Example sentences of "[be] thus [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the extent that they are thus led to perform well this is obviously desirable ; the problem is that , in attempting to avoid noticeable mistakes , they ignore the costs that must be borne by the public . |
| 2 | Householders are thus tempted to purchase this less well-known brand more upon the basis of price than comparative performance . |
| 3 | Once the presence of a carcass has been directly or indirectly detected , they glide down to it rapidly , and large numbers of vultures are thus enabled to assemble in a short time . |
| 4 | Miniature roses , sometimes not more than 6 inches ( 15cm ) high when full grown , are often denigrated and derided as toys — which is most unfair because a great many people with the most limited facilities who would otherwise miss out are thus enabled to experience the satisfaction of rose growing . |
| 5 | We are thus enabled to distinguish more easily the would-be functionalist 's explicans ( interactional structure ) from the explicandum ( language ) . |
| 6 | Systems are thus configured to provide various tools , which range from two-dimensional drafting programs , for the production of engineering drawings to set standards , through to full solid and surface modelling , in order that complex objects can be machined . |
| 7 | The arch-Kinnockites in the Tribune Group have shifted entirely into John Smith 's camp and are thus considered to have come out in their true colours as right-wingers . |
| 8 | Since technologies are ‘ neutral ’ , then no aspersions are being cast on individual members of cultures which happen to lack a particular technology and are thus taken to lack certain intellectual advantages . |
| 9 | They were constructed for human interpretation and they are thus designed to provide verbal explanations and translations of words , rather than the morphological , syntactic and semantic data required by NLP lexicons . |
| 10 | They are thus compelled to release their eggs while they are still high on the rock and a brown rain of spawn falls sporadically from as high as twenty feet . |
| 11 | Dischargers are thus permitted to pollute by the water authorities — but only ( in theory ) up to those levels set out in the discharger 's consent document . |
| 12 | They are thus forced to extend the area of cultivation on to land hitherto used by pastoralists for seasonal grazing . |
| 13 | We are thus forced to identify unc with all processes that might diverge ( before doing anything else ) . |
| 14 | They were thus inspired to assume flower names , and attracted a great deal of attention and interest — precisely , in fact , what they had previously been denied . |
| 15 | In truth , as testimonies from both sides bear witness , the combatants felt that the outcome of the conflict was irreversibly decided in favour of the Nationalists in the winter of 1937 – 38 , when Franco 's forces gained control of the town of Teruel , in southern Aragón , and were thus poised to launch an offensive on Catalonia and Valencia . |
| 16 | The more sophisticated Greeks were thus made to regard man in pre-Trojan times as much the same as his distant offspring , and this tended to demythologize the Greek legends , thereby placing the past in quite a new perspective . |
| 17 | Another mechanism by which the amount of repressor can be kept low in the nucleus involves the possibility that the repressor be confined in the cytoplasm ; we were thus prompted to test the nucleo-cytoplasmic ripartition of the X binding activity in Raji and RJ2.2.5 . |
| 18 | They were thus encouraged to stay long when they might not otherwise have done so . |
| 19 | Needing this reassurance , they were thus encouraged to innovate , to work hard , and to strive to succeed . |
| 20 | This age-related assessment is thus intended to complement the usual assessment procedures of a school . |
| 21 | The functionality of the gear-lever is thus seen to exist as a set of attributes of the intersection of the functional domains ( see Figure 2.24 ) , which are mapped and preserved within the geometric domain . |
| 22 | Such an approach is thus seen to provide a linear interpretation of a true surface model . |
| 23 | The Behaviourist 's stimulus response , S→R , model of human behaviour is thus extended to include a mediating variable : stimulus → appraisal → response . |
| 24 | Exchange rate uncertainty is thus bound to reduce investment . |
| 25 | The art critic is thus bound to consider with care what standards of comparison should be used . |
| 26 | The scheming phase is thus employed to refine the elements being detailed ; studies on cost effectiveness can be conducted and alternative schemes evaluated . |
| 27 | The caesium chloride lattice is thus said to have 8:8 coordination . |
| 28 | The man who accepts authority is thus said to surrender his private or individual judgment because he does not insist that reasons be given that he can grasp and that satisfy him , as a condition of his obedience . |
| 29 | This cam is in turn pinned to the upper arm of the bell crank C. The resulting rotation of the crank about its fixed pivot causes the horizontal portion to rise and fall , lifting link member D and with it the vertically constrained rod member E. The needle carried in a collet at the lower end is thus made to oscillate vertically . |
| 30 | With a dominance and bodily expression also suggested in illus.1 , Rey is thus known to have exercised , with lasting success , many musical functions of what we call a ‘ conductor ’ |