Example sentences of "thus [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Davy 's brief was rigidly defined . |
| 2 | Thus Walters 's analysis of government data for 1949 and 1951 concluded that different conclusions could be reached depending on the measure of morbidity adopted . |
| 3 | As a courtier , he saw all issues in the light cast by the shifting world of court favour : thus Godoy 's support of the French alliance was consistently conditioned by his desire to use it against his enemies at court or his hopes of a safe retreat from these enemies in a Portuguese principality bestowed on him by France . |
| 4 | For the time being , notice that on two occasions , Carol interrupts the flow of her own talk , trying to remember when a particular event took place — and on both occasions her self-interruption is in LE , interrupting a Creole sequence : Thus Carol 's talk in this conversation can be analysed as making use of two distinct codes , " Creole " and " English " , between which she moves systematically from time to time . |
| 5 | Thus Sartre 's attempt to prove the truth of Marxism and of History at a philosophical level was abandoned . |
| 6 | Thus Sherman 's intent and expectancy became clear to his teachers . |
| 7 | Thus Barthes 's account of wrestling does not seem so strange and unlikely as if it were merely his own and there were no alternative account against which his was implicitly juxtaposed . |
| 8 | Thus Aintree 's recall man for the past seven years became the sacrificial offering so that the Jockey Club bigwigs could get on with more important business like tarting themselves up for Ascot and tea with the Royals . |
| 9 | Thus Mandelstam 's head is a silhouette , surrounded by a void around which is a box-like form representing his years of exile in the Urals and the last five years of his life in a labour camp followed by death in a concentration camp . |
| 10 | M. Polanyi wrote that beauty can reveal truth about nature ; thus Einstein 's theory of relativity was extolled by a fellow scientist for the grandeur , boldness , and directness of the thought which made everything more beautiful and grand . |
| 11 | Thus Pauli 's principle ensures that each electron within the atom has identity , and status ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 12 | Thus Kafka 's novel The Trial , for example , can be read , from different positions , as ( a ) mediation by projection — an arbitrary and irrational social system is not directly described , in its own terms , but projected , in its essentials , as strange and alien ; or ( b ) mediation by the discovery of an ‘ objective correlative' — a situation and characters are composed to produce , in an objective form , the subjective or actual feelings — an inexpressible guilt — from which the original impulse to composition came ; or ( c ) mediation as a function of the fundamental social processes of consciousness , in which certain crises which can not otherwise be directly apprehended are ‘ crystallized ’ in certain direct images and forms of art — images which then illuminate a basic ( social and psychological ) condition : not just Kafka 's but a general alienation . |
| 13 | Thus Wittgenstein 's notion of a criterion seems to provide the sort of compromise we are looking for . |
| 14 | Thus Marvell 's escapism is more complete than Marlowe 's which seems to be pure fantasy and wish fulfilment . |
| 15 | There , Stirling heard by radio that Tripoli had fallen on 23 January , and thus Jordan 's mission was vital . |
| 16 | Thus Emerson 's career breaks into three parts : his years as a champion and at the top of the FI drivers ' hit parade , his years as an unhappy and frustrated team-manager and his last years as an itinerant driver in search of a lost career . |
| 17 | Thus Marx 's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved . |
| 18 | Thus people 's cash requirements have proportionately reduced ( see Box 16.5 ) . |
| 19 | Thus woman 's sphere had to be limited for the sake of the race . |
| 20 | Thus woman 's sexuality is held to be her most important asset . |
| 21 | Thus Eikmeyer 's network prompts the re-evaluation of the Co-operative Principle concept in terms of text variations from a prototypical case , matched by readers ' efforts to process back towards the centre by finding coherence . |
| 22 | Thus Mendel 's paper on the inherited characteristics of peas , published in an obscure journal in what is now part of Czechoslovakia , was uncited for many years , but the ideas contained within it are now an integral part of the genetics paradigm . |
| 23 | The apparent parallel between the development of the human individual and the history of life on earth is thus God 's symbol telling us that we are the goal of His creation . |
| 24 | Thus Hanson 's role in redeploying industrial assets can be helpful . |
| 25 | Thus Moore 's position on the rightness and wrongness of actions is a form of rigoristic utilitarianism in which effects in terms of intrinsic good and bad replace effects in terms of pleasure and pain . |
| 26 | Thus Moore 's methodology points inevitably to his main ethical conclusion , which is that nothing , or at least very little , is to any great degree good except for cases of personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects and that everything in life which does not come under these heads has barely any value apart from whatever it may have as a means of promoting these great goods . |
| 27 | Thus Garland 's version of the prison suggests the mixture of Beccarian classicism ( proportionality for deterrent purposes ) and retributive justice ( proportionality according to desert ) that , as we have seen , was the hallmark of neoclassicism . |
| 28 | Thus Kohlberg 's theory seems more a political manifesto than a scientific statement . |
| 29 | Thus Cripps 's patience snapped in one encounter with a top American official who , he complained , had wasted his time with a " schoolboy lecture " on the complicated problems which afflicted Europe . |
| 30 | Thus Moabit 's work cost some 29 DM per square metre of street , but a third of this was the cost of the planting . |