Example sentences of "and therefore had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old elderly , 75+ , are generally poorer than the young elderly as they retired when earnings were lower , and therefore had less savings , and lower or no occupational pensions . |
| 2 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 3 | Of course there were some people who , as in the ordinary world , were content with their lives and therefore had no wish to escape . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , those well-meaning missionaries , almost certainly believed in the ‘ god ’ themselves and therefore had no idea of what they were really doing . |
| 5 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 6 | Before the rise of the West European marriage pattern the aristocracy married earlier and therefore had more children than others . |
| 7 | These had been drawn without any reference to , or sometimes even without the knowledge of , their inhabitants and therefore had no national or even protonational significance for their populations ; except for colonial-educated and westernised native minorities of varying but generally exiguous size . |
| 8 | One of the reasons he was able to run his brothel so successfully was because he was homosexual , and therefore had no interest in the stock . |
| 9 | Neither company could compete with the newcomers by simple price reduction because Franklin and SelecTronics had both invested heavily in the underlying quality of their products and therefore had large costs to amortise . |
| 10 | Vos explains Abbey National 's rationale : ‘ We simply wanted to assist those customers who had to take out larger loans and therefore had higher repayments . ’ |
| 11 | Xinhua said that Legco was only a " consultative body " and therefore had no right to approve a resolution which ran counter to agreements and understanding reached between the UK and China . |
| 12 | the income arising to the trust has a foreign source and therefore had it been received by the beneficiary he would not have borne tax on it ; and 2. the benefit — the payment out by the trustees to the individual — is not received in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | Edward loved his youngest son , and therefore had a clause written into his will , stating that Swift Investments was to remain in the Swift family . |
| 14 | Now in planning the series of centenary lectures for this session , I was very delighted to discover that this was James Joyce 's centenary year , and therefore had the chance at last to promote a lecture on him . |