Example sentences of "[noun sg] thus [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry thus managed to maintain its freedom on this central aspect of commercial policy making , but its competence in living up to this challenge left much to be desired . |
| 2 | A free , contractual basis for labour thus pointed to progress and prosperity . |
| 3 | Spencer 's emphasis on the struggle against the environment as the driving force of progress thus helped to create the popular image of ‘ Darwinism ’ . |
| 4 | The result , it now appears , was that local administrators , with important defensive budgets to collect and administer , took advantage of the experience thus gained to develop their own powers in particular when , over a period of some decades , taxes originally levied for short periods came to be collected for longer and longer periods , until they became all but permanently established as part of the regular income of a town or city . |
| 5 | Management thus decided to review their attitudes and behaviours in relation to assembly teams . |
| 6 | The Act thus attempted to control the admissibility of such evidence in the courtroom for reasons not only for its biasing effects upon a jury , but also for subsequent press coverage , which is often based on courtroom interaction . |
| 7 | The need to channel economic and social resources to the elderly population thus helped to present its image as a ‘ burden ’ on the community . |
| 8 | But to many of his contemporaries , adaptation was not the central problem , and natural selection thus failed to answer the questions that were uppermost in their minds . |
| 9 | The Swann Report thus failed to break with the cultural and ethnic essentialism which had hegemonized debate in this area and which , as we shall see , continues to mark both the ‘ multiculturalist ’ and ‘ antiracist ’ discourses and programmes of educational reform . |
| 10 | However , the SPD ( which was to decide in mid-November on whether to support amendment of the Basic Law as proposed in August 1992 — see p. 39066 ) boycotted the vote and the motion thus failed to win the required two-thirds majority of members . |
| 11 | Unemployment thus helped to shape the politics of the age , and some political changes were clearly the result of the problems it raised , although long-term social changes were clearly evident in permitting the Labour Party to replace the Liberal Party as the progressive party of British politics . |
| 12 | Our patient thus failed to show evidence of portal hypertension . |
| 13 | The process of commercialization and industrialization in the newspaper industry which began in the 19th century thus continued to have an important effect on newspapers in this century as newspaper costs escalated , as new methods were developed to tap new audiences , to reach new readers , and to increase sales . |
| 14 | National and party interest thus combined to make Sonar Law promote a coalition , but it was the national interest that was cited as the reason for joining Asquith . |