Example sentences of "and [noun] thus [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A study of these perceptions and attitudes thus provides the clue to the understanding of significant tendencies in the countries of the Third World .
2 The duplication and friction thus created was palpable .
3 The electrons and ions thus tend to co-rotate , that is , to have sidereal orbital periods equal to the planet 's sidereal axial period .
4 Many of the other major transitions were not filled in , however , and paleontologists thus concentrated on developments within well defined groups .
5 The complete linkage of D15S12h and p thus suggested that D15S12h might be deleted in radiation-induced p -locus mutations , and Southern blot hybridization analysis demonstrated that all DNA fragments hybridizing to DN10 are deleted in the mouse mutations p r7FR6OLb , p 6H , p r46DFiOD , p 116G and p r25DVT ( Fig. 1 b ) .
6 All this had a debilitating effect upon ecclesiastical morale and discipline , for not only were the king 's servants who enforced his claims upon church property and privileges thus protected , but they were also exempted from necessary reforms : as late as 1303 , precisely on the question of pluralism , the bishop of Worcester and his advisers declined to take action against the multiple pluralist , Ralph Hengham , because he was a royal judge and a member of the king 's council .
7 Without government aid , argue the pro-regionalists , depressed areas disintegrate socially , with the young and the skilled moving away and leaving the old and the unskilled behind ; families and communities thus suffer socially .
8 Ljubic Peric , my Croatian guide , believes that Bosnia 's Muslim president , Alija Izetbegovic , is stalling over the Vance-Owen plan in anticipation of violence here between Muslims and Croats thus proving the plan impractical .
9 It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people .
10 As against this , it is argued that insurance companies act as an additional monitoring agency : in fixing premiums insurers will assess the degree of risk and directors thus have an incentive to minimise the chances of liability arising in order to keep premiums as low as possible .
11 It is possible for such programmes to meet the objectives of organisations such as LEAs and TECs thus attracting additional funding .
12 Duncan and Goodwin thus claim that it is the localized heterogeneity of economic , social and cultural relations , and the plurality of influences which result , that is crucial to the distinctiveness of the local state , and to an understanding of the myriad forms of local politics which are produced .
13 Confidence gained and abilities thus discovered , for example in organising or in public speaking , could be harnessed for wider purposes .
14 Law and custom thus defend the family as the prime agent of socialisation only in so far as it fulfils the task currently prescribed .
15 The principle of equal concern and respect thus appears to offer a promising theoretical foundation for the parallel development of a participatory form of democracy and the generation of a public-law theory of adjudication .
16 Thus the omission of economic factors leads to a divergence of demand estimates between builders and regions thus increasing the potential for unnecessary conflict .
17 If hamlet ( or rather the actor playing him ) , catches a frog in his throat during a soliloquy , since one is experiencing a human drama this need n't be in the least distracting — indeed the element of human fallibility and frailty thus introduced could even enhance the impact of the performance ( admittedly it could also be unintentionally quite hilarious ) !
18 Males and females thus live in largely separate systems only integrated through the overlap in range .
19 The farmsteads and hamlets thus created may have been used initially as temporary steadings , but eventually a number were permanently occupied .
20 Other adults and children thus assume the ethnic group identity ascribed to the designated ‘ head of household ’ .
21 The time passed all too quickly but later all were able to see the resultant masks of heads and hands thus produced .
22 For the full-time housewife , in particular , standards and routines thus serve to keep the ‘ worker ’ employed .
23 This duality between solidity and beauty thus expressed a sharp division between the material and the ideal , the bodily and the spiritual , highly typical of the bourgeois world ; yet spirit and ideal in it depended on matter , and could be expressed only through matter , or at least through the money which could buy it .
24 Traditional Keynesian fine-tuning criteria for output and employment thus suggested expansionary policies for each country at around the same time .
25 The first of these was essentially passive : the press , and particularly the foreign press , might be closely scrutinised , and clues thus obtained to the movement of public feeling in the different states on the international questions of the day .
26 These methods of categorizing components and assemblies thus enable production facilities to be used more efficiently , purchasing requirements to be known more accurately and the conforming of piece-parts and assemblies to functional constraints to be maintained .
27 Points X and Y thus represent the compositions of saturated solutions of A in B and B in A respectively at temperature T4 .
28 Clinton and Neville thus had links both with the court and with Lancaster , and these links perhaps helped to ensure the tacit support of the Lancaster following for Edward 's coup .
29 Science and technology thus ceases to be seen as autonomous but rather as part of an interesting system in which the internalised ideological assumptions help to determine the actual experimental designs and theories of the scientists and technologists themselves .
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