Reasoning
to verify …
to establish …
to facilitate …
to capture …
to measure accurately …
the reason for this is …
Because of this, …
it should be stressed that …
we might expect that …
it is convenient to …
it is helpful to consider …
It is helpful here to …
In practice, …
the application of … to …
Particular attention will be paid to …
to examine more closely
… will be or was investigated further by …
… will be examined in greater detail
Based on …, we decided to …
This has been shown to …
In doing so, …
it will be useful to examine …
… deserves special attention
we opted to …
from this perspective
This approach is based on …
… is frequently used to …
The experiment was designed to …
Previous measurements based on … have shown that …
The traditional approach has been to …
This innovation allows us to …
The most straightforward way of … is …
This route would enable us to …
This is the course or method adopted here.
The advantage of this approach is that …
This approach has the advantage of or that …
This approach has a number of advantages: firstly, …
… gives a better basis for …
it combines … with or and …
This format allows us to see more clearly how …
In this way, we are or were able to target …
This enables one to create …
… allows or enables the transfer of … from … to …
such a rigid approach does not allow …
this approach gives greater flexibility
this construction allows us to …
This rather strict regime ensures that …
By monitoring …, we are or were able to …
This allows … to be examined within the same framework.
In this way, we are able to eliminate several of the problems of previous approaches or methods
One difficulty in … is …
A or one significant problem is …
Coordination of … and … is essential or particularly difficult
a compromise
One strategy would be to …
… avoids this difficulty by …
the practical problems involved in …
an alternative way of approaching the problem
Another way of looking at the question of …
If, however, we reformulate the question, we …
It is impossible to discuss, examine etc. … without discussing …
It is impossible to discuss, examine etc. … without reference to …
… methodological issues …
The original or earlier method was abandoned because of problems with …
Conventional methods, techniques etc. are unable to …
… cannot be achieved by conventional methods
Controls
In control experiments, we found that …
under control conditions
under similar conditions
… in a temperature-controlled environment
The experiment was carried out at room temperature.
To control …, we …
To control the effects of …, it is necessary to …
… serves as an important check on …
… in order to avoid …
… to prevent …
… to correct for …
… may be corrected by …
To ensure that …, we …
… can be ensured by …
It is relatively easy to control for or check that …
We went to great lengths to ensure …
this is or can be minimized US and GB or minimised GB by …
It is particularly important to …
It is important to bear in mind …