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 …