Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] therefore [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlebrook said that the campaign amounted to a direct and therefore unlawful interference with its contracts of supply with supermarkets , but the Court of Appeal seems to have thought that this was overridden by the right of freedom of speech . |
| 2 | Without proper and relevant performance data about how a school is performing , it is not possible for parents to make an informed and therefore correct choice about a school . |
| 3 | One of the reasons for Bell Lawrie feeling that Brewin Dolphin was the right answer to its future was that their approaches are similar and therefore such integration as there needs to be is largely confined to systems . |
| 4 | Giant leaps into the unknown are dangerous and therefore wiser counsel may preach limited change from the existing position . |
| 5 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |
| 6 | Moore 's view is that it is a simple and therefore indefinable property . |
| 7 | An increasingly ergonomic and therefore telematic society keeps bodies in stasis while eradicating distance electronically . |
| 8 | Most of its requirements are incurably vague and therefore fair game for the most wilful of interpreters , others , such as the right of unrestricted travel or for paid holidays ( tell that to a Sudanese peasant ) , are totally impractical . |
| 9 | A very rich and therefore powerful man , as head keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert had the pick of all the prisoners ' possessions as well as the sale of concessions , be it beds , sheets , coals , drink , food , even a wench . |
| 10 | Not , as might be imagined , from the long-dreaded combined forces of Sega Megadrive , Nintendo Game Boy and the rest but from a far more insidious and therefore dangerous enemy — the government . |
| 11 | Through such mastery , the individual can achieve the moderation in behaviour to allow him/her to lead a tranquil and therefore moral life within a community of relationships . |
| 12 | All were concerned to establish the possibility of discontinuity in a history , as Althusser described it , no longer ‘ steeped in the ideology of the philosophy of the Enlightenment , i.e. in a teleological and therefore idealist rationalism ’ . |
| 13 | … if the approach is through the intellect rather than through intuition , that is , through a tangible and examinable process of understanding and thinking , rather than through an imaginative and emotional and therefore intangible process of relishing and enjoying , irrespective of whether or not there is full understanding ( p. 8 ) . |
| 14 | Making sense of persistent and therefore worrying disobedience can be made as simple as ABC . |
| 15 | Linguistically , the line acknowledges that the representation of Astrophil 's love — and what or who is not clear , Stella or his own self-absorption — may be feigned , a false and therefore different presentation of his love . |
| 16 | Simply because it does give a numerical score , rather than the subjective impression given by an interview , credit scoring may give a spurious and therefore dangerous impression of accuracy . |
| 17 | Of course , the inevitable questions of what that foundation should consist of and when it should be built are answered by the claim that the period of initial training is too short and therefore such knowledge must be provided earlier by the academic course or later by in-service courses . |
| 18 | Thus Lucas can be seen to be estimating a regression for each country in which that country 's deviation of real output from its natural level is regressed on its own lagged value and Lucas 's measure of the unpredictable and therefore unanticipated component of aggregate demand . |
| 19 | The point could be put differently by suggesting that in his notions of a " community of Christians " and " parochial units " he displayed little understanding of the nature of English life — his grasp of it was theoretical rather than actual ; just as he adopted almost too perfectly the dress and manners of an Englishman , so he offered an idealized and therefore unconvincing account of English society . |
| 20 | Faxing or telexing a 60–70 page document is a time-consuming and therefore expensive process , and always with that nagging uncertainty that one or two pages might not have transmitted properly . |
| 21 | It was unconditional and therefore unrepresentative loyalty . |
| 22 | ‘ to promote a common and therefore consistent basis for producing published and statistical financial information of a stewardship or control nature ’ . |
| 23 | One important difference between the two lists is that those in list ( a ) refer to internal events and states , whilst those in list ( b ) denote external and therefore observable behaviour . |
| 24 | Employees fear the unknown and therefore early training , progress reports and user involvement in the change process will help . |