Example sentences of "and ultimately [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was after being cast adrift in a longboat by the mutinous crew of Bounty that Bligh managed to make his monumental open-boat voyage with a handful of faithfuls to safety , and ultimately revenge , on the Indonesian island of Timor .
2 By the eighth century the eastward drift of shingle along the coast had given natural protection to the spread of the salt marsh , and during the 12th and 13th centuries Pevensey Levels gradually changed from saltmarsh to reed and sedge meadows and ultimately pasture .
3 In particular , the induction , promotion , and progression of normal or inflamed squamous oesophageal epithelium to Barrett 's mucosa and ultimately adenocarcinoma as a result of chronic gastro-oesophageal reflux disease has varied but distinct morphological stages suitable for the study of sequential gene expression .
4 It was unfortunate then that Virgin 's case should be complicated by , and ultimately hinge upon , another , far less public , contractual dispute .
5 It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social
6 Part of the process of whisky production includes converting the starch in the grain to sugar so that fermentation and ultimately distillation can take place .
7 A policy which will consider not only air pollution , but problems such as energy efficiency , safety , noise , the implication of different systems of transport on cities and the countryside and ultimately society at large , to establish which are the most environmentally sound and economically efficient methods of moving from A to B for the sake of both humans and the planet .
8 One threat comes from Europe 's desire to carry its Euro-integration into foreign policy , security policy and ultimately defence policy .
9 A week before the summit the French President , François Mitterrand , and the German Chancellor , Helmut Kohl , had on Dec. 6 addressed a joint open letter to their EC colleagues containing proposals for political union , notably the development of common foreign , security and ultimately defence policies .
10 Deprived of attention , the dog should then quieten down quite quickly , and ultimately behaviour of this kind can be overcome if you then return home without allowing the dog out of the vehicle on this occasion .
11 I should like to commend to Members the text of the Inaugural meeting of the BIE in London in 1927 much of which is as relevant today as it was then and it will only be by the commitment of you the members that the Institute will improve and ultimately progress .
12 The main trends could be seen in efforts to reduce the role of the state in economic life ; to introduce elements of ‘ free market forces ’ into previously regulated rural and urban enterprises ; to reduce wastage , inefficiency and ‘ red tape ’ and to promote the ‘ entrepreneurial ’ spirit in order to raise production levels and ultimately living standards across China .
13 They formed gases and ultimately amino acids , the so-called building blocks of life .
14 Less severe forms of sanction include rebuke , withholding of praise and demanding repetition of work ; in more serious cases there may be referral to senior staff , detention , putting a pupil on report , writing to parents and calling them into school , referring the pupil to a special unit in the school and ultimately exclusion from school .
15 Demonstrators can rise to the ranks of manager , and ultimately distributor , which brings with it a company car .
16 However , in general , the methods traditionally used by engineers to manage and control the large number of complex and interacting factors contributing to design tend to be qualitative and involve value judgements , the lessons of experience and ultimately pragmatism .
17 Because of their superior strength and durability , iron and ultimately steel ( the alloy with carbon ) largely replaced copper-based alloys as the preferred materials for the manufacture of many functional items such as tools and weapons .
18 I am , in some strange way reminded of the enigma of mortality and immortality , of birth , life , growth and ultimately death .
19 This production charts her struggle with , and ultimately victory over , the circumstances which threaten to destroy her .
20 Our firms which export to the US may have to raise their American prices , which could lead to fewer sales , cuts in production and ultimately job losses .
21 Such a defamation might cause injury to the business goodwill of the corporation , and ultimately loss to the company 's shareholders through a diminution in turnover and/or profits .
22 A long history of water surpluses over much of the area of the Outer Hebrides has led to severe leaching of many Hebridean soils , and to the formation of peaty podzols , gleys and peaty gleys and ultimately peat itself ( Hudson et al .
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