Example sentences of "thus [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This age-related assessment is thus intended to complement the usual assessment procedures of a school . |
| 2 | The addition of an associative procedure to this modeller was thus seen to provide the Possibility of a truly automated kinematic assembly process . |
| 3 | Deer , which were hunted by the rich therefore came to be associated with affluence ; and the peony , which was cultivated in the gardens of the nobility , was thus seen to symbolize the rank , wealth and well-being that accompanied this station in life . |
| 4 | Adopting this pragmatic approach , I have thus sought to justify the main general conclusion to which my whole argument has been directed : that the way to heal the rift between holism and individualism is to recognise that concessive holism offers a superior approach to the business of social explanation . |
| 5 | The mean accident estimate was thus used to split the data into the ‘ junctions with the highest accident estimates and the 23 with the lowest ( 3 junctions with the median score of 2.3 were not included in this analysis ) . |
| 6 | Unemployment thus helped to shape the politics of the age , and some political changes were clearly the result of the problems it raised , although long-term social changes were clearly evident in permitting the Labour Party to replace the Liberal Party as the progressive party of British politics . |
| 7 | There was also alarm about the practice of " occasional conformity " ( whereby Nonconformists were able to evade the provisions of the Test and Corporation Acts and qualify themselves for civil office through the occasional attendance at Anglican communion ) and the growth of Dissenting academies ( which trained future generations of Nonconformist ministers and thus helped to perpetuate the religious schism ) . |
| 8 | Corporate taxation policies for example , have greatly favoured capital intensive firms and thus helped to widen the productivity gap between large and small companies . |
| 9 | Spencer 's emphasis on the struggle against the environment as the driving force of progress thus helped to create the popular image of ‘ Darwinism ’ . |
| 10 | The Book issued in 1558 had given fairly realistic values and had thus helped to increase the revenue ; thence forward the values remained almost unchanged until the reign of James I. Nominal duties of 5 per cent had gradually been eroded to something less than 3 per cent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The scheming phase is thus employed to refine the elements being detailed ; studies on cost effectiveness can be conducted and alternative schemes evaluated . |
| 13 | The Act thus attempted to control the admissibility of such evidence in the courtroom for reasons not only for its biasing effects upon a jury , but also for subsequent press coverage , which is often based on courtroom interaction . |
| 14 | Makarenko was thus driven to take the law into his own hands in order to survive , but his pupils needed no encouragement in this respect , since they themselves were the product of a disturbed society . |
| 15 | The Security Treaty , with its underlying motive of making Japan a strong ally in the Pacific area , has thus served to reinforce the close ties with the US that were forged during the Occupation period . |
| 16 | They are thus forced to extend the area of cultivation on to land hitherto used by pastoralists for seasonal grazing . |
| 17 | Willy-nilly one is thus forced to extend the reductivist argument and adopt the position of what has become known as the " redundancy theory of truth " . |
| 18 | The proud Count of Barcelona was thus forced to recognize the abilities of the man whose service he had once refused . |
| 19 | However , when subsequently he became employed solely by an audit firm established in Germany , and thus ceased to fulfil the conditions described above , his authorisation to practise in Luxembourg was cancelled . |
| 20 | But to many of his contemporaries , adaptation was not the central problem , and natural selection thus failed to answer the questions that were uppermost in their minds . |
| 21 | However , the SPD ( which was to decide in mid-November on whether to support amendment of the Basic Law as proposed in August 1992 — see p. 39066 ) boycotted the vote and the motion thus failed to win the required two-thirds majority of members . |
| 22 | Another mechanism by which the amount of repressor can be kept low in the nucleus involves the possibility that the repressor be confined in the cytoplasm ; we were thus prompted to test the nucleo-cytoplasmic ripartition of the X binding activity in Raji and RJ2.2.5 . |