Example sentences of "thus [vb base] [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 We thus want to specify the flow in the ‘ wall-region ’ by a velocity scale characteristic of this region .
2 But he saw natural selection as less important than the Lamarckian mechanism in which self-improvements resulting from the individual 's response to environmental challenge are inherited and thus accumulate to change the species .
3 If , however , the Bank of England attempts to maintain an exchange rate below the equilibrium , it must continue to supply extra sterling to meet the shortfall and thus continue to expand the money supply .
4 With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them .
5 Politicians , however , were quite capable of making any assistance look somewhat larger than life and thus attempt to reap the last ounce of voter gratitude for their services .
6 Staleness can set in , so that one partner or both cease to be inventive , settle for the familiar and thus fail to move the partnership along .
7 Above that limit the bassoons begin to sound rather thin and thus fail to fulfil the desired object .
8 For the full-time housewife , in particular , standards and routines thus serve to keep the ‘ worker ’ employed .
9 Such councils might , conceivably , ‘ attract the interests of politically minded Africans and thus serve to diminish the demand for representation in a central Legislature by recourse to a system of electorates ’ .
10 Documentaries still seek the sensational and thus help to compound the fears of the public about mental handicap hospitals .
11 Such a development can only encourage participation in trades union councils and thus help to strengthen the entire movement at grass root level .
12 Life being what it is , unfortunately , our desires inevitably conflict , especially since we are social beings as well as individuals ( Richards invokes Bentham here ) , and thus have to consider the needs of others as well as our own .
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