Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is vital information for any understanding of prehistoric motivation and vastly increases the range of data available from a ceremonial site . |
| 2 | But if this food is in short supply and the whole population is in danger of dying out , then cannibalism makes sense : it maximises the food supply and vastly increases the chance that some at least of the tadpoles will survive . |
| 3 | Unless Council has a change of heart , however , and both publishes details of the results of the consultation and properly addresses the legitimate concerns expressed , it may find the changes fail to win the backing of the people who matter — the nurses themselves . |
| 4 | Unlike the central character struggling in the movement of history in its unfolding , the communist narrator , distanced from the events themselves , coolly and relentlessly exposes the myths and illusions of the period with the hindsight of history . |
| 5 | Cranmer , who will be 78 on September 10 , is mentally alert and avidly follows the fortunes of his beloved Warwickshire through the newspapers . |
| 6 | It works at a warm temperature and vigorously turns the sugars in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide , producing at the same time ripe fruity aromas that add to the pleasure of ale drinking . |
| 7 | And thence begins the ecological richness of Africa . |
| 8 | The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other . |
| 9 | But Poulantzas argues that the attribution of the power to manipulate to the ruling class elevates it to the status of a subject — an agent who does things — and thereby reintroduces the idea of collective intensions which cry out for individualist explanation . |
| 10 | This section will attempt to demonstrate how the Bank of England operates in the sterling money markets and thereby influences the level of interest rates in those markets . |
| 11 | However , he does use his recollection of the journey over Ratagan , his eyes filled with mountains , to reflect in the Journey generally upon the condition of remoteness as it affects human beings , and thereby touches the core of his reasons for travelling . |
| 12 | It has survived with the tenacity of life itself , and thereby becomes the justification for the creation of a ‘ god-based ’ religion that would ultimately appeal to all people . |
| 13 | As we shall see in Chapter 6 , trading in existing stocks helps to maintain their liquidity , makes them attractive to savers and thereby lowers the cost to borrowers of raising new capital in this way . |
| 14 | An increase in the anticipated growth of the money supply raises the anticipated inflation rate and thereby lowers the attractiveness of holding the proceeds of output sales . |
| 15 | This lack of formal analysis leaves the dynamic features of the theory inadequately specified , and thereby limits the relevance of claims it makes to explain the historical evolution of the firm . |
| 16 | If the motor is operating as part of a position control system the Pull.out torque must be Produced at all speeds ; any surplus of motor torque over load torque accelerates the system to a higher speed and thereby reduces the positioning time . |
| 17 | For Gordon it is fallacious to say that if a tribunal blunders in its estimation of the factors involved in a subject-matter properly before it and thereby misconceives the questions that it should consider , that it thereby exceeds its jurisdiction . |
| 18 | There are plenty of interfering factors but these are inevitably to some extent weakened by a rational understanding of them , at least when this engages appropriately with our basic conatus ( or effort to preserve our own nature ) and thereby acquires the requisite emotional power . |
| 19 | The general justification for having a system of punishment must therefore be forward-looking and primarily reductivist : based on the claim that punishment does something to reduce the incidence of crime , and thereby prevents the diminution of some other people 's positive freedom . |
| 20 | It devalues this life , offers a delusional picture of the world , and thereby intimidates the independent use of intelligence . |
| 21 | The reader is always aware that although he knows and mostly likes the people he is writing about , he is not necessarily taken in by their ideas . |
| 22 | Beyond the joining of the rivers , now called the Tisza , the route turns north towards Russian and eventually becomes the frontier between Hungary on the left bank and the Soviets on the right . |
| 23 | From the river the trail goes to Beeston Crag , to the west of Peckforton Castle and eventually joins the road above Higher Burwardsley . |
| 24 | The Mid-Atlantic Ridge will play an important part in our study of the nature of volcanism , and so will another , the East Pacific Rise , which runs up the eastern Pacific , and eventually intersects the North American continent in the vicinity of California . |
| 25 | As the stress level rises and eventually reaches the individual 's critical point a vast array of different physical , mental , or behavioural symptoms will occur to signal stress . |
| 26 | Cast out by his flock , who fail to persuade him that life is merely a question of survival , Jonathan continues to pursue excellence in flight , and eventually discovers the unlimited potential of being . |
| 27 | The contractile vacuole expands and eventually discharges the water it contains to the exterior through the cell membrane . |
| 28 | Graham Gooch turns and instinctively pushes the ball away from his stumps ( above ) , only to be given out as Australia captain |
| 29 | This contaminated water eventually resurfaces as a spring , and effectively poisons the plants all around . |
| 30 | But making permanent appointments to a group that has the authority to make decisions creates an elite , and effectively transforms the peer group into a hierarchy . |