |
| 4 | A good catalogue , therefore , makes life easy for its user , and so builds up the supplier 's reputation . |
| 5 | THE second law of thermodynamics always arouses interest because it is the only widely applicable law of physics that is not symmetric under time reversal , and so singles out a particular direction of time . |
| 6 | Compact benefits students by offering them " value-added " jobs when they have attained their goals , and so opens up the realistic prospect of job satisfaction and career progression . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As one trade union succeeds in a wage claim and so moves up the ‘ league table ’ , other unions immediately put in similar wage claims in an attempt to restore their relative positions . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , that kind of writing went out of fashion almost instantly , and certainly in the nineteen twenties and thirties , was replaced by a completely different tradition , which has er , influenced our expectations and perhaps explains why the book seems so old fashioned . |
| 10 | It should be noted that this grouping of sixth-century metalwork includes nearly all of the known examples , and only raises again the question of how similar items have to be for us to be able to distinguish the skills of one workshop as opposed to the learned traditions of a single society . |
| 11 | Rust is inside the metal all the time and only shows when the ‘ silver ’ is worn off . |
| 12 | Since the acquisition of premises ( other than where the entrepreneur purchases the premises as a going concern and merely takes over an existing catering enterprise ) normally involves at least a change of use and often the development of the premises , planning permission is required . |
| 13 | the main difference is that the wine is fermented without the skins ( and thus contains virtually no tannin ) and at a lower temperature to preserve the delicate flavour and aroma . |
| 14 | This suggests that the group undergoing relaxation is associated with a dipole moment and thus rules out the phenyl ring libration as a likely process . |
| 15 | Besides which , butler 's argument really moves at the level of phenomenology only , as an account of the conscious character of desire , and hardly takes on the idea of someone like Spinoza that all activity at a deeper level is a manifestation of the organism 's disposition to preserve and enhance its own being . |
| 16 | It is , I think , the logical conclusion of the line in Enlightenment thought which has run from Rousseau through Nietzsche and Sartre — the strand of truly anarchic individualist thinking which avoids the vulgar Nozickian ‘ libertarian ’ path of concentrating on the freedom of certain selected institutions such as commercial companies , and genuinely exalts only the freedom of the individual . |
| 17 | Sometimes a family crisis such as the wife 's admission to hospital for an operation , or confinement , when mother-in-law comes to the rescue and willingly takes over the housekeeping , will draw them together , and help them to value each other as people for the first time ; but more often it is a gradual process , the slow demolition of long-held prejudices . |
| 18 | She has a good sense of humour and also shares quite a few of my interests . |
| 19 | This chapter discusses these forms of the logical schema and also shows how the data structures might be described to the database . |
| 20 | If we assume that bleomycin cuts best in regions of alternating purine and pyrimidine by virtue of their structure , then this explains why GpT and GpC are cut better than GpA and GpG , and also explains why a 5'-pyrimidine increases the rate of cleavage at these sites . |
| 21 | This summary of the Vale 's Environmental Charter follows this division , and clearly shows how the Vale 's policies are designed to protect and develop each aspect of the environment — both globally , and locally in this unique and beautiful area . |
| 22 | This brings the aircraft back into balance and instantly increases both the capacity and length of the cargo floor , or cabin if seats are to be installed . |
| 23 | The tousle-haired blonde in a tiny mustard top , and sawn off denims , gives a big teasing wink , and coyly carries on the act . |
| 24 | The Group Environmental Policy Committee had its first meeting on 21 May 1990 and now meets regularly every 3 months . |
| 25 | But last March AMD stole a tenth of this market within months of launching its version of the 386 , and now claims almost a third . |
| 26 | Chris bumped his head again while snorkelling and now has rather an impressive bandage ! |
| 27 | I 'm told that Brian Summers put up some money to get the company started and now has quite a significant slice of the Supersight action . ’ |
| 28 | He really is thrown in on the form of Jokester was out of the handicap when an excellent runner-up that day , and now races off a stone lower mark . |
| 29 | A less elaborate version is the book-label or book-ticket , which is smaller and often carries only the owner 's name . |
| 30 | For all its talk of fostering artistic freedom and widening participation in the arts , Jack Lang 's Ministry of Culture frowns upon middle-brow bourgeois culture and exclusively cultivates either the avant-garde or pop . |