Example sentences of "are thus [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the extent that they are thus led to perform well this is obviously desirable ; the problem is that , in attempting to avoid noticeable mistakes , they ignore the costs that must be borne by the public . |
| 2 | Householders are thus tempted to purchase this less well-known brand more upon the basis of price than comparative performance . |
| 3 | Once the presence of a carcass has been directly or indirectly detected , they glide down to it rapidly , and large numbers of vultures are thus enabled to assemble in a short time . |
| 4 | Miniature roses , sometimes not more than 6 inches ( 15cm ) high when full grown , are often denigrated and derided as toys — which is most unfair because a great many people with the most limited facilities who would otherwise miss out are thus enabled to experience the satisfaction of rose growing . |
| 5 | We are thus enabled to distinguish more easily the would-be functionalist 's explicans ( interactional structure ) from the explicandum ( language ) . |
| 6 | Systems are thus configured to provide various tools , which range from two-dimensional drafting programs , for the production of engineering drawings to set standards , through to full solid and surface modelling , in order that complex objects can be machined . |
| 7 | The arch-Kinnockites in the Tribune Group have shifted entirely into John Smith 's camp and are thus considered to have come out in their true colours as right-wingers . |
| 8 | Since technologies are ‘ neutral ’ , then no aspersions are being cast on individual members of cultures which happen to lack a particular technology and are thus taken to lack certain intellectual advantages . |
| 9 | They were constructed for human interpretation and they are thus designed to provide verbal explanations and translations of words , rather than the morphological , syntactic and semantic data required by NLP lexicons . |
| 10 | They are thus compelled to release their eggs while they are still high on the rock and a brown rain of spawn falls sporadically from as high as twenty feet . |
| 11 | Dischargers are thus permitted to pollute by the water authorities — but only ( in theory ) up to those levels set out in the discharger 's consent document . |
| 12 | They are thus forced to extend the area of cultivation on to land hitherto used by pastoralists for seasonal grazing . |
| 13 | We are thus forced to identify unc with all processes that might diverge ( before doing anything else ) . |