Example sentences of "and thus [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument used to support these top-rate tax cuts was that the lower income tax rates should provide extra incentives to work harder and thus boost tax revenue . |
| 2 | One can then say that it is only things of the second sort which count as things his action prevented , when one is calculating its good and bad effects , and thus distinguish Bentham 's criterion of rightness and wrongness from a rigorist one . |
| 3 | The overall aim of the Enterprise Centre is to enable students and staff to develop the essential enterprise/transferable skills to operate and succeed in a changing employment and business environment and thus make Napier University more responsive to the needs of work . |
| 4 | And , if we can understand and thus make use of Adorno only by historicizing him , we can go beyond him by historicizing his historicism , which reacted to the shocks of Fascism , the demoralization of the Left and the rapid consolidation of administrative capitalism by assuming that past popular cultural traditions had been not merely damaged but shattered , and which asserted a single progressive cultural trajectory , developing from radical bourgeois art ( Beethoven 's , for example ) through to modernism . |
| 5 | They will give us exactly the colour we want , especially if we dovetail them with the bassoons and thus make use of the deep low notes of the second horn . |
| 6 | When US assistance for the French in Vietnam was announced on the same day as the ‘ Schuman Plan ’ that was to merge coal and steel production in France and Germany ‘ and thus make war between the two countries not only unthinkable but materially impossible ’ , it was the prospect of strengthening France , and Germany , in the defence of Western Europe that filled Acheson 's political landscape . |
| 7 | In the mid-1980s the Saudi-supported concern Norbec took to chartering ULCCs and VLCCs in order to hold stocks of crude oil afloat and thus take advantage of any favourable movement in prices after cargoes were loaded . |
| 8 | The trouble broke out when other party leaders voted to change the rules and thus enable delegation members to elect their chairmen ( as committee members have long been able to do ) . |
| 9 | The first objective was to develop a Pinot Noir clone which could resist the frosts in the Marne valley and thus enable vineyards in this predominantly Pinot Meunier area to be replanted with a more noble variety . |
| 10 | The government can also offset the £ 100 cash injection by future taxation or borrowing and thus prevent deposit creation . |
| 11 | In the late 1930s , the demand that Britain make an alliance with the Soviet Union became the key alternative to Chamberlain 's foreign policy — the only combination that had the power to resist Hitler and thus prevent war . |
| 12 | The idea was proposed to Priestley that his carbonated water , which could be prepared on board , might provide doses of carbon dioxide and thus prevent scurvy ( as well as make the distilled sea water more palatable ) . |
| 13 | The task was designed to minimize feelings of risk and thus prevent attention focusing , however , it is possible that actually feeling risk is not necessary for drivers to concentrate exclusively on the risky aspects of the stimuli . |
| 14 | It should help us to communicate and spread experience , feelings , understandings and ideas and thus facilitate action . |
| 15 | The manager must strive systematically to increase responsibility within his team and thus develop experience and confidence in his staff . |
| 16 | Councillor Ronnie Round , chairman of economic development and planning said : ‘ We will be able to dispose of the land at the Lathom Wing and thus finance improvements for the school with no extra cost to the school or the council . ’ |
| 17 | It is one of the inequalities of the education system that the more successful you are the longer you can remain in it and thus delay independence and entry to work . |
| 18 | I wondered if they had simply forgotten to turn off the bulb which annoyingly cast its brightness through a porthole and on to the swirl and rush of white water , and I was half tempted to pull the fuse out of the circuit and thus surround Wavebreaker with darkness , but resisted the impulse . |
| 19 | If all plausible values fall on one side of this point , this result may clarify the issues and thus assist decision-making . |
| 20 | The forces exerted on the contents of the flask by the centrifuge prevent bumping and thus sample loss of contamination . |
| 21 | This directed attention towards the activities and values of key officials — the ‘ urban managers ’ — who , through their positions in influential institutions such as local authorities , building societies , estate agents and the like , could allocate scarce urban resources and thus influence service provision locally . |
| 22 | And er a further er fly in the ointment , if one could put it that way , will be of course with the erm the local hospital whose site is just off this er the key plan provided , their decision from the first of next month to actually charge for spaces within their area , which of course will have a further effect of decanting even more cars into neighbouring streets and thus put pressure on some of the streets which hitherto have not benefited from ah residents ' parking so there will be further er obviously further requests from er from those residents of neighbouring streets . |
| 23 | The next stage in the development of an entity model , therefore , having defined the entities and ‘ fleshed ’ out the entities with attributes , is to associate related entities by relationships and thus put edges into the model . |
| 24 | Civilian users can not decipher as much information from the satellites ' signals and thus get fixes that are less precise . |
| 25 | Measures which meet with the favourable resolve of both Houses are presented for the Royal Assent and thus become law . |
| 26 | If , however , the Commons passes the Bill in the next session , and the Lords again fail to pass it , it can proceed to the Royal Assent , and thus become law , without the concurrence of the House of Lords . |
| 27 | My own answer to that difficult question would be : Because language has the effect that relationships , which among other creatures are generated by inbuilt , genetically endowed , " instincts " ( as in the social insects ) , or by individual stimulus/response mechanisms ( as in the mating behaviours of birds and mammals ) , are , in man , reified as verbal concepts , and thus become matters for group determination rather than individual determination . |
| 28 | It is well known , indeed , that Charles Darwin accepted these Lamarckian notions , but what Lamarckism stands for today is the notion that adaptive changes that occur within an animal 's own lifetime somehow are imprinted upon the genome and thus become part of its heritage . |
| 29 | This model was able to show deviations from the norm and thus show areas of unexpectedly high or low density . |
| 30 | Her crisis had passed , leaving her feeling exhausted and somewhat short of breath ; it would not be difficult to allow Mitzi to rehearse her grievances against the male population without herself expanding on the subject , and thus let Mitzi believe that she was in agreement with her . |