Example sentences of "[to-vb] and thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for children 's ability to concentrate and thus benefit from school , as well as for the self-discipline required to achieve success in a chosen field of endeavour ; |
| 2 | The League had little alternative but to disband and thus allow its members to continue their campaign within the Labour Party as individuals . |
| 3 | It has led to our recognition of the difficulties inherent in the codes which texts employ to articulate what could otherwise not have been written , of the difficult negotiations between ideological expression and the things this expression seeks to characterise and thus control , and of the complexities of a text 's own negotiations with other texts . |
| 4 | It had argued that adequate pension support for the elderly would encourage them to retire and thus increase younger workers ' employment prospects . |
| 5 | Stress reduces the body 's ability to heal and thus needs to be minimized . |
| 6 | A vomitoxin can be absorbed through the skin , causing a soldier to remove his mask to vomit and thus exposing him to other toxic agents , through his respiratory system . |
| 7 | The heat from the steam jacket causes the liquid to vaporise and thus remove the stopper . |
| 8 | Mere preservation , however , can lead eventually to decay and thus defeats its object . |
| 9 | What encourages children to read and thus to learn to read is not some ‘ intrinsic reward ’ like praise or high marks or a special treat , but being able to read . |
| 10 | But soon this force also was obliged to retreat and thus came within the grasp of a new figure , General Joseph Galliéni , the recently appointed Military Governor of the French capital and the man who , above all , was to save France from conquest . |
| 11 | The position is , the Court says , that Article 3(1) ‘ does not prevent ’ a worker from refusing to transfer and thus deciding ‘ not to take advantage of the protection conferred by the Directive ’ ( point 33 ) . |
| 12 | Problems arise , however , when it becomes impossible to allow a long enough fallow period between cropping for the forest to redevelop and thus restore the nutrient content of the ecosystem . |
| 13 | He argued that correctionalism ‘ systematically interferes with the capacity to empathise and thus comprehend the subject of enquiry ’ ( ibid. , p. 15 ) , and consequently increases ‘ the possibility of ‘ losing the phenomenon ’ — reducing it to that which it is not ’ ( ibid. p. 17 ) . |
| 14 | As agreed in August 1988 [ see pp. 36294-95 ] New Zealand and Australia on July 1 , 1990 , abolished all remaining barriers to trade and thus completed the closer economic relations ( CER ) agreement which provided for completely free trade in goods , services and other commercial dealings between the two countries . |
| 15 | Best-known to the general public perhaps , are experiments where reconstructions of early boats and ships have been used to follow and thus test the feasibility of migration routes which might have been used by ancient people , such as the experiments conducted by Thor Heyerdahl . |
| 16 | A prospective tenant , who may be unable to recover all input tax , needs a clause in the lease to stop the landlord opting to tax and thus increasing the rent ( s 42 ) . |