Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | An almost identical Bill was introduced as a private member 's Bill in the 1973–74 session and successfully completed its passage through the House of Lords , when it fell at its Second Reading in the House of Commons on the dissolution of Parliament . |
| 2 | Family planning is not just used for limiting unwanted pregnancies ; it can also be used to time the arrival of a wanted child and thereby increase its chances of survival . |
| 3 | The fact that the maintenance of the hunting bands depended on a traumatic event and its consequences meant that those bands had a reason for needing to repeat the trauma , or at least some effective representation of it , and thereby to perpetuate its consequences — the taboos forbidding incest and parricide . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The latter is the case when antibiotics are taken which affect the natural balance of healthy organisms in the gut and thereby reduce its digestive capability for a while . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | These are the values and maxims which are common to a community and thereby constitute its ‘ common sense , ( see also Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca , 1971 ; Ferelman , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With a rattlesnake bite there is massive swelling around the bitten part with the flesh turning blue , green , purple or black , with livid blotches and blisters , and this gradually spreads throughout most of the body , affecting the heart and eventually stopping its action . |
| 12 | With a further increase in temperature the rod straightens under its own weight and eventually regains its rubber-like elasticity at slightly higher temperatures . |
| 13 | Depends what you mean by ‘ weather ’ , but yes , the countryside of Sussex is constantly suffering the attack of rain and the rain either has to soak into the ground where very often it erm dissolves material and eventually finds its way to rivers so that all rivers are carrying material from inland in solution out to the sea , or if erm you get very heavy rain , then the water actually runs off the surface of the ground , and as it runs off it will carry particulate material out into the rivers and then out to sea . |
| 14 | At about the same time , however , there was someone , somewhere , who was more than usually interested in chronicling Titford family details from past generations : a sheet of pale blue paper watermarked ‘ 1860 ’ was covered with names and dates by some mysterious hand , and eventually found its way into Benjamin 's own papers . |
| 15 | Lisboa went on to become the leading soccer club of the day and eventually changed its name to Benfica , the club renowned today in world soccer . |
| 16 | As you watch one tackling such a problem in a tank , you can detect the clicks of its discharges increasing as it identifies the outlines of the selected parking place behind it and slowly manoeuvres its great length into it without once touching the sides . |
| 17 | The Lombard capital was at Pavia , but Milan was rebuilt and slowly regained its former significance . |
| 18 | Will it be ready to accept demilitarisation , adopt a neutral status , and fundamentally restructure its economic and other relations with Eastern Europe ? |
| 19 | For a discipline that generally deals simplistically with social relations , and rarely studies its own or its subjects ' histories , such an approach is especially important . |
| 20 | Christmas came , and the family groaned , and dourly baked its cakes and handed round presents ; birthdays came , and useful gifts were unfailingly proffered . |
| 21 | Many reckon the swinging '60s ended the night followers of deranged hippy guru CHARLES MANSON broke into the house of Roman Polanski and brutally murdered its occupants — including Polanski 's pregnant young wife Sharon Tate . |
| 22 | Ken Livingstone , of course , writes a column for the paper , and so gets its unstinting support : ‘ We 're right behind Ken Livingstone … we reckon he 's just the man for the job . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | These , together with procedural irregularities ( discussed below ) were categorised by Lord Diplock in Anisminic v. Foreign Compensation Commission ( C.A. , 1968 ) as situations where a body might exceed its jurisdiction and so lose its legal power to act . |
| 26 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 27 | It will achieve this not through seeing itself as a piece of concrete , proprietary estate , as an end in itself ; rather it is a moving organisation for progress , existing for its future not its present , and achieving its future , and so fulfilling its raison d'etre , in aspiration for , and achievement of , improvement . |
| 28 | As the political assimilative into which were absorbed the opinions , convictions and energies which would otherwise have been available to impel Owenism and so to maximise its chances of attaining its goal , industrial democracy , the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill demands attention . |
| 29 | Although the charge could be laid that CCM depends upon the imitation of other forms , so great is its variety and so gifted its musicians that it can hardly be accused of lacking originality . |
| 30 | The phrases in this second category can be completely eliminated by re-phrasing the sentence and so improving its construction and sense . |