Example sentences of "and thus [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His successor , Mehmet Yazar , formerly a Minister of State , was appointed on March 1 and thus became Turkey 's third Defence Minister since the start of the Gulf crisis [ see p. 37786 ] . |
| 2 | On Oct. 30 a controversial measure giving blanket immunity to anyone who had committed a politically motivated crime before Oct. 8 , 1990 [ see p. 39037 ] was approved by the President 's Council and thus became law , despite its having been rejected on Oct. 20 by the House of Delegates , the Indian chamber of the tricameral parliament . |
| 3 | In 1854 Holford married Mary Anne , daughter of General James Lindsay , MP , of Balcarres , Fife , and thus became brother-in-law to three collectors , Alexander Crawford ( twenty-fifth Earl of Crawford ) , Robert Lindsay ( Baron Wantage ) [ qq.v. ] , and Sir Coutts Lindsay . |
| 4 | The Argentinian hero then recommended Willie to Lee Trevino , and thus began Willie 's relationship with Supermex . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Women gained access to relatively safe abortion , and thus gained control over their own fertility . |
| 8 | Born in Romania ( and thus sharing part of Leonard 's eastern European background ) , transferred by his parents to Canada in the harsh years of the early century , he represents , perhaps more than any other , not the genteel ‘ English ’ background common to many of his fellow-workers , but a rough , raw Canadian view that is intensely patriotic , proletarian , passionate and pure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Marx made the point that : ‘ Production in general is an abstraction , but a sensible abstraction insofar as it actually emphasises and defines the common aspects and thus avoids repetition . ’ |
| 15 | After he had travelled through England he started on his foreign travels and thus explored Flanders and Holland , because he knew that there were also great horticulturalists there and with the science and management of ornamental and kitchen gardens which there reached a high pitch of excellence . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In addition to finding that many Boroughs actually made a profit from council house rents , and thus subsidized ratepayers , they found that the highest transfer from rates to council housing was no less than 443 per cent above average . |
| 19 | The government can also offset the £ 100 cash injection by future taxation or borrowing and thus prevent deposit creation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When the loans are redeposited in banks , they form the base for yet more loans , and thus takes place a process of multiple credit expansion . |
| 24 | It was also agreed to drop the clause in the draft constitution prohibiting serving members of the armed forces from standing in the presidential elections , and thus allowing Eyadema to run . |
| 25 | It should help us to communicate and spread experience , feelings , understandings and ideas and thus facilitate action . |
| 26 | The manager must strive systematically to increase responsibility within his team and thus develop experience and confidence in his staff . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In the ECM the avoidance of reserve requirements , etc. , permits the payment of higher interest on deposits ( competition forced these cost savings to be passed on to depositors ) while large loans are arranged in many cases by telephone or telex , and thus operating costs are kept to a minimum . |
| 30 | 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 . |