Example sentences of "and [verb] thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Multiple nuclei describes a big city that has expanded and absorbed small towns and villages and has thus created outlying service areas . |
| 2 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |
| 3 | In all cases , the brain has been damaged and has thus lost its ability to control motor movement in the usual fashion . |
| 4 | It has created enormous cities … and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ How 's Angharad ? ’ asked Betty , who had , last night , discussed at length with Elizabeth the problems and frustrations of bringing up a defective child and felt thus freed to go on talking about it . |
| 6 | The principles and advances thus established on behalf of individual litigants and at their prompting redounded to the benefit of the king , not least when his own servants were suing other clergy and patrons for possession of benefices to which the king had presented them ; in particular the livings affected by the new pluralism laws would be likely subjects of such writs . |
| 7 | Yet by the late seventeenth century it is not one of the main roads described by John Ogilby in his atlas , Britannia , and had thus lost its former significance by that date . |
| 8 | What particularly incensed the good bishop was that Passelewe as a Forest judge had ordered the arrest and imprisonment of clerks as well as laymen , and had thus flouted clerical privileges . |
| 9 | Mr Silvers , however , had remembered the significance the visit would have for my father , and had thus called him in to offer him the option of taking several days ' leave for the duration of the General 's stay . |
| 10 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |
| 11 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 12 | A variant theme in recent historiography has been that by the mid-ninth century , nobles had been too much influenced by the church 's stress on peace , and had thus become unfit for military service . |
| 13 | The Book issued in 1558 had given fairly realistic values and had thus helped to increase the revenue ; thence forward the values remained almost unchanged until the reign of James I. Nominal duties of 5 per cent had gradually been eroded to something less than 3 per cent . |
| 14 | The Commando raids , however , had been too unwieldy and had thus lacked the element of surprise . |
| 15 | He had in fact saved the lands and life of Sir Thomas , who was charged with supplying money to Margaret of Anjou during the Wars of the Roses and had thus infuriated the king . |
| 16 | Either they had been obliged to renew such contracts , perhaps several times , and had thus come under pressure to give the workers concerned permanent status , or they had found themselves carrying workers whose fixed-term contracts had not yet expired , despite the fact that they were no longer needed . |
| 17 | Instead , he rationalized his thoughts and justified himself Adam probably — indeed , almost certainly — knew nothing about the find in the pine wood , but Adam had once owned the house and had thus taken on a responsibility . |
| 18 | ‘ Our women are constantly having to fight in shop queues , and have thus become aggressive and unfeminine . |
| 19 | For example , cerebellar Purkinje cells have a very high density of IP 3 Rs and have thus featured significantly in the purification , cloning and fine-structural localization of this receptor . |
| 20 | As a result of different levels of personal mobility , the former types of place have tended to attract people who are younger , better qualified , more enterprising and more wealthy and have thus gained at the expense of the larger cities and less dynamic industrial areas , causing the latter a double blow in terms of both quantity and quality . |
| 21 | CACI have identified 2380 areas of concentrated retail activity and have thus created a comprehensive picture of retailing in Great Britain . |
| 22 | Population growth , the need for foreign currency earnings , and foreign aid have , in the past three or four decades , stimulated agricultural development in developing nations and have thus prompted environmental change . |
| 23 | Each has its own advantages and disadvantages and have thus found their own areas of application . |