Example sentences of "[vb pp] and thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some things need to be attended to very quickly because of the changed circumstances ; others , because they provide a refuge from ‘ thinking about things ’ , keep people occupied and thus leave no time for speculation or for unhappy thoughts to flood in . |
| 2 | It was a celebration of their talents because , by being confined — so to speak — to those steps which they most enjoyed and thus performed best , they positively sparkled . |
| 3 | In Skinner 's instrumental learning/conditioning process ( as opposed to Pavlov 's classical conditioning ) the student emits a foreign language response which is comprehended and thus rewarded by the reinforcement of the teacher 's approval . |
| 4 | As no order will have been made in respect of the property at this stage , the defendant appears to be free to dispose of it before the order can be made and thus defeat the object of making the order . |
| 5 | The presence of these additional mystical agencies complements the non-mystical causes already examined and thus expands the range of explanation . |
| 6 | The discipline is the only means by which these forces are consumed and thus destroyed . |
| 7 | And as we " progress " towards the twenty-first century we are rapidly consuming all the stores of energy that are easily consumed and thus becoming more and more reliant on the less accessible stores of energy . |
| 8 | At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers . |
| 9 | Chemical apparatus tends to be broken , or reused in new arrangements ; but the historian may hope that even here laboratories may have had capacious cupboards into which unused pieces have been stuffed and thus preserved . |
| 10 | A partner may be solicited to enable the enlister to achieve dominance in an altercation which does not necessarily involve any disputed object ; such partners were not involved in the incident until they were solicited and thus had a ‘ choice ’ as to whether to collaborate or not . |
| 11 | Then the range of speeds that can be measured is very wide ; fractional Doppler shifts as small as 10 -15 can be measured and thus speeds down to less than — far lower than those normally encountered in fluid dynamics — though not all systems are capable of this . |
| 12 | Its high resistance to detonation allows high compression ratios to be used and thus offers potential for more power than petrol ; little or not particulate emissions come out the exhaust pipe and CO 2 production is relatively low . |
| 13 | The assumption is that increasing arousal should reduce the number of peripheral cues used and thus impair performance on the subsidiary task while improving performance on a main task . |
| 14 | All involve production for simple monetary exchange ; the work is offered for sale and is bought and thus owned . |
| 15 | The Elves landed and thus began the battle of the waves . |
| 16 | Whilst it is conceivable that some of these jobs will be craft based and thus provide an outlet for some initiative and self activism , the significant reality will be that they have no economic power and no industrial muscle . |
| 17 | In the absence of a formal QC system we are forced to consider informal or intuitive approaches or factors that might ensure that a failure of the analytical system is detected and thus prevent seriously erroneous data being reported . |
| 18 | A prerequisite for such a standard is a shared language , a list of common terms capable of being coded and thus transmitted electronically . |
| 19 | There are two general principles involved in putting right the unsatisfactory situation we have gradually disentangled and thus clarified . |
| 20 | Because of his firm grasp of the relationship between the material elements of reproduction he was not hoodwinked and thus saw all armaments as being essentially unproductive consumption and wasteful . |
| 21 | More specialist managers and salesmen were employed ; and supplies of engineering and office equipment were standardised and thus cheapened . |
| 22 | Control subjects that experienced training in which the immediate consequences of the light did not differ in their reinforcing value from one trial to another ( for these the interval between the offset of the light and food delivery was fixed and thus did not depend on whether it contained a tone or a clicker ) showed a steady decline in the frequency of the OR . |
| 23 | But he saw natural selection as less important than the Lamarckian mechanism in which self-improvements resulting from the individual 's response to environmental challenge are inherited and thus accumulate to change the species . |
| 24 | In that way it would increase the number of such clients supported and thus become an even more cost-effective service . |
| 25 | The so-called Stalker affair re-emerged throughout January 1990 following the collapse on Jan. 18 of fraud charges against Kevin Taylor , a Manchester businessman and alleged criminal with whom John Stalker , the former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester , was said to have associated and thus to have engaged in discreditable conduct . |
| 26 | The success of the ad hoc collaboration and co-operation between Hickson and Jacques during the war owed little to the elaborate mechanism of the RAC so tortuously constructed and thus led inevitably to its demise . |
| 27 | According to Wimsatt , for instance ( 1958 : 241 ) ; , ‘ poetry is a complex kind of verbal construction in which the dimension of coherence is by various techniques of implication greatly enhanced and thus generates an extra dimension of correspondence to reality , the symbolic or analogical ’ . |
| 28 | It is certainly what would be expected if the latent inhibitor functions like a CS- but it could just as easily be a consequence of generalization decrement — adding another stimulus to the excitatory CS might modify the way in which the latter is perceived and thus reduce its ability to evoke the CR . |
| 29 | I say unwittingly because originally the second nine was intended to be the first , but this was changed and thus gave the second nine its water-strewn flavour . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , there is always a need to examine variances from budget to identity those which could be controlled and thus require management action . |