Example sentences of "[verb] thus [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the bench Bateman had said : ‘ I here beg leave , not merely in my own name but in the name of the whole bench , to require from Mr Ashton the name of the individual on whose statements he has thus presumed to impugn our magisterial conduct . ’ |
| 2 | The Security Treaty , with its underlying motive of making Japan a strong ally in the Pacific area , has thus served to reinforce the close ties with the US that were forged during the Occupation period . |
| 3 | Stylistics has thus begun to converge with aspects of Marxist criticism , especially with the language-centred Marxist models of literature discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 4 | The formal design process has thus evolved to provide a more stable route to the development of ideas . |
| 5 | The government has thus attempted to restrict local authority discretion by reducing the level of income received from the central government via cuts in the RSG and through rate capping . |
| 6 | The working population has thus continued to make contributions for which they gain no benefit . |
| 7 | ‘ How 's Angharad ? ’ asked Betty , who had , last night , discussed at length with Elizabeth the problems and frustrations of bringing up a defective child and felt thus freed to go on talking about it . |
| 8 | The Book issued in 1558 had given fairly realistic values and had thus helped to increase the revenue ; thence forward the values remained almost unchanged until the reign of James I. Nominal duties of 5 per cent had gradually been eroded to something less than 3 per cent . |
| 9 | Adopting this pragmatic approach , I have thus sought to justify the main general conclusion to which my whole argument has been directed : that the way to heal the rift between holism and individualism is to recognise that concessive holism offers a superior approach to the business of social explanation . |
| 10 | We have thus tried to fit to the NMR data by imposing these ε values ( on one junction at a time ) while also constraining the sugar puckers to agree with the COSY data . |