Example sentences of "thus [be] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial institutions have thus been encouraged to move into new areas of business , but at the same time have been regulated on a more formal basis than before . |
| 2 | Historians who have looked at the impact of the Origin of Species have thus been encouraged to assume that Darwin 's introduction of the selection mechanism represented the decisive factor in the conversion of the scientific community to evolutionism . |
| 3 | Such procedures of space definition can thus be employed to search for or specify general or specific relationships between associating spaces . |
| 4 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |
| 5 | Ideas concerning human nature can thus be said to constitute a human universal . |
| 6 | Consent may thus be said to require not merely a knowledge of the physical facts of sexual intercourse but some elementary appreciation of the significance of the act in its biological , social and moral context . |
| 7 | The most wanton of his foreign exploits could thus be said to have been conceived , misguidedly , as an act of self-defence . |
| 8 | The exceptions , which have some form of developed street network , a more diverse range of buildings and perhaps even a central core , clearly stand out from the pack on current evidence , and they can thus be seen to compare most favourably with the urban patterns recognizable within the major towns and cities of the province . |
| 9 | That case can thus be seen to proceed on the same basis as the colore officii cases . |
| 10 | It can thus be seen to stand as the architectural counterpart to the other key artistic expressions of the age , the panoramic canvases of John Martin , Edward John Poynter , and Lawrence Alma-Tadema , toweringly romantic and imaginative recreations of the temples , palaces , baths , and amphitheatres of the ancient world , and the novels of Walter Scott , Harrison Ainsworth , and Bulwer-Lytton which evoked a monumental and teeming past of medieval castles , Tudor mansions , and unbridled Gothic imagination . |
| 11 | The cultural baggage which any social group , tribe , or institution such as the police acquires over time can thus be translated to reveal just what sustains it , and furthermore reveal what the society itself may not even have understood . |
| 12 | Although industrialists were reported to have reacted with guarded optimism to the plan , many independent economists were agreed that the revenue increases would not cover all projected government spending , and that the government would thus be compelled to delay payments , including those on foreign debt service . |
| 13 | These terminal nodes can thus be configured to perform the specific set of activities they are required to carry out , allowing the arrangement of geometry-generating workstations to handle and manipulate increasingly large graphical models . |
| 14 | During swimming the young may press its flipper against her side and thus be helped to move with her . |
| 15 | An intersection can thus be established to exist between the cylinder of the pin and the surface of the block within the bounds of the intersection domain . |
| 16 | However , at the other end of the scale these relations may complement each other , and thus be used to explain the stability of a particular form of social organisation . |
| 17 | The pendulum can thus be used to answer yes/no type questions . |
| 18 | It cam thus be used to monitor the effects of treatment . |
| 19 | This approach can thus be used to define the functional attributes of the geometric domains . |
| 20 | Rival visual boxes in a painting , building or landscape can thus be used to suggest spaciousness . |
| 21 | This morphogen concentration gradient can thus be used to determine the position of the cells . |
| 22 | Again , in order to preserve the assumption of relevance , an inference must be made about who is to do what : since the last mention of someone doing something involved B going to A , that is presumably what A intends , and may thus be taken to have meant . |
| 23 | We have seen that the difficulty of obtaining the gratuitous services of suitable persons to act as trustees has necessarily led to the practice of reposing an ever wider range of discretion in those who can only thus be persuaded to act . |
| 24 | The magnitude of the overt CR will depend on the interaction of these two forms of learning and can thus be expected to diminish as the contribution of the latter increases . |
| 25 | A simple measure of breakage can thus be expected to differentiate these major groups of predator . |
| 26 | Viscount Lewisham was thus being asked to comment on a distasteful message from the colonies about seven hours before he would receive it . |
| 27 | Mr Klesch is thus being asked to step in as the disinterested negotiator . |
| 28 | A typical European family of four is thus being forced to pay almost £1,000 per year , or above £18 per week . |