Example sentences of "thanks to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE welfare organisations in West Cumbria have been given a tremendous boost , thanks to the golfers who took part in last year 's Sellafield Pro-Am golf tournament . |
| 2 | To him the camera becomes a tool which allows him to express his thoughts , feelings and moods in direct connection with the world ; it allows his mind and spirit to react to and relate with the everyday world in a visual form thanks to the alchemy of photography . |
| 3 | To him the camera becomes a tool which allows him to express his thoughts , feelings and moods in direct connection with the world ; it allows his mind and spirit to react to and relate with the everyday world in a visible form thanks to the alchemy of photography . |
| 4 | Marshall remains at the Whitney , however , reportedly thanks to the threat of a lawsuit from Michael Ward Stout , the same attorney who represents the Basquiat estate . |
| 5 | Jaq gave thanks to the Master of Mankind for their arrival . |
| 6 | I was delighted to take over with the CIT in the UK in such good heart , locally and nationally , thanks to the initiatives set up by my predecessors being so well supported by the Uk Board , as well as Section Chairman and their committees . |
| 7 | They 're becoming even easier to pick up once delicensed nowadays , thanks to the invasion of the upstart Metrocabs , which drive like a Panzer , look like an undertaker 's second-best hearse and give the punters a ride which makes them think they 're in a telephone-box on castors . |
| 8 | Life in the rainforest is brutish and short , and most of the Kayan people I spoke to consider themselves a good deal better off than their forefathers — thanks to the logging . |
| 9 | Peter Rabbit turns 100 this year , but certainly does n't look his age , thanks to the commissioning of new animation . |
| 10 | Fortunately , the importance and individuality of chapel architecture is now being recognized , thanks to the work of writers and teachers such as John Hilling and professor Anthony Jones , of the Texas Christian University , who has spent numerous summers visiting and photographing chapels . |
| 11 | However , it has been good that , thanks to the work of Ronnie Martin and his helpers , we have been able to have some use of the building on Sundays for our expanding Learning Together programme . |
| 12 | Thanks to the work of the revisionists , no future history of the English Reformation will end in 1559 . |
| 13 | NT now also incorporates parallelism in its communications subsystem thanks to the work Sequent did on adding parallel streams — the ability to have multiple processors running in one stream — to Unix . |
| 14 | THANKS to the work of a Suffolk man and the company he founded a decade ago , an end could be in sight for a crisis affecting the coconut industry around the world . |
| 15 | The pulsar PSR 1913+16 and its compact companion form a binary pair whose orbital parameters are well known , thanks to the work of Taylor and his colleagues ( see Section 8.6 ) . |
| 16 | Thanks to the work of your moral forces , powered by the social change which always and only emerges through technological innovation , the future from which I come is not entirely uninhabitable . |
| 17 | Fran and Peter Carr were able to exchange contracts just six weeks after making an offer on a new four-bedroom house , thanks to the part exchange scheme provided by Crest Homes . |
| 18 | It was thanks to the man upstairs that Frankie had acquired the enormous army greatcoat with its fancy epaulettes and polished brass buttons . |
| 19 | Thanks to the cooperation of the Austrians in Flanders , the French had been able to extend the embarkation area and the main assault would now be delivered second , not first . |
| 20 | Finally , many thanks to the parents and all the other folk who helped us by being part of the duty rota . |
| 21 | Thanks to the University of London , from 1936-57 it was housed in the Imperial Institute in South Kensington , being finally incorporated into the University from 1944 . |
| 22 | Then we were all clasped in a threefold embrace , Laura calling out her thanks to the sky . |
| 23 | It was also to be assumed the four Orientals themselves would have to be faced , as they had no way of knowing that two of them were already dead , thanks to the actions of Sherman and the Prophet himself . |
| 24 | Thanks to the connections made by William Agnew amongst Glasgow 's high society , the Bazaar was extremely successful and raised more than enough to purchase a prime site on the corner of West Regent Street and West Campbell Street . |
| 25 | Thanks to the EC you can . |
| 26 | Some of Britain 's rarest wild flowers , swept to near-extinction by the intensification of farming since the second world war , are likely to stage a comeback thanks to the EC 's set-aside policy . |
| 27 | Signor Fichera , whose vineyards and orchards were destroyed , left his cottage after hanging out a banner saying : ‘ Thanks to the government ’ , hinting at the anger among residents who say the authorities should have acted sooner to protect them . |
| 28 | of phone boxes now work and that phone call charges have been cut faster in this country than in any other country , thanks to the Government 's privatisation policy ? |
| 29 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that , thanks to the Government 's progressive policies in privatising the electricity industry , that area of south-east Essex deserves a visit because methane produced by all the muck that comes out of London is being dumped at Mucking Flats , converted into electricity and sold to the national grid , thanks to the enterprise of Cory 's , which is in my constituency ? |
| 30 | Will my right hon. Friend totally reject what the hon. Member for Great Grimsby ( Mr. Mitchell ) has just said , bearing in mind that only four days ago my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State was in my constituency , which adjoins Great Grimsby , to announce that Kimberly-Clark from America was to build a factory at Barton-upon-Humber involving 770 new jobs , thanks to the Government 's industrial policy and a large Government grant to that company ? |