Example sentences of "[noun sg] and hence a " in BNC.

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1 Reduction in death rates during the sixty-year period meant a larger labour force and hence a higher rate of economic growth .
2 It is now uncommon , and ill-advised , for the seller to agree to warranties being repeated at completion , since matters could happen between contract and completion completely outside its control ( indeed despite its best efforts ) which would result in a breach of warranty at completion and hence a potential damages claim from the acquirer .
3 The increase in the cost of repaying mortgages ( the greatest component of the average family 's budget ) caused a reduction in the amount of money available for general consumption and hence a reduction in living standards .
4 There were thus several attempts to avoid the conclusion that there must have been a big bang singularity and hence a beginning of time .
5 This latter implicitly calls for more funding and hence an even more costly burden of regulation .
6 This is a direct inflow of sterling and hence a direct increase in the money supply .
7 It can be noted that the ‘ Keynesian ’ perspective has links with the social optimality approach to public finance as it incorporates market ( economy ) failure and hence a role for government .
8 Finally , if there is a currency flow surplus and hence a net inflow of funds from abroad ( item 4 ) , this too will increase the money supply .
9 If the duty is framed in subjective terms , as we have seen , the practical effect is not to impose a duty but to confer a discretion and hence a management which is not disposed to sacrifice profits ( or otherwise depart from its chosen course ) in order to advance other interests will not be compelled to alter its behaviour .
10 The fact that small groups tend of necessity to comprise a membership of close kin favours the occurrence of kin selection and hence a high probability that cooperative behaviour will evolve .
11 One source of information could be knowledge of the variance of v , , for then we could obtain the variance of Y t , from our sample and hence an estimate of α t , from equation ( 3.13 ) .
12 In a technical text a reformulation may constrain the interpretation of the original for the purpose of ensuring a more accurate understanding of a particular concept and hence a greater understanding of the surrounding text .
13 In my opinion Lord Roskill was undoubtedly right when he said in the course of the passage quoted that the assumption by the defendant of any of the rights of an owner could amount to an appropriation within the meaning of section 3(1) , and that the removal of an article from the shelf and the changing of the price label on it constituted the assumption of one of the rights of the owner and hence an appropriation within the meaning of the subsection .
14 Greenstein has reminded us of Marshall McLuhan 's distinction between " hot " and " cool " media , " hot " media presenting a complete pattern of stimuli , " cool " presenting an incomplete pattern and therefore requiring greater processing and hence a higher level of engagement on the reader 's part .
15 There were undoubted gains for middle-class women in the nineteenth century , from a controlled access to divorce ( though one which sustained a double standard ) , the possibility of custody of children in the case of broken marriages , new rights in property and so on , and , no doubt many middle-class women , far from being ‘ redundant ’ , often participated in the major household decisions , supervised the servants , and increasingly gained access to birth control and hence a possibly less inhibited sexual pleasure .
16 Much of a manager 's use of statistics is to demonstrate to others that there is a definite pattern and hence an important message inherent in the data .
17 Upon consideration of the hypothesis that bile constituents and their intracolonic degradation products influence colon carcinogenesis , it has been proposed that subjects with a metabolic predisposition towards lowered serum cholesterol may also have an increased secretion of bile and hence an increased risk of developing colorectal carcinoma .
18 Because the assessment is internal , there is flexibility in its timing and hence a student can work towards a module at his or her own pace .
19 One of the main arguments for Big Bang was that the abolition of the minimum commission system would result in competition and hence a reduction in commissions and overall transactions costs for investors .
20 One possibility for the decrease in antral carcinomas over time is a decrease in H pylori infection and hence a fall in the prevalence of chronic gastritis .
21 The hardest problems are those where simple processes are hard to find , usually because of some complexity of the puzzle which makes it hard to see the effects of moves , or those where the basic coordinate system and hence a notation is hard to find .
22 It is a vast undertaking at considerable cost and hence a very brave venture in the current economic climate .
23 If the firm can expand its production it will lead to a reduction in average cost and hence a reduction in price , not only in the overseas market but also in the home market , which may lead to further domestic market expansion .
24 We therefore begin , in Chapter 2 , by examining the argument frequently put forward that the new technology is leading to wholesale job destruction and hence a permanently high level of unemployment .
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