Example sentences of "[noun] and thus [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular the fact that so many officials had bought their offices and thus made them their personal property ( see p. 126 ) made it very hard to dismiss them , since the government could seldom afford to refund the purchase price . |
| 2 | Charles Greville , into the hands of Paul Sandby ( 1725–1809 ) who , in 1775 , published Twelve Views in Aquatinta and thus began a vogue that reached its artistic peak with such artists as Thomas Malton ( 1748–1804 ) and William Daniell ( 1769–1837 ) , mentioned above . |
| 3 | On Oct. 30 a controversial measure giving blanket immunity to anyone who had committed a politically motivated crime before Oct. 8 , 1990 [ see p. 39037 ] was approved by the President 's Council and thus became law , despite its having been rejected on Oct. 20 by the House of Delegates , the Indian chamber of the tricameral parliament . |
| 4 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 5 | After the Second World War — during which time Fred served as a Special in the Metropolitan Police and later in the Royal Artillery — he put in another 111 League appearances and thus became the only Palace player to make a century of appearances on each side of the war . |
| 6 | In 1982 , again with the aid of the V & A 's Purchase Grant Fund , the University bought the correspondence and thus completed the Tree Collection . |
| 7 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 8 | John Cassevetes got the part and thus ended Nicholson 's brief hope of a major starring role , and provided further incentive to the prevailing thought that he should get out of acting . |
| 9 | He called meetings to solicit their views and thus began his own experiments with what was effectively community architecture . |
| 10 | Duncombe 's poem was reprinted a number of times and thus kept Leapor 's name before the reading public for several decades . |
| 11 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 12 | The facilities for travellers and the ever present interest of the Inca remains made this an easy city to spend time in , but the darker side of Peru 's history had found its way into the present and thus highlighted the problems of fitting a comfortable tourist face on to a Third World country . |
| 13 | After he had travelled through England he started on his foreign travels and thus explored Flanders and Holland , because he knew that there were also great horticulturalists there and with the science and management of ornamental and kitchen gardens which there reached a high pitch of excellence . |
| 14 | They share John 's view that slow population growth from the mid seventeenth to the mid eighteenth century sustained high per capita incomes among the labouring population and thus boosted the output of commodities other than necessities . |
| 15 | The ILEA covered the area of the former LCC and thus ensured a continuity going back to the establishment of the London School Board in 1870 ( Maclure 1988 : 110 — 11 ) . |
| 16 | According to Heseltine , ‘ virtually every colleague who attended the enlarged meeting and thus came fresh to the arguments supported me , despite the fact that Sir John Cuckney had been invited to put his views to the meeting ’ . |
| 17 | In the plaintiffs ' opinion this seriously affected their privacy and thus breached the covenant of " non-derogation from grant " , since the ground-floor had been let as a dwelling house . |
| 18 | Although warned by referee John Street of the consequences of a further ‘ miss ’ after two failures , Davis still could not hit either of the two balls and thus became the most notable victim of the controversial rule . |
| 19 | Does this mean that in the B. & Q. judgment the court abandoned the criterion of proportionality and thus went back on its earlier case law ? |
| 20 | Nominated by his dying brother as Lord High Protector of the realm during the boy king 's minority , he had just returned from Scotland where , at the head of a powerful army , he had re-taken Berwick in his brother 's name and thus nullified the Scottish King 's threat of a full-scale invasion . |
| 21 | There was the case of an Essex player who smeared Vaseline from his eyebrows on to the ball and thus altered its flight . |
| 22 | The Greeks had perfected the lintel method of spanning an opening ; the Romans adapted the arch from Etruscan designs and from their own development and thus led the way to later variations on this theme . |
| 23 | These , too , had their imitators and thus established the police procedural in Britain . |
| 24 | The Greek god of love who inspired physical attraction between the sexes and thus ensured the continuity of life . |
| 25 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 26 | The main benefit to the United States of the Smithsonian Agreement lay in the new exchange rates which embodied a 9 per cent devaluation of the dollar in relation to other currencies compared with the pre-August rates and thus increased US competitiveness . |
| 27 | In both schools the conversion of depressed and under-utilised premises into business-like , welcoming and tasteful accommodation not only gave visible recognition to the library but must also have increased the attraction of the library and thus encouraged the utilisation of the materials purchased under the project . |
| 28 | World prices for Arabian light grade had dropped by around $4.50 per barrel since October 1991 , to about $18.50 , at a time when the onset of winter in the northern hemisphere would normally have increased demand and thus shored up the price . |
| 29 | labour appeared to have a separate existence from the life of the labourer and thus appeared as an alien object . |
| 30 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |