Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 3 | The aim is always to guide students to understanding and thereby to help them minimize , if not avoid , errors . |
| 4 | Alternatively , planners may have a high potential demand for these services , and are therefore concerned to make them easier to use and thereby to expand their use . |
| 5 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 6 | His new habit of sleeping on and on to rid himself of as much time as possible and then of staying up drinking alone until very late only left him with none of his natural good time and hour upon hour of his bad . |
| 7 | The man who called himself John looked at her increasingly steadily , lengthily , certainly , and she began to hold his glances and eventually to return them . |
| 8 | This was the " United Front from Below " ; the attempt to separate Labour Party members from their leaders and eventually to recruit them into the Communist Party . |
| 9 | The therapeutic response must be tailored to these needs if we are economically and effectively to use our resources . |
| 10 | In his discussion of the problem , Otto Fenichel mentions ‘ food addicts ’ who ‘ are compelled violently and compulsively to devour whatever food is in reach at the moment . ’ |
| 11 | Anyway , he had done it very quietly and gently-not to wake me , I suppose … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 13 | It is the particular genius of British politics that the major parties have always managed to hold on to their respective extremists and so to draw their teeth . |
| 14 | Or magically to copy the essence of their being and so to own them within himself ? |
| 15 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 16 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 17 | And so to take what we would describe as a reasonable view on this , we say that if you know from evidence there are a number of concealed households , you should seek to accommodate them . |
| 18 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 19 | Normal co-ordinate analysis aims to provide a quantitative analysis of such mixing of local or group modes , and so to improve our understanding of the vibrational motions of a molecule . |
| 20 | What distinguishes visionary leadership is that through words and actions , the leader gets the followers to ‘ see ’ his or her vision — to see a new way to think and act — and so to join their leader in realizing it . |
| 21 | And so to stifle it . |
| 22 | The child who 's been burned learns to fear fire and so to treat it with respect . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Because these are so individually made , they 're rather like instruments which have been devised for a specific individual , and so to criticise them for details of design is hardly fair . |
| 25 | ‘ One of the company was called upon often without a word of preparation — to treat on a subject with which he was presumed to be familiar , and so to express himself that what he said could be discussed afterwards . |
| 26 | It is not unfair , then , to see the Webbs and the other early Fabians as they seem to have seen themselves : as philosopher-kings concerned to persuade people of sufficient education and standing to see Socialism through Fabian eyes and so to behold its full beauty . |
| 27 | The count of Toulouse was present to answer charges of heresy and so to protect himself and his lands against Simon de Montfort . |
| 28 | It is often tempting to think that some critic you have read can summarise your viewpoint better than you yourself can , and so to end your essay with a quotation from someone else . |
| 29 | Rousseau 's dislike of " sectional associations " sprang from what he saw as the growing tendency for people to identify themselves primarily with these associations and their interests rather than with the community as a whole , and so to forget their duties as citizens . |
| 30 | To clarify the responsibilities of agencies and so to make it easier to hold them to account for their performance . |