Example sentences of "and thus [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the old test is obviously defective — for example , if it is based on out-of-date linguistic theories and thus lacks construct validity — this measure of concurrent validity will not be very meaningful . |
| 2 | This is one of the so-called auto-immune group of diseases in which the body produces antibodies to its own tissues , and thus begins to destroy them . |
| 3 | Such a particle is heavier than its new surroundings and thus tends to fall back to its original level and then overshoot . |
| 4 | The historian compiling a critical edition of Burnett , for example , requires text critical apparatus and thus tends to rely on software tools and computational methods which are on the whole developed by and for literary scholars . |
| 5 | Instead , individualism is motivated by a desire to defend the idea that individuals are autonomous agents , and thus tends to focus on a particular set of individual properties , including desires , choices , decisions and intentions . |
| 6 | Firstly , it is an order matching system and thus tends to have a slower response rate than , say , LIFFE 's APT system . |
| 7 | B : There 's a yellow VW outside Sue 's house Here B 's contribution , taken literally , fails to answer A's question , and thus seems to violate at least the maxims of Quantity and Relevance . |
| 8 | But the citizen who misunderstands , and thus fails to heed , the dictates of an ambiguous Act of Parliament is liable to suffer much more serious consequences . |
| 9 | I might argue that a particular capitalist economist is so embedded in the political and economic structure of the society that employs him that he fails to represent adequately the challenge levelled by ‘ political economy ’ to the perspective he purveys , and thus fails to take into account multiple points of view . |
| 10 | From their point of view individualism gives up too soon , and thus fails to reveal a whole dimension of the social world . |
| 11 | Instead , I hope to show that Poulantzas relies , for the explanatory force of these claims , on our pre-theoretical , voluntarist understanding of them , and thus fails to provide us with examples of the holistic form of explanation he advocates . |