Example sentences of "[pers pn] and thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no reason why we should not lock our vehicles when we leave them and thus prevent that crime . |
| 2 | In a scouting role they can be used to pin down enemy troops by getting within 8″ of them and thus preventing march moves . |
| 3 | He suggests that there is a strong argument for decentralization to local government ( and potentially a limited hierarchy with some overlapping powers ) so long as information is available which makes it possible for voters to judge between them and thus to influence the direction of their own local government through elections . |
| 4 | Lyn was up 7–1 ( ! ) to Brann away and looked to have saved themselves with three minutes to go — but they relaxed to early and got two late , late goals against them and thus won 7–3 , a goal to little and was relegated . |
| 5 | Napoleon 's Number One Fan , who during Abel Gance 's film was accused by the man in the next seat of masturbating underneath his hat and splashing his wife , but who stoutly defended himself by saying that the unfortunate staining would never have happened if she had n't nudged him and thus dislodged the titfer from his lap . |
| 6 | Instead of worrying about the marginal impact the Directive will have in Britain , the Government should be actively supporting it and thus helping establish stronger conservation safeguards in the rest of Europe , " said Dr Simon Lyster , WWF Senior Conservation Officer . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the town council is divided on whether to make the cathedral less accessible to desperate men by placing a fence around it and thus lose a centuries-old tradition . |
| 8 | Adult women will have the unappealing choice between rejecting women 's language and so becoming ‘ less than a woman ’ , or embracing it and thus acquiescing in their inferiority — becoming ‘ less than a person ’ . |
| 9 | In 1836 Gossage devised a method of absorbing the acid gas in which a steady stream of water descending a tower ( the ‘ Gossage tower ’ ) containing twigs , bracken , and bricks , came in contact with a steady stream of the gas ascending the tower , so dissolving it and thus bringing the dangerous nuisance under a high degree of control . |
| 10 | Generally you ‘ reward ’ it and thus make it more likely to recur , by giving in to him . |
| 11 | It is one of the inequalities of the education system that the more successful you are the longer you can remain in it and thus delay independence and entry to work . |
| 12 | After all , the postal map of London S.W.1 had been drawn with a special excrescence to enable Harrods to be included in it and thus avoid the ignominy of falling within the outer darkness of S.W.3 or 7 . |
| 13 | Thus Witold Gombrowicz 's apparently anti-political call for ‘ an elusive man who is a play of contradictions ’ is really a fierce rebuke to the totalitarian preference for deathly form over vital chaos ; and the absurdist satire on display in Yuz Aleshkovsky 's ‘ Kangaroo ’ , whose protagonist eventually comes to believe the KGB 's charge that he sodomised a marsupial in the Moscow Zoo ‘ on a night between July 14th 1789 , and January 9th 1905 ’ ( note the dates ) , is ‘ the only way for a free mind to cope … an abuse of official language that will overpower it and thus defeat it . ’ |
| 14 | Then the head is distorted in a sweeping spiral movement so that the spectator is obliged to move completely around it and thus gathers a very complete idea about it ; and , owing to the element of distortion , from several positions one sees more of the head than would be possible in ordinary vision . |
| 15 | As the shell emerges from the gun barrel at more than 15000 m/s , aluminium petals peel away to reveal a long , thin tungsten-alloy rod with fins at the rear to stabilise it and thus improve accuracy . |
| 16 | The perfection of this design is attested by the fact that species belonging to quite different families of fish have adopted it and thus bear a strong resemblance to one another . |
| 17 | The more complex the life-cycle , the easier it should be to interrupt it and thus eradicate the parasite , but each link in the phylloxera chain appears to be capable of regenerating a modified cycle . |
| 18 | It is simply a question of what sort of world we wish to inhabit — one of predictability , or one where the outcome is unknown to us and thus includes an element of self-exploration . |