Example sentences of "thus [vb pp] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The writers that men have been reading recently ( Nicholson Baker is a prime example ) , on the other hand , ask us to participate in their creation and observation ; we are invited to share the joke , and thus made to feel important . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This leads to a neglect of conservation management … the soil conservation expert is thus requested to propose technical and educational solutions to socio-political problems , whilst the sociologist is given the task of obtaining the approval of the population for measures taken without its advice and real consent . |
| 5 | Any attempt to use the scriptures to vindicate the slave trade was thus bound to provoke energetic efforts by abolitionists to controvert the arguments ; failure to do so would have yielded an authority to the pro-slave trade position by sacrificing one of the main ways religious reformers had of grasping the essential spirit of the Christian moral order . |
| 6 | The government has thus attempted to restrict local authority discretion by reducing the level of income received from the central government via cuts in the RSG and through rate capping . |
| 7 | The bourgeois family model with its breadwinning husband and dependent wife and children was thus believed to secure male work incentives . |
| 8 | The Independent Labour Party was thus forced to accept full responsibility for continuing the dispute . |
| 9 | She maintained that bad headhunting practice was thus allowed to continue unchecked . |
| 10 | 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 . |