Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] thus [art] " in BNC.

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1 The change of context can influence only an excitatory association and thus the result of Fig. 4.6 , a loss of the CR , can be expected .
2 The ability of the added stimulus to disrupt normal perception of the excitatory CS should undergo habituation and thus the ‘ inhibitory ’ power of the pre-exposed stimulus might be less than that of a novel one .
3 As Hannah Arendt has shown , in times of crisis the existence of a formless mass can become the basis for a totalitarian dictatorship ; in times of prosperity it can lead to an all-encompassing smugness and self-satisfaction and to the existence of a regime which knows no criticism , no control and , above all , no real opposition and thus no arguments which contain alternatives .
4 The dna determines the activities of the cell and thus the organism 's shape , form and function .
5 The hotel business has a high staff turnover and thus a need for constant training .
6 The new competition created by all these external and internal forces has increased the barriers to entry and thus the degree of global concentration in many industries .
7 It can be constantly modified according to its effect and thus the social function dominates the logical .
8 Even in our championship winning year we failed to beat the ‘ elite ’ sides in the league and although Wilko has made a few changes to the squad we still have basically the side and thus the same problems that have cost us dearly in the most important games .
9 When a country surrenders its right to issue its own coinage , and does so irrevocably , it loses its sovereignty and thus the basis of its existence as a separate nation state .
10 Medvedev was a former rector of the Central Committee 's Academy of Social Sciences , and in September 1988 he became head of the newly-established ideological commission of the Central Committee and thus the leadership 's most prominent theoretician .
11 It is more likely that in many situations there is a conflict of interest between capital and labour over this issue and thus a need to negotiate the outcome .
12 Even so , where money changes hands , it is part of an exchange and thus an expression of the social relationship which exists between the two individuals concerned .
13 The decision was attacked the following day by Drazen Budisa , chairman of the opposition Croatian Social Liberal Party ( HSLS ) , who complained that " several thousands of inhabitants of Vukovar imprisoned in Serbian camps " and " tens of thousands of Croats from Central Bosnia about whom we have no information " would be unable to obtain their Croatian nationality and thus the right to vote .
14 The solicitors have warned Mr Clark of the consequences if he presses ahead : ‘ Our clients have the option to irritate the feu on the basis of breach of conditions thereof , which would revoke the feudal grant and thus the property would revert to the church . ’
15 This would amount to a revocable settlement and thus the income will be taxed upon the settlor ( even if it is not actually paid to him or his spouse or children ) under the provisions of TA 1988 , ss663 and 664 .
16 The Court of Appeal held that the expression " transfer of assets " in TA 1988 , s670 covered such a case and thus the income derived from the assets so transferred was taxed upon the settlor .
17 In the universe of doxa of primitive societies there is ‘ full correspondence of ( such ) mental structures ’ to doxa and thus a relatively undifferentiated habitus .
18 Substitution of the values for the mass and volume of the gas together with those for temperature , pressure and the molar gas constant into equation ( 6 ) enables the molar mass and thus the relative molecular mass to be calculated .
19 Once again equation ( 6 ) is used to calculate the molar mass and thus the relative molecular mass .
20 Equation ( 6 ) is then used to obtain the molar mass and thus the relative molecular mass .
21 Calculate the molar mass and thus the relative molecular mass of the solute given that the ebullioscopic constant of propanone is 1.71 K mol kg .
22 But this implies that the world is an entity other than God and God has given it freedom and thus the possibility of ‘ going wrong ’ , of producing evil , sin , pain and suffering , whatever explanation we may try to give of how such things have come about — at least they are only too obvious in the world we know .
23 Nowadays , he is sad that few teachers have the training , the freedom and thus the confidence in their own creative skills , to set such positive activities in motion .
24 No other creature possesses this akashic integration at a mind level and thus no other creature has anything barely resembling our human kind of language structure .
25 With no shell and thus no firm base on which to attach a muscle and nothing rigid to serve as a lever , these larvae are indifferent movers .
26 The British must refine a new history curriculum to show the national genius and thus the inferiority of all others , and do so in the face of the sleepy yawns of the poor pupils .
27 It became clear that if the Community 's work was to continue , they would need money and thus the Sisters went out begging in other villages , and visiting the gentry in their mansions scattered about that part of the Moor .
28 If , for example , a hotelier contracts for a window cleaner to clean all the outside windows of the hotel and , while undertaking this job , the person contracted falls and is injured , although the hotelier owes the window cleaner a duty of care under s. 2(1) OLA 1957 , the extent of this duty is modified by the fact that window cleaners will themselves guard against the ordinary risks of carrying out the job and thus the hotelier may not be liable for their injuries .
29 The merger with the CBSI should slow down the fall in membership and thus the subscription base , though the eventual impact on reserves is hard to forecast .
30 What may happen is that the returning reflected stress waves repeatedly meet the outgoing ones at some critical or unlucky point and thus the stress may pile up at this point until fracture occurs .
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