Example sentences of "[adj] and thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |
| 2 | But such broad definitions render the terms vacuous and thus deprive them of analytical value . |
| 3 | This is a condition in which managements become excessively concerned with short-term profits with a view to keeping share price high and thus avoiding the attention of bidders . |
| 4 | But , in fact , latent inhibition is routinely obtained with stimuli that are diffuse and non-localized and thus seem certain to impinge on the subject 's sense organs even in the absence of an overt OR . |
| 5 | The Earth is included because though only a few tens of impact craters are known , all of them are less than 500 Ma old and thus constitute recent cratering . |
| 6 | The pig 's range is usually given as Java , Madura and Bawean , but you can subtract Madura now , since that 's been deforested and thus depigged ( de-everythinged , in fact ) . |
| 7 | The toilets and urinals were to the left of this section — the urinals being roofless and thus open to the elements . |
| 8 | Whilst each of these may be attractive , they do raise a vexing question : would their acceptance represent an indefensible system of dual justice , one providing fewer rights to the accused and thus increasing the chances of conviction ? |
| 9 | Such support operations would involve the Bank of England buying gilt-edged and thus tending to expand the liquidity and lending potential of the banking system . |
| 10 | Reduce the average branching factor by keeping the number of arcs spanning n(1,2) , n(2,3) , and n(3,4) low and thus limit the combinatorial explosion of paths . |
| 11 | It has not proved straightforward to obtain the services of appropriate staff , and although work has now commenced in each of the areas mentioned , it is difficult to predict when development will be complete and thus give a firm date as to when information will be available to allow colleges to plan for the introduction of new courses in session 1989–90 . |
| 12 | In section 4.3 you will see that there is some evidence that Venus is not as geologically active as the Earth , which could indicate a cool interior right down to any iron core , which could largely be solid and thus explain the small dipole moment . |
| 13 | But whether Idealism helped Liberalism and the ‘ New ’ Liberals to speak and act on the basis of a more dynamic and conceptually successful social theory , or whether , to quote Michael Freeden , ‘ Rather than Idealism giving birth to a new version of liberalism , it was liberalism that was able to assimilate certain aspects of Idealism to its mainstream and thus bestow new meaning upon Idealist tenets ’ , is not a problem of immediate relevance here . |
| 14 | • Most professional male swimmers shave off their body hair to make them more streamlined and thus swim faster . |
| 15 | Borrowers are increasingly sophisticated and thus have less need of information that the intermediary can offer , particularly as lead manager performance can be monitored in the grey market , i.e. information asymmetries are becoming less important . |
| 16 | DeFleur , in 1970 , saw a further element in the chain — feedback — which allows the transmitter to adapt his message in order to make it more effective and thus increase the chance of it reaching its destination clearly . |
| 17 | I WRITE with reference to the two letters from concerned residents of Chelwood Avenue , Childwall , who complain about their street lights being too bright , too effective and thus keeping them awake at night . |
| 18 | This forces the upper transistor to source current and thus biases it into class-A . |
| 19 | But what really bugs our Sharon is that they dare to show any football at all and thus interrupt the daily stream of soap sludge . |
| 20 | Indeed , the late Hans Keller declared in The Mozart Companion ( London : 1956 ) that ‘ on the whole , Mozart 's early quartets are quite abominable … why play them at all and thus insult Mozart 's genius ? ’ |
| 21 | But more important , she realized that the gesture was available to all and thus did not really belong to her : when she waved her arm , she was actually committing theft or forgery . |
| 22 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 23 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 24 | The Clacton side of Jim Dove , Gary Ridgeon , Daniel Burrell and Emma Cartwright beat Braintree B 6–3 and thus take the Division Three title . |
| 25 | Actual local authority completions in North Tyneside between 1974 and 1986 totalled 5473 , of which all but 639 were completed before 1981 and thus reflect pre-1979 capital programmes . |
| 26 | It is hoped that these state-ments of principle will over time influence national courts by persuading them to look beyond their own , or indeed any one , legal system , particularly where the dispute is international and thus does not readily respond to national laws designed primarily for domestic transactions . |
| 27 | As in a laminar flow ( Section 11.7 ) , the viscous term can be divided into two parts : one is essentially negative and thus represents viscous dissipation ; the other ( usually small ) integrates to zero and so is another energy transfer process . |
| 28 | Production of the maximum possible yield might , for example , require too high a consumption of an expensive starting material or the process might take too long and thus prove uneconomic . |
| 29 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 30 | The Podensac , who held a number of strong-points on the Garonne , had married into the bourgeois family of Caillau at Bordeaux in 1293 and thus brought much of their fortune into the Albret inheritance . |