Example sentences of "and thus [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following from Donoghue v. Stevenson there have been a number of cases which have sought to apply the neighbour principle to different situations and thus broaden its scope . |
| 2 | He called meetings to solicit their views and thus began his own experiments with what was effectively community architecture . |
| 3 | They are generally fed whole to sheep , although this can cause older ewes to shed their incisor teeth prematurely and thus shorten their useful lives . |
| 4 | These " Whiggish Jacobites " , as they referred to themselves , produced a number of pamphlets in which they argued that William , through various acts of despotism , had broken the contract he had made with the nation in 1689 , and thus forfeited his right to obedience . |
| 5 | Mere preservation , however , can lead eventually to decay and thus defeats its object . |
| 6 | Alternatively , are they likely to concentrate even more on the top end of the market , because their fees will rise pro rata with salaries and thus increase their fee income ? |
| 7 | One of the legends here is that a local authority inspector told a tenant that her furniture was too near the floor and thus rotting her carpet . |
| 8 | Green voters will ( it is suggested ) have given their second-preference votes to him , and thus secured his election . |
| 9 | A few miles further on , the eleven-year-old fell asleep in his saddle and Gloucester , unwilling to call a halt at that stage and thus delay their entry into London , insisted that he be conveyed the rest of the way in a horse-drawn litter . |
| 10 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |
| 11 | ‘ The education you receive here , ’ he said at length , ‘ should equip you to realise your own powers and thus to serve your community to your utmost . |
| 12 | All were equally intent on bringing the icon down and thus perpetuating their own careers . |
| 13 | The fans still loved their idol , and Mitchum could now afford to relax and believe that his studio would not find itself forced to invoke the ‘ morals clause ’ and thus cancel his contract . |
| 14 | Of course , novelists have a license to invent their speech , and thus to heighten its qualities for dramatic impact , which is not granted to the journalist or sociologist . |
| 15 | China is negotiating , rather slowly , to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) ; those outsiders who favour binding China into international trading rules are roughly matched by those who would prefer to keep it outside and thus retain their present freedom to retaliate against its exports . |
| 16 | For LDCs , economic growth should reduce their reliance on foreign aid and assistance and thus raise their self-esteem in the world community . |
| 17 | It provided a genuine incentive for the worker to intensify his labour and thus raise his productivity , a guarantee against slacking , an automatic device for reducing the wage-bill in times of depression , as well as a convenient method — by the cutting of piece-rates — to reduce labour costs and to prevent wages from rising higher than was thought necessary or proper . |
| 18 | In a large construction the silhouette of the ground floors , entrances , exits and more intimate areas can take precedence over the structure as a whole ( see ‘ Foveal and peripheral vision ’ ) and thus become its representative . |
| 19 | You can concentrate the detecting on to one single personality , and thus concentrate your reader 's attention equally . |
| 20 | An important point is that nearly all the methods which measure use must by definition relate to use of libraries ' existing collections , and thus reflect their existing limitations . |
| 21 | The difficulty with all policy-oriented research is that it begins by defining ‘ problems ’ and then by investigation helps to create that which lt wishes to observe' This type of research helps to create a cognitive revolution in its subjects and thus produces its expected findings . |
| 22 | They were , first , practical measures such as speed humps to make drivers aware of their speed and thus slow their vehicles ; second , a designed environment that conveys to the driver the fact that the area is one whose function is principally for living not travelling , with a consequent imparted feeling that awareness of soft traffic is imperative ; third , a legal change in priority , so that all occupants of the street space are equal ; and fourth , lest drivers are encouraged to view the new street layout as a challenge to driving skill rather than an encouragement of self-restraint and caution , a new regulation on car speeds . |
| 23 | He launched it on March 16th , the day he took office , and thus fulfilled his campaign promise to ‘ leave the right wing indignant and the left gasping . ’ |
| 24 | I tossed the cassette to Rickie who , turning away and thus leaving his blind eye facing me , fumbled the catch . |
| 25 | This often proves difficult , however , because of the way in which daily transactions between government and public affect bankers ' balances , causing banks to buy or sell bills to replenish their cash balances and thus to affect their yield . |
| 26 | It is CPRW 's view that consent for the Meadow House application would contradict existing local planning policies and thus undermine their credibility . |
| 27 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 28 | Consequently , they have an even greater need to neutralize the moral bind of the law and thus protect their respectability and self-identity from the signs of discreditability implicit in corporate crimes . |
| 29 | Phoebe was not going to devour her in love and thus keep her safe from the great fangs and wraths of Fenna . |
| 30 | If the client 's competitors trade on terms which minimise their liability , the client may have to do likewise in order to obtain insurance cover as cheaply as possible , and thus keep its prices competitive . |