Example sentences of "thanks to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 visible form thanks to the alchemy of photography . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Jaq gave thanks to the Master of Mankind for their arrival . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Peter Rabbit turns 100 this year , but certainly does n't look his age , thanks to the commissioning of new animation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thanks to the work of the revisionists , no future history of the English Reformation will end in 1559 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was thanks to the man upstairs that Frankie had acquired the enormous army greatcoat with its fancy epaulettes and polished brass buttons . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Then we were all clasped in a threefold embrace , Laura calling out her thanks to the sky . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | How would it be possible to take the two applications together when , thanks to the Government 's incompetence , there is not yet a scheme to run trains to King 's Cross ? |
| 25 | Charles and John Higgs clicked , and it was largely thanks to the relationship struck up with him , and the sheer personality of the man , that Charles became wholly and genuinely enthused by every aspect of the Duchy . |
| 26 | Richard Scott went for nought , caught out and caught behind , thanks to the pace of Bishop . |
| 27 | Bye Bye Baby gets away with its particular minefield thanks to the sleight of illustrator Janet Ahlberg 's hand . |
| 28 | Neither the man nor his union could have pursued the case alone , but thanks to the insurance he eventually collected £22,500 compensation . |
| 29 | Well done you and a very , very special thanks to the Princess Royal , without whose leadership it would not have been possibly at all . |
| 30 | For the same reason , there was no obstruction of the highway — the miners were getting from home to colliery far more quickly than normal , thanks to the chauffeur and the VIP escort . |