Example sentences of "thus [vb base] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Males thus tend to maximize their reproductive success by attracting and mating with several females and establishing them in nests in their territories . |
| 2 | Unsupported ideas thus tend to lend themselves to easy dismissal , or to non-citation ( which is a form of editorial comment ) . |
| 3 | Our society has tended to place women in a subservient relationship to men and some women find themselves drawn towards dominant or dependent partners and thus fail to assert their own needs as individuals . |
| 4 | The ghosts conjured up by the concept of existence thus reappear to haunt us . |
| 5 | Campbell suggests that this is due to their own recognition , as vulnerable women , of the problem of male violence and thus wish to have it controlled . |
| 6 | We thus have to begin our examination of local politics in a restructured Britain , at a time when there were supposedly no local politics . |
| 7 | Engineers thus need to explain their role to encourage a more positive view of the profession . |