Example sentences of "[adv] and thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , writing a criterion such as " can recognize an equilateral and isosceles triangle as a triangle " may encourage exposure of " standard " triangles only and thus limit pupils ' chances of understanding why the obtuse-angled figure is a triangle . |
| 2 | They are generally fed whole to sheep , although this can cause older ewes to shed their incisor teeth prematurely and thus shorten their useful lives . |
| 3 | An exhibition can be viewed as a means of getting noticed and attracting publicity and contracts : as a rare chance of seeing a good deal of your recent work together and thus creating an opportunity for self-evaluation and an assessment of the way your work is developing ; and , by no means least , as a way of selling work . |
| 4 | In its extreme form , as enunciated by Brandon Carter , a cosmologist now at the Paris Observatory , it says that the conditions we observe in the universe must include the various electrical and gravitational constants that hold all planetary matter together and thus give rise to intelligent terrestrial life . |
| 5 | ‘ Profligate spending has not only driven employers and would-be employers away and thus lost jobs , but resources have been taken away from other areas by the rate support grant formula as the spiral of inner city decline causes the rate base in inner city areas to diminish , while their needs … grow ’ |
| 6 | I tossed the cassette to Rickie who , turning away and thus leaving his blind eye facing me , fumbled the catch . |
| 7 | The standard molar enthalpy of oxidation of hydrogen could refer to any of the three balanced chemical equations shown above and thus have any one of the three widely differing values shown above . |
| 8 | Such questions will often generate discussion among the students generally and thus provide a useful means of stimulating their interest . |
| 9 | China is negotiating , rather slowly , to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) ; those outsiders who favour binding China into international trading rules are roughly matched by those who would prefer to keep it outside and thus retain their present freedom to retaliate against its exports . |
| 10 | Threatened groups bring in wives from outside and thus establish important social links promising external support and succour . |
| 11 | On other occasions where the time out has resulted from the child 's angry refusal to do something , he or she can volunteer to do it properly and thus end the punishment . |
| 12 | I can not even press for its performance , since a conspiracy has been formed to produce it , if it must be produced , extremely badly and thus ruin it . |
| 13 | Young men with such ambitions should , it was universally agreed , travel widely and thus gain a personal acquaintance with at least some of the major European states , their problems and resources . |
| 14 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 15 | The turbine had little success as it emptied the mill pond too quickly and thus became inefficient , a common problem with the early turbines . |
| 16 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 17 | Densan tended initially to limit managerial discretion much more and thus seemed to offer a better alternative for labour . |
| 18 | The argument used to support these top-rate tax cuts was that the lower income tax rates should provide extra incentives to work harder and thus boost tax revenue . |
| 19 | This would reduce aggregate demand directly and thus reduce the transactions demand for money . |
| 20 | However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled . |
| 21 | In practice , often enough he will be " invited " to accept such responsibility so that his predecessor can be exonerated therefrom and thus make a " clean break " with the firm . |
| 22 | What happens , I believe , is that a Federal institution like the FRCN tends to report Federal Government news more often and thus leans towards support for the NPN 's view of things . |
| 23 | However , the Italian champions had six players cautioned during the 3–1 win over Red Star Belgrade two weeks ago and thus lose Ivano Bonetti , Pietro Vierchowod and Attilio Lombardo for tonight 's match . |
| 24 | And that was all d'Alembord prayed for at this moment , that Ford would learn success fast and thus calm his worried fears . |
| 25 | Due to the greater bombardment on the slope AB more sand grains will be ejected from this area : these will tend to land again at a distance of one characteristic grain path downwind and thus lead to increased accumulation in that area . |
| 26 | Other cell types — leucocytes and blood platelets — spend much of their time circulating freely and thus showing no adhesive interactions . |