"thereby preparing" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to show cause and effect, indicating that an action or thing is being done in order to prepare for something else. Example: She spent hours studying for the test, thereby preparing herself for success.
Golitsyn also directed the negotiations with China and concluded the Treaty of Nerchinsk (ratified 1689), which set the Russo-Chinese border along the Amur River, thereby preparing the way for Russia's subsequent expansion to the Pacific Ocean.
In a few instances enzymes produced by biotic agents have been identified that are capable of breaking down the integrity of the supporting tissues of the body, thereby preparing a pathway for the spread of the organism.
Lastly, the fourth feature was the inclusion of abstraction bridge word problems that facilitated a generalized application of proportional reasoning to other domains, thereby preparing students to use this reasoning for analogous problems and/or in daily life.
The science curriculum in boys' secondary schools began with the teaching of scientific knowledge in relation to students' common-sense pertaining to their daily lives and environment through ippan rika; following this, they studied the separate sciences, thereby preparing them to apply scientific concepts and identify relationships between science and human life through ōyō rika.
Such a sense judgement, through comparative awareness, detaches the object from a given place and time, thereby preparing the way within the realm of sense cognition for intellectual cognition.[29] When we arrive at the threshold of intellectual cognition, we are entering the next step along the Bonaventurian journey.
The antagonist Ang-2 is known to downregulate Tie2 signaling, thereby preparing vascular endothelial cells for enhanced responsiveness to factors that cause destabilization of the endothelial barrier [12].
Accounting professors have explained to me that rules limiting the ability of accounting firms to provide internal auditing services to a client (and thereby prepare the same books that they later purport to audit independently) are pointless, because accountants would never risk their reputation by acting improperly.
This priming leads to an upregulation of receptors of the innate immune system, signalling molecules and transcription factors and thereby prepares the cells for a possible subsequent infection (Stewart et al., 1971; Osterlund et al., 2005; Phipps-Yonas et al., 2008; Kuri et al., 2009).
Indeed, government sources began to steer away late last year from the idea that foreign terrorists mailed the letters, thereby perhaps preparing us for a revelation.
We also worked with a leading university in Palestine to fine-tune its engineering curricula and include training on this new technology, thereby better preparing future generations of graduates.
We further hypothesized that such alterations in behavior, and the associated modifications in brain gene expression profiles, would be transmitted to the offspring, thereby suggestively prepare the offspring for the parental environment.
