Example sentences of "[noun prp] and thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About three-quarters of the judges are educated at public schools and Oxford or Cambridge , but there are also other factors that reinforce their exclusiveness : their socialization into the legal life via their training as barristers ( that is those entitled to appear in the higher courts ) and the need to demonstrate professional competence in order to ‘ take silk ’ , that is become a Queen 's Counsel and thus gain themselves a place among the elite of barristers from whom judges are chosen . |
| 2 | Either Kuzmitch was lying ( and defectors often do ) , or Blake was a very clever spy who , despite the temptation to confide in Kuzmitch and thus get better treatment , maintained his role as a long-term sleeper agent . |
| 3 | Charles Greville , into the hands of Paul Sandby ( 1725–1809 ) who , in 1775 , published Twelve Views in Aquatinta and thus began a vogue that reached its artistic peak with such artists as Thomas Malton ( 1748–1804 ) and William Daniell ( 1769–1837 ) , mentioned above . |
| 4 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 5 | A London Irish player from Western Samoa , second row Mata'afa Keenan , is also expected to declare for Ireland and thus become eligible for the Exiles . |
| 6 | The policy became known under the slogan ‘ Wandel durch Annäherung ’ ( encouraging change through rapprochement ) and it led to huge financial subsidies to one of the most brutal regimes in Europe , considerably increasing the standard of living in East Germany and thus legitimising the absurd claims of Honecker and Ulbricht to have created ‘ real existing socialism ’ . |
| 7 | He tried to get a post at the British Museum , and was most indignant when it went to George Children , a friend of Davy and thus possessing superior patronage . |
| 8 | There is evidence that ions and electrons are exchanged between Io and the Jovian atmosphere , constituting massive electric currents that could help heat Io and thus help maintain its volcanic activity . |
| 9 | However , we hare unhappy that HMG has recently felt unable to support the early conclusion of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty , since we believe — as does the Vatican 's representative at the United Nations — that a halt to nuclear testing is essential to the successful prolongation of the NPT and thus to progress in preventing nuclear proliferation . |
| 10 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 11 | The canal 's purpose was to link the Stroudwater Navigation with the Thames and thus provide an inland waterway from the Black Country to London via the Severn , but it was never a commercial success and was finally abandoned in the early years of the present century . |
| 12 | Mortgage rate increases are likely to take effect in November and thus reverse a widely expected fall in inflation for this month . |
| 13 | The ILEA covered the area of the former LCC and thus ensured a continuity going back to the establishment of the London School Board in 1870 ( Maclure 1988 : 110 — 11 ) . |
| 14 | Although she does admire the friendship of the two men , she is doing it to please Bassanio and thus gaining love from him — which profits no one except herself . |
| 15 | IHTA 1984 , s65(7) however provides that there will be no interim charge by reason only that the property ceases to be situated in the United Kingdom and thus becomes excluded property because of IHTA 1984 , s48(3) ( a ) . |
| 16 | With more first preference votes as a result of successful equalisation McNarry might have expected to stay in the count longer than Bradford and thus receive votes from the transfers of opponents . |
| 17 | The rest of mankind , including the American Indians , were of quite separate and earlier stock , all members of which are , by their nature , lost in primeval savagery , except the Christians who have been redeemed by the grace of Christ and thus belong to God 's Elect . |
| 18 | This was made explicit by Louis Agassiz , a Swiss who had in 1840 recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe and thus given us the idea of ice ages . |
| 19 | An agreement on the first of these had always been an objective of the Soviet leadership , in order to stabilise the situation in Europe and thus secure formal Western acceptance of the post-war settlement in Eastern Europe . |
| 20 | Germany lies at the heart of Europe and thus epitomises it . |
| 21 | He did so successfully in 1948 , outpointing Vince Hawkins at Birmingham and thus becoming the first black champion to be recognized by the BBBC . |
| 22 | Kovalenko concluded that it was ‘ highly improbable that the five ASEAN countries , which lack adequate political , economic and military strength to force the imperialist powers to withdraw from Southeast Asia and thus make it possible for its people independently to determine their future , will be able to solve this question on their own ’ . |
| 23 | The university enjoys a location which historically has ensured that it is an important part of the fabric of the city of Edinburgh and thus placed in Scotland 's capital that it remains an important symbol for the nation 's egalitarian spirit , its diverse cultural identity and true internationalism . |
| 24 | President Truman and his advisers were anxious over Sino-Soviet relations and wondered whether American forces could take the port of Dairen and thus prevent the Soviet Union from occupying the Liaotung peninsula of south Manchuria . |
| 25 | Fourthly , London is situated in a favourable time-zone between the Far East and North America and thus acts as a valuable/key link between various national money and foreign exchange markets . |
| 26 | The resulting Berlin-Budapest axis prevented any real hope of a rapprochement between Paris and Vienna and thus completed the virtual isolation of France in Europe . |
| 27 | In the late 1930s , the demand that Britain make an alliance with the Soviet Union became the key alternative to Chamberlain 's foreign policy — the only combination that had the power to resist Hitler and thus prevent war . |