Example sentences of "[verb] thus [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has thus indirectly promoted fierce competition in international banking . |
| 2 | The Royal Family has thus judiciously assented to this and so has participated in the creation of its own image ; in the process , it has ensured that the monarchy , as an institution and as a symbol , retains a cultural past , present , and ( crucially ) future . |
| 3 | The archive has thus always seen itself in terms of historical rather than current social science research . |
| 4 | The Bank has thus always operated as ‘ lender of last resort ’ guaranteeing to supply whatever quantity of funds was necessary . |
| 5 | It may be unfortunate in the unity talks between the two opposing factions that Ebrahim Patel has thus far chosen to make what many would consider to be totally unrealistic demands for his 93-year-old SA Rugby Union . |
| 6 | The new commitment has been made conditional on other countries taking similar action , which was interpreted by analysts as a reference to the United States , which has thus far refused to agree to reduction targets . |
| 7 | In a related development , the EC environment commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , strongly criticized the latest draft of the Convention on Climate Change as a " sellout " to accommodate the interests of the US government ( which has thus far refused to commit itself to specific emission reductions ) . |
| 8 | Such a strategy would undermine EC initiatives for sweeping global reductions in CO2 emissions , but would be likely to appeal to the US Administration , which has thus far failed to set any formal targets for reducing carbon output . |
| 9 | Suffice to have the benefits of their research , which has thus far produced the ultimate in extreme strength for smallest diameter . |
| 10 | The company has reportedly had more success with another product , KLEA-134a , which does not contain chlorine , does not attack the ozone layer and has thus far passed all toxicity tests . |
| 11 | Tracks records thus far include : . |
| 12 | Of all the treatments for obesity , none could be more physiological or less psychological than the operation known as jejeunoileostomy or ileal bypass , in which most of the small intestine is short circuited thus greatly reducing the amount of intestine available for absorbing food . |
| 13 | Having thus briefly examined the background against which the enormous post-war growth in higher education has taken place , we will now examine in detail those developments which have occurred in the three years that have elapsed since the first edition of this book appeared in 1979 . |
| 14 | Having thus effectively stopped the Plans dead in their tracks , he then proceeded , in the name of the President , to dry up the outward flow of all planning information from Detroit , so that , from that moment on , only he and members of the world planning group would be aware of what was going on , worldwide , at the planning stage . |
| 15 | Come 's stint on the toilet trail may be short-lived if the critical hoo-hah they 've elicited thus far translates into sales , but actually this is a band better suited than most to the world 's more fetid punk rock bunkers . |
| 16 | Films with high or low accident estimates thus additionally included instances of passing a vehicle on a motorway and driving ahead along a curving road . |
| 17 | He hoped thus both to strengthen his hand in the cabinet , several of whose members were by no means convinced supporters of his policies , and to counteract the influence at court of the hostile Austrian and Russian ambassadors , who could usually count on the sympathy of George IV . |
| 18 | God had thus clearly transferred the realm to his brothers , whom the bishops now invited to take it up . |
| 19 | The discipline had thus successfully established and maintained the continuity of the English genius as an at once moral , human ( i.e. engendered ) , and poetic force ; and it had developed procedures for regulating the admissibility of particular fictional works to this field of predominantly male-to-male discourse . |
| 20 | In an interview with Pravda on Nov. 5 , 1989 , the Soviet Armed Forces Chief of Staff , Col.- Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev , said that of the unilateral cuts in conventional forces announced by the Soviet President , Mikhail Gorbachev , in December 1988 ( see pp. 36412 ; 36440 ) , the Soviet Union had thus far withdrawn 50,320 personnel , 3,118 tanks and 351 aircraft from Eastern Europe and Mongolia ( see p. 36657 ) and from forward Soviet deployments . |
| 21 | The FAO meeting also heard that 63 tropical forest countries had thus far accepted the broad outline of the 1985 Tropical Forest Action Plan ( TFAP — see p. 36249 ) and that 20 of these had prepared co-ordinated forestry development plans . |
| 22 | On March 10 Roman attributed the NSF losses to the economic difficulties in the cities , which had thus far borne the brunt of economic restructuring , and to the divisions within the party . |
| 23 | But although the rebels had thus far outmanoeuvred the king , they found themselves unable to translate their military success into long-term political supremacy . |
| 24 | But although the rebels had thus far outmanoeuvred the king , they found themselves unable to translate their military success into long-term political supremacy . |
| 25 | On Aug. 16 Pérez de Cuéllar said that 40 countries had thus far notified him of sanctions measures , as they were required to do by Aug. 24 , and on Aug. 28 the committee on compliance heard that well over half of all UN member countries were committed to the embargo . |
| 26 | The record seemed to openly encourage the backlash which , amazingly , The Smiths had thus far avoided . |
| 27 | The statementing officer had reported that no one had thus far requested the use of an interpreter . |
| 28 | Anxieties about the START treaty and Russia 's financial capacity to meet its provisions , and also those of a more radical accord concluded with the USA in June [ see pp. 38985-86 ] , were compounded after the Russian Deputy Defence Minister Boris Gomov acknowledged that the government had thus far found only part of the funds needed to implement the 30 per cent cut in nuclear arsenals required under START . |
| 29 | He had thus unwittingly stumbled on salicylic acid , the active ingredient in aspirin . |
| 30 | Another rumour countered that she had always been unpleasant and had thus never had a love-affair , unhappy or otherwise . |