Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb base] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auditors are not directly concerned with the solution of problems ; if they were ; they would become responsible for those solutions and thereby lose their objectivity and status to provide an independent examination and appraisal of a service . |
| 2 | The commission of crimes against them will have the effect of diminishing their positive freedom , to which they also have a right ; for example crimes of injurious violence reduce the victims ' freedom to operate physically free from pain , while property offences will deprive them of resources and thereby remove their freedom to choose to act in ways which require the use of those resources . |
| 3 | It is inevitable that they are attended by those whose prime motive appears to be to register their attendance and thereby retain their name on the roll . |
| 4 | The allocation to L Detachment of specialists taken from Special Service units would greatly increase the scope of the units ' training and thereby augment its value to men who inevitably gain versatility and resourcefulness . |
| 5 | ‘ Given the depressed state of the UK market , it was absolutely essential that we took this painful action to bring down our break-even point and thereby tailor our company to its potential markets . ’ |
| 6 | In the previous section we suggested that a government could use taxes and welfare benefits to redistribute income-earning potential and thereby enforce its value judgements about equity while leaving the market economy to take care of allocative efficiency . |
| 7 | ‘ I have viewed a number of plants where the inception of computer equipment is viewed as a way to further de-skill the worker , and thereby lower his wage , ’ Melman added . |
| 8 | ‘ God has not bestowed talent on me for me to dance attendance on a woman , and thereby waste my youth … . ’ |
| 9 | The research was supported by WACC and carried out by the Centre for Artistic and Cultural Research ( ceneca ) with the aim of encouraging TV networks to carry programmes that would improve the quality of young people 's lives and thereby enhance their contribution to national life . |
| 10 | In the absence of any significant anti-secretory effects , it seems likely that the beneficial action of cisapride reported in this study results from its prokinetic qualities , which might enhance the clearance of acidic gastric effluent from the bulb , and thereby reduce its duration of contact with the duodenal mucosa . |
| 11 | Applying this to [ 14 ] , we could say that the point of producing [ 14a ] was to deliberately mystify the audience and thereby capture their attention . |
| 12 | As Laurence Martin has said : ‘ It is impossible to refute entirely the criticism that the various strategies of limitation may appear to make the world safe for nuclear warfare and thereby hasten its onset ’ ; but he concluded : ‘ The proper question may therefore be not , should we contemplate limited nuclear war , but , should we consider the ways of limiting the nuclear war which is henceforth always a possibility ’ ( Howard , 1979 , pp. 119 and 120 ) . |
| 13 | When we join the group as a new member we may sense these norms and question their relevance but , if group membership is vital to our role acquisition , we will accept the irrelevant norm merely to establish our intention to conform and thereby hasten our acceptance by the group . |
| 14 | She decided that the best means to this end was to learn Re 's secret name and thereby transfer his power to herself . |
| 15 | Further , the Leader herself has spent many toiling hours of late calling on the peoples of Eastern Europe to hold elections and thereby demonstrate their attachment to the fundamentals of democracy . |
| 16 | Further , the Leader herself has spent many toiling hours of late calling on the peoples of Eastern Europe to hold elections and thereby demonstrate their attachment to the fundamentals of democracy . |
| 17 | A police constable caused great concern with his assertions , made for the first time some years ago , that some Kent police officers were offering inducements to prisoners to make false admissions to offences , and to confess to crimes that they had not committed , so that the force could then add to the number of crimes they had ‘ detected ’ , and thereby improve their crime clear-up statistics . |
| 18 | The Commonwealth became to politicians and men of affairs what Indirect Rule was to the DO — a chance to display those qualities which justified them in the possession of an empire , and thereby ensure its perpetuation . |
| 19 | On the face of it , these early responses look most impressive : firm control of those involved in supplying and possessing drugs , an effort in the schools to dissuade young people from experimenting with drugs , and , finally , treatment and counselling faculties to help current users cope with this situation and eventually overcome their dependency . |
| 20 | When inhaled , the aromatic molecules of essential oils reach the lungs from where they diffuse across the air sacs into the surrounding blood capillaries ( which lie just under the surface of the sacs ) and eventually find their way into the main blood vessels from where they circulate in the blood and exert their therapeutic effect . |
| 21 | Political constraint is one of the problems that undermine the capacity of the mass media to appropriately and effectively fulfill their function of building democratic societies and protecting and defending human rights in Africa . |
| 22 | Stand with your right leg about 60cm ( 2ft ) in front of your left one , and slowly lower your body forwards until your right thigh is parallel to the floor . |
| 23 | Oliver began to recover and slowly regain his strength . |
| 24 | There are many others , all with their own special appeal , both on Mainland and amongst the other islands , but most anglers confine their activities to these five ; and rarely regret their decision to do so . |
| 25 | From January 1987 a system of periodic licensing was introduced , whereby nurses , midwives and health visitors wishing to remain on the SPR , and so maintain their eligibility to practise , must pay a periodic fee every three years . |
| 26 | Proteins can bind to sites on the DNA at the beginning of the gene — known as the promoter — and so initiate transcription ; on the other hand , there are proteins that can block transcription by binding near the promoter and so prevent its transcription . |
| 27 | When I remember the tears you shed I long to see you again and so make my happiness complete . |
| 28 | Because the broker deals only as principal , his client would not be able to read through his contract to the market ( and so require its performance ) if the broker defaults ; this contrasts significantly with the position on the London Stock Exchange . |
| 29 | The idea was to give small investors the chance to pool their money and so spread their risk and get better returns . |
| 30 | Ingenious mechanisms were invoked to collimate the winds and so focus their energy . |