adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
reducing
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This involves selling more government securities and thereby reducing banks' reserves when their customers pay for them from their bank accounts.
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Food product quality is more easily maintained thereby reducing spoilage losses and production time through unscheduled cleaning.
■ VERB
allow
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It exposes the reproductive parts of the flowers, thereby allowing pollinating insects to get at them.
avoid
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Fortunately band-pass and band-stop filters can be constructed from just capacitors and resistors, thereby avoiding the inductive problem.
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Neither should quotations be used to express an opinion and thereby avoid expressing your own opinion or using your own words.
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They thereby avoid commitment to any current fad that comes up on the whirligig of fashion.
become
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An incidental advantage of splitting pupillage is that you thereby become known in two places instead of one.
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It was here that they were forced to eat beef thereby becoming instantly de-Hinduized.
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Understanding the actual forms and extents of state intervention thereby becomes a largely empirical matter.
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Refusal in payment, forgery or any other misuse thereby became treason or sacrilege and attracted savage penalties.
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The combinations of words that form compounds thereby become number sequences which are stored in a compound tree.
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It thereby becomes inviolate until an equally vast majority decides otherwise.
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The cells in the club can specialize, each thereby becoming more efficient at performing its particular task.
bring
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For this purpose the Defence Operational Analysis Establishment was formed, thereby bringing together specialist staff from the three service departments.
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Consumer taste is thereby brought at least partly under its control.
cause
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The allegation was that the defendants had supplied contaminated water to the plaintiffs thereby causing them personal injury.
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It can also happen that one player can fuel the confidence of a teammate, thereby causing a prophecy to be fulfilled.
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However, it would certainly confuse the fox, thereby causing it to run erratically as described.
create
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They can thereby create patient expectation of the level of demand that will be serviced.
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The board prohibited the petition because it was controversial and would cause teachers to take opposing political positions, thereby creating discord.
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That union effaces at least a part of the gulf between mine and thine and thereby creates strength with happiness.
enable
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Borehole break-outs have been found to give an indication of stress anisotropy thereby enabling the fracture orientation to be predicted.
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Her main motive was simple: to retrieve the ring and thereby enable Rick to make peace with his family.
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I hope that this book provides others with insights, thereby enabling a scientific consensus to emerge.
ensure
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It is essential that the quality of the carpet is identified, thereby ensuring that we replace like with like.
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The other part of my proposal will probably prove annoying to radicals, thereby ensuring a proper balance.
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Garrick joined, and Adam Smith, thereby ensuring that Johnson did not always have the discourse his own way.
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Several cultigens are similarly flexible, e.g. coconut, in that pollination is thereby ensured in both open and closed habitats.
gain
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The government, however, did not thereby gain the allegiance of the higher social groups to the Republic.
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The learner will thereby gain a much greater understanding of the patient.
give
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Z is thereby given the option.
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In 1762 commoners were forbidden to purchase serfs, thereby giving noble industrialists a temporary advantage since hired labour was still scarce.
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The safer option is to start about fifteen percent further down the line, thereby giving yourself a little more room.
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Theodore thereby gave a wholly new dimension to the authority of the archbishop of Canterbury within the Anglo-Saxon Church.
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Moire pattern the result of superimposing half-tone screens at the wrong angle thereby giving a chequered effect on the printed half-tone.
help
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For example, one can fulfill the role of being a food server, and thereby help to alleviate hunger.
improve
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They can also be used with other forms of security, thereby improving the overall protection of a property.
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These fractures also provide the Stinkdolomit with an enhanced permeability thereby improving the potential productivity of the rocks.
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This was a rare opportunity to study the attenuation of strong seismic waves and thereby improve seismic hazard assessment.
increase
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Like pectin, psyllium forms a gel which is not digested or absorbed, thereby increasing the viscosity of the meal.
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Females tend to remain in their natal units, which thereby increase gradually in size.
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Its tip can stay alive and grow for many days, thereby increasing its chances of meeting a host.
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Similarly, branches may be short-staffed thereby increasing loading and unloading times.
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Occupiers also raise the internal temperature, thereby increasing the stack effect.
keep
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My Department is providing £200,000 this financial year to motor projects dealing with young offenders, thereby keeping them out of custody.
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Copies of optometry feedback are sent to the patient's general practitioner, who is thereby kept informed of eye assessments.
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Bourgeois ideology takes over the legitimizing functions of traditional society and thereby keeps power relations inaccessible to analysis and public consciousness.
lose
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The perverted originality of Iago's ruse, now linked to a cause, thereby loses its lurid gleam.
make
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It is possible to re-use the tape, thereby making updating less expensive.
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Once again it did not honour its commitments, he says, thereby making a mockery of the Good Friday agreement.
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He thereby makes what happens, the smell, into what can properly be called a matter of real chance.
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Conventionality in a system of communication offers stability, and thereby makes communication feasible from one occasion to the next.
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Try to visualise the meaning of historical writing and thereby make the past come to life.
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As technology improves, thereby making it possible to set a lower emission standard, new sources face increasingly more strict controls.
prevent
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It acts by inhibiting bone resorption of calcium thereby preventing significant variations in plasma calcium concentrations.
produce
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Hyperkalemia moves the resting potential closer to the normal threshold potential, thereby producing a more excitable state.
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They mutate, and thereby produce at least some better replicating sequences.
provide
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The dog would perforce yelp in reaction, and thereby provide the captain a time cue.
reduce
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In a mass, however, the birds sometimes defend the nowers and thereby reduce cross-pollination.
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In these situations, acetazolamide may be needed to decrease proximal bicarbonate and sodium reabsorption, thereby reducing the serum bicarbonate level.
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Firms would find their inventories involuntarily building up and so would cut back production thereby reducing national income.
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Efficient management of creativity then succeeds in channeling these creative outputs into organizational goals, thereby reducing the wastage of resources.
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As the parse progresses down the input the incorrect hypotheses should fail; thereby reducing the search space to be explored.
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Parents and teachers note that work-inhibited children often play with younger children, thereby reducing the risk of defeat or rejection.
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The clear aim of the vendor is to disclose as much as possible thereby reducing the potential for claims under the warranties.
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Trace metal ions in the solution are thereby reduced and plated on to the anodic electrode.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He redesigned the process, thereby saving the company thousands of dollars.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Efficient management of creativity then succeeds in channeling these creative outputs into organizational goals, thereby reducing the wastage of resources.
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It is essential that the quality of the carpet is identified, thereby ensuring that we replace like with like.
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The home thereby acquires a special significance; an institution protected by the males, if necessary by aggressive actions towards others.
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The whole emphasis is placed on the terms being negated, thereby reflecting a profound bias towards aggression as the norm.
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They express their anger by destroying their own lives and thereby hurting others, while seeming to be wide-eyed and innocent.