Example sentences of "thus [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 As a courtier , he saw all issues in the light cast by the shifting world of court favour : thus Godoy 's support of the French alliance was consistently conditioned by his desire to use it against his enemies at court or his hopes of a safe retreat from these enemies in a Portuguese principality bestowed on him by France .
2 Thus Mendel 's paper on the inherited characteristics of peas , published in an obscure journal in what is now part of Czechoslovakia , was uncited for many years , but the ideas contained within it are now an integral part of the genetics paradigm .
3 Thus Moore 's position on the rightness and wrongness of actions is a form of rigoristic utilitarianism in which effects in terms of intrinsic good and bad replace effects in terms of pleasure and pain .
4 Thus Garland 's version of the prison suggests the mixture of Beccarian classicism ( proportionality for deterrent purposes ) and retributive justice ( proportionality according to desert ) that , as we have seen , was the hallmark of neoclassicism .
5 Thus Evans-Pritchard 's work on the magic and religion of the Azande , and on the political systems of the Nuer , and Malinowski 's investigations among the Trobriand islanders established a new style and standard for this kind of academic scholarship .
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