Example sentences of "thus [verb] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buyer provides the seller with , and encourages him to return , a standard acknowledgement which acts as an unconditional acceptance of the purchase order , thus bringing the contract into existence on the standard terms on the back of the purchase order . |
| 2 | note the number of turns this takes , so you can repeat the setting once the new radiator is connected , thus maintaining the balance of flow through it . |
| 3 | Darwin 's originality lay in the fact that , as a wealthy amateur , he could study in the field as well as in the dissecting room and could thus synthesize the information from biogeography and morphology . |
| 4 | It is interesting to note that farther to the west , in southern Oldenburg and at the Ems estuary , where Kupferschiefer is underlain by thin Rotliegendes and flat lying Upper Carboniferous , vitrinite reflectance is about the same in the Kupferschiefer and at the top Carboniferous , thus reflecting the predominance of recoalification . |
| 5 | Solar cookers , for instance , instead of becoming the answer to the needs of poor villagers and thus easing the pressure of firewood , could become a tool for the middle classes . |
| 6 | The flow method thus transforms the time-variation of concentration into a distance-variation and enables us to make an essentially static measurement ( Fig. 5.47 ) . |
| 7 | Parents and pressure groups representing parents , were concerned that Social Services Departments were to ready to end parental contact with children in care , and thus pave the way for adoption . |
| 8 | Pruning cuts out damaged and diseased branches , thus averting the spread of decay , while at the same time rechannelling the vital sap back into the productive parts of the plant . |
| 9 | Best-known to the general public perhaps , are experiments where reconstructions of early boats and ships have been used to follow and thus test the feasibility of migration routes which might have been used by ancient people , such as the experiments conducted by Thor Heyerdahl . |
| 10 | However , it is important to list these alternative modes and thus acknowledge the variety of provision in the Authority . |
| 11 | Cells thus provide the key to understanding development because their behaviour brings about embryonic development and is controlled by gene activity . |
| 12 | Recently several independent groups , including our own at Birkbeck College , have been investigating this model in further detail and have shown how it is possible to calculate explicit particle trajectories in various contexts , thus opening the possibility of understanding quantum phenomena in terms of the behaviour of individual particles . |
| 13 | It nevertheless addresses the sufferer as king , thus defining the relationship between meditator and Christ and establishing the twin poles of thought — sovereignty and suffering . |
| 14 | It might possibly have been convoked earlier had not Luther urged that a general Council , to which the pope would be compelled to submit , should decide for or against his Ninety-Five Theses , thus reviving the spectre of conciliarism . |
| 15 | Iago returns to the process , with a series of hints and insinuations , having asked whether Cassio knew of Othello 's love for Desdemona : ( thus insinuating the possibility of harm ) . |
| 16 | The Agricultural Training Board was set up in 1966 to improve the technical performance of workers in the industry and thus to widen the number of job opportunities for them . |
| 17 | Specific antibody production could help to distinguish between intracranial mass lesions caused by T gondii reactivation and those caused by other processes such as lymphoma or progressive multifocal encephalitis , thus limiting the need for brain biopsy . |
| 18 | It will thus follow the path of tradition — and this becomes the vehicle which protects us against deviation . |
| 19 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 20 | The GIS gave rapid and easy access to the data in a number of different ways , it provided analytical tools for the production of statistical tables , and it allowed the output of maps and specific factors , such as the overlay of the road network onto the green belt layer , showing areas of high and low accessibility , thus permitting the evaluation of population growth potential relative to accessibility and planning constraints . |
| 21 | He argued that correctionalism ‘ systematically interferes with the capacity to empathise and thus comprehend the subject of enquiry ’ ( ibid. , p. 15 ) , and consequently increases ‘ the possibility of ‘ losing the phenomenon ’ — reducing it to that which it is not ’ ( ibid. p. 17 ) . |
| 22 | If the deviant reneges again in the punishment phase , this is met with a reimposition of the punishment phase from its beginning , thus postponing the date of reversion to the more profitable collusive phase . |
| 23 | The intersections in the functional domains thus indicate the type of association that should be maintained , whilst the intersection in the geometric domain indicates the region in which it occurs . |
| 24 | In the remaining chapters , it is argued that religion in Ireland basically solidifies the opposing alliances in an exclusive way and precludes a common state form , thus providing the structure of violence which such divisions entail . |
| 25 | Thus it can be concluded that the LTP , and in contrast to Bliss 's group , other labs reported that there was an increase in the number of these receptors in hippocampal neurons following induction of LTP , thus moving the focus of interest about mechanism from the pre-to the postsynaptic side . |
| 26 | The police authority appoints the chief constable , his deputy and assistants , but the short list must be acceptable to the Home Office , who thus control the type of person appointed even if not the specific individual . |
| 27 | Business can dominate political input processes and thus control the process of agenda-setting ( see pp. 152 — 8 ) . |
| 28 | The Stock Exchange thus reduces the cost of capital to companies . |
| 29 | The drive towards economic and political union has the tendency to convert what were previously international transactions into internal transactions , and thus reduces the sphere of influence of Conventional law within the EEC . |
| 30 | During the homeward voyage Wallich collected a variety of marine organisms , thus beginning the study of oceanography which was to dominate the remainder of his life . |