Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb base] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The purchaser may have no confidence in either the vendor 's ability or the vendor 's intention to fully and properly disclose the liabilities of the company . |
| 2 | There is no more exacting a yardstick of free-market principles than the pop charts , where the successful bask unashamedly in the spotlight and conspicuously consume the fruits of their success , while scant sympathy is expended on the failures . |
| 3 | render invisible the vast amount of avoidable harm , injury , and deprivation imposed on the ordinary population by the state , transnational and other corporations , and thereby remove the effects of these ‘ crimes ’ from the causal nexus for explaining ‘ conventional crimes ’ committed by ordinary people . |
| 4 | Each side would like mutual disarmament , but will be deterred from making any move in that direction by the belief that the other side would cheat , and thereby gain an arms advantage . |
| 5 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 6 | If dull , cryptic animals live on after their reproductive phase is over they , by contrast , only serve to increase the population density of their kind and thereby increase the chances of a predator finding them , despite their camouflage . |
| 7 | However , by adept diplomacy , he was able to impose a form of pax Britannica on what had hitherto been a turbulent part of Africa and thereby maintain the conditions best suited for fostering trade . |
| 8 | Intensive training routines cause the release of growth hormone from the pituitary gland , but insulin can block the release of this hormone and thereby nullify the effects of training . |
| 9 | In Darwinian terms , once again , cats that did this were more likely to maintain their social relationships and thereby derive the benefits that such relationships provide than cats that did not . |
| 10 | Experience can confirm theories , and thereby confirm the sentences of which the theories are constructed , but it can not confirm those sentences singly and directly . |
| 11 | Its principal avowed aim was to give legislative form to the decision , contrary to the recommendation of the Law Commission , 46 and thereby allow the parties in these ‘ tragic cases ’ the dignity of a decree of nullity so that , if thought fit , provision for ancillary relief could be made by the court , and the unsavoury examination of their sexuality , rendered necessary if the only recourse were a declaration of status , could be avoided . |
| 12 | There is therefore a clear place for an EC policy to oversee State aids , and so to ensure that they do not unjustifiably favour one member 's industry at the expense of another 's , and thereby mitigate the intentions of EC competition policy . |
| 13 | The Library Association sought to clarify the matter and thereby safeguard the librarians ' position , and sponsored an amendment which was put forward by Lord Peston in the House of Lords . |
| 14 | Third parties are able to accede to the Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the [ Panama ] Canal and thereby accept the rights and obligations of the regime . |
| 15 | If these Institutions should become established throughout the kingdom , there is good reason to hope they will produce an happy change in the general Morals of the People , and thereby render the Severities of Justice less frequently necessary . |
| 16 | The paper praised Biograph for ‘ having opened up a new vein for motion picture subjects ’ , argued that ‘ no orator , no editorial writer , no essayist could so strongly and effectively present the thoughts that are conveyed in this picture ’ , and concluded that it was ‘ another demonstration of the force and power of motion pictures as a means of conveying ideas ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ The knowledge society ’ requires new forms of dialogue between professionals and citizens , if society is to comprehend and effectively confront the problems facing it . |
| 18 | The model shows that unless there is ‘ compensatory management ’ , then damming the rivers will turn the lake saline , reduce its level , kill the present vegetation and effectively banish the birds . |
| 19 | Only as a service run for Stirling students , by Stirling students can the Association democratically , efficiently and effectively meet the needs and requirements of the ever-changing campus population . |
| 20 | A starfish on the reef can crawl across a clam , fasten its tube feet on either side of its gape and slowly wrench the valves apart to feed on the flesh within . |
| 21 | Ensuring that the connector is exactly perpendicular to the ribbon cable place the whole assembly into a vice and slowly squeeze the parts together . |
| 22 | Understandably , therefore , people take success as it comes and rarely consider the ingredients of the success nor how to replicate it . |
| 23 | It was a common sight then to see several boys , myself included , stand at the pavement 's edge , take out our little ‘ Willies ’ — raise them on high for elevation , and suddenly direct the streams of urine on to the watching , gaping girls . |
| 24 | By careful observation of the appearance of these features as the Moon went through its monthly changes of phase , Galileo was able to estimate the lengths of the shadow cast by the uplands under various degrees of illumination by the Sun , and so calculate the heights of the mountains . |
| 25 | In theory , the best method of control is to shorten the life of the adult , vector mosquitoes , and so prevent the parasites from completing their life cycle . |
| 26 | The main problem of an edge interpretation is that some form of intelligence is necessary to add the material between edges and so remove the lines that are naturally hidden by the surrounding solids and surfaces . |
| 27 | They now point to another threat : that the Americans will use the Gulf battlefields to test new weapons and so keep an arms race going , for quality if not quantity . |
| 28 | Conversely , a credible purchaser following the proactive approach may be able to persuade the target 's shareholders of the merits of its offer ( for example , a strong strategic fit and synergistic benefits reflected in its offer price ) and so discourage the shareholders from approaching other possible purchasers and risk damaging the business through a loss of confidence . |
| 29 | Thus issue of pasting in photographs etc. would be resolved and so increase the chances of having the complete story . |
| 30 | The slimmer does n't have to guess the amount of food eaten because it is all weighed out and there is no temptation to have one extra mouthful and so ruin the chances of successful weight loss . |