Example sentences of "thus [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More immediately , it was very good to see the Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia and Hungary , and the acting Prime Minister of Poland , in Brussels on Monday , signing the association agreements between those countries and the Community and thus bringing to fruition an initiative begun by my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 2 | By contrast , those more oriented to hierarchy will handle organizational change ‘ by reallocating resources to new activities as opportunities arise ’ ( see also Kagono et al. , 1985 : 57–87 ) , thus contributing to differentiation and further specialization . |
| 3 | Thus according to David Wilson , ‘ it is a film rooted in personal memory but transcending it ’ . |
| 4 | Thus according to Waller ( 1983 , p. 136 ) : |
| 5 | He does not mention the fact that the police banned the parade from the city centre , thus testing to destruction the resolve of the radicals to confront them . |
| 6 | An irreducible hernia may strangulate , i.e. the contents of the sac of the hernia may be constricted so that the circulation is cut off thus leading to gangrene and eventually perforation of the bowel ( a surgical emergency ) . |