Example sentences of "and thus [vb base] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former makes the point that genetically engineered bacteria tend to be much less viable than their naturally occurring counterparts and thus tend to die off rapidly . |
| 2 | As one of the few major acoustic companies who are n't trying to emulate anyone else , Lowden 's guitars have great strength of character and thus tend to polarise guitarists into two camps : those who utterly adore them , and those who are left dry-eyed and unmoved . |
| 3 | Naturally those anthropologists who grant culture such imperative force tend to see social relations as the product of cultural patterning and conditioning , and thus tend to concentrate on child-rearing practices , enculturation , and socialization . |
| 4 | At their most confident , holists expect to supersede the need for any individualist explanations , and thus undertake to provide powerful and wide-ranging social theories . |
| 5 | Documentaries still seek the sensational and thus help to compound the fears of the public about mental handicap hospitals . |
| 6 | Such a development can only encourage participation in trades union councils and thus help to strengthen the entire movement at grass root level . |
| 7 | Campbell suggests that this is due to their own recognition , as vulnerable women , of the problem of male violence and thus wish to have it controlled . |
| 8 | Such councils might , conceivably , ‘ attract the interests of politically minded Africans and thus serve to diminish the demand for representation in a central Legislature by recourse to a system of electorates ’ . |
| 9 | Politicians , however , were quite capable of making any assistance look somewhat larger than life and thus attempt to reap the last ounce of voter gratitude for their services . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In order to make their claim that his decentred totality is still expressive and therefore essentialist , they have to ignore the arguments about temporality in the critique of the Hegelian essential section as ‘ the co-existence of presence ’ , and thus fail to do justice to the way in which Althusser constructs , as Foucault puts it , ‘ a counter-memory — a transformation of history into a totally different form of time ’ . |
| 12 | Staleness can set in , so that one partner or both cease to be inventive , settle for the familiar and thus fail to move the partnership along . |
| 13 | Our society has tended to place women in a subservient relationship to men and some women find themselves drawn towards dominant or dependent partners and thus fail to assert their own needs as individuals . |
| 14 | Above that limit the bassoons begin to sound rather thin and thus fail to fulfil the desired object . |
| 15 | It is too easy to assume that older patients can not inject their own insulin and thus need to involve relatives or the district nurse . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If , however , the Bank of England attempts to maintain an exchange rate below the equilibrium , it must continue to supply extra sterling to meet the shortfall and thus continue to expand the money supply . |
| 18 | However , the House of Lords preferred to see a conviction for murder in these cases , with the use of executive discretion to secure an early release from the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for offenders who killed when under duress , and thus appear to have reduced culpability . |
| 19 | But other theories do enquire and thus have to take an interest in what actors think that other actors think . |
| 20 | Life being what it is , unfortunately , our desires inevitably conflict , especially since we are social beings as well as individuals ( Richards invokes Bentham here ) , and thus have to consider the needs of others as well as our own . |