Example sentences of "they [modal v] thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corporations are also the development-control authority for the designated area , so they may thus determine planning applications made to them or deem themselves planning permission by resolution . |
| 2 | They may thus find ways to get round the controls . |
| 3 | They may thus account for observable clinical manifestations . |
| 4 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 5 | From the 1760s , moreover , some of the British secretaries of embassy in Paris and Madrid were also accredited as minister plenipotentiary : they could thus carry on the business of the mission quite effectively in the absence of its head . |
| 6 | They could thus create , ostensibly in defence of their rights , islands of lawlessness in which criminals could take sanctuary and defy the forces of law and order . |
| 7 | They could thus prevent any group of workers going off and setting up their own workshop in competition to the merchant and capitalist class . |
| 8 | they would thus avoid tariffs normally charged on cheaper ‘ dollar ’ bananas . |
| 9 | The POFs were then to acquire shares in enterprises which were being privatized ; together with the recently created State Ownership Fund ( SOF ) , they would thus form the basis for the mass privatization scheme , which was intended to involve the sale of some 6,200 companies over the next seven years . |
| 10 | They would thus have reproduced themselves and multiplied . |
| 11 | If they accept a contractual obligation to provide care , they may find that voluntary sector care increasingly substitutes for services which otherwise would have been provided by statutory agencies ; they will thus become mainstream rather than supplying supplemental , additional services . |
| 12 | Fewer pupils will attend the schools and they will thus have fewer teachers . |
| 13 | They can thus avoid the costs of variety and added risk in a volatile market . |
| 14 | They can thus form an expectation of p ( ) t conditional on the information that they have at the end of period t - 1 . |
| 15 | At the same time , they are always heard in relation to the basic framework or expected effect which lies behind them and which they are varying : they are substitutes for the ‘ correct ’ formulae ; they can thus excite but not disturb . |
| 16 | For example , in art , pupils have to hand in work to be assessed throughout the course , and they can thus accumulate a varied and impressive portfolio as part of their examination achievement . |