Example sentences of "thus [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such thus represents a focusing or narrowing of the type of metaphoric relation developed in Out . |
| 2 | The term thus represents a transfer of energy from the mean flow to the turbulence . |
| 3 | Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’ |
| 4 | It thus turns a model which is untestable , since no conceivable data could prove it wrong , into a testable one . |
| 5 | An interpretation of a provision of Community law thus involves a comparison of the different language versions . |
| 6 | Delegation thus involves a pattern of human relationships . |
| 7 | Biersteker , on Nigeria , argues that : ‘ Indigenization thus encourages a comprador role for local business in a society already plagued by strong comprador tendencies ’ ( 1987b , p.272 ) and that ‘ foreign capital has not been seriously threatened by the indigenization exercise ’ ( p.275 ) . |
| 8 | The edge of the pedestrianised zone thus displays a number of features of interest ( Figure 6.27 ) . |
| 9 | Only a few reports concerned the fate of oesophagitis , and then with relatively short follow up , although the typical patient is young or middle aged and thus has a life expectancy of several decades . |
| 10 | The manner in which libraries deal with the theses in their custody thus has a bearing on the uses to which the research contained in these works is put . |
| 11 | It thus has a value on the settlement day which is either zero or the difference between the current price of the stock minus the option 's exercise price , if that is positive . |
| 12 | Secondly , it is necessary to identify the leadership function which permeates all levels of the institution and thus develops a culture of creativity that discriminates between leadership and management , so enhancing both . |
| 13 | Science fiction thus illustrates a principle of all drama : it is a confrontation between normality and abnormality , security and insecurity , known and unknown , to be or not to be ! |
| 14 | The press in the late 19th century thus illustrates a point of transition from one set of dominant relationships to another . |
| 15 | Althusser actually says that an ideal explanation would map out the relations between different factors down to and including individuals , and thus outlines a programme for a perfect social theory which would account for the parts played by individuals in social organisation and change . |
| 16 | It thus affords a way in which the results of measurement can be associated with quantum mechanical observables : the possible results of measuring an observable are just the set of eigenvalues of the corresponding operator . |
| 17 | One thus gets a sequence of periods : 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , … , ∞ . |
| 18 | He thus diagnoses a crisis of legal ideology and democratic theory . |
| 19 | As a tribute to the old railway they have retained the platform edge , decorated it with flower urns , and it thus forms a feature of the site . |
| 20 | The rainbow thus forms a bridge between materialism and spirituality , between ignorance and intelligence , and the fable of ‘ the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow , grew from this ancient Indian source ; the pot of gold was originally symbolic of psychological liberation or ‘ enlightenment ’ . |
| 21 | The study of the mechanisms responsible for group structure at any one time thus requires a through-time or ‘ diachronic ’ perspective if the functional role of these mechanisms in relation to the overall reproductive strategies of individuals is to be perceived . |
| 22 | Long-term and self-sustaining development thus requires a country to become the master of its own science and technology , and not the servant of other people 's . |
| 23 | The principle of ability to pay thus reflects a concern about vertical equity . |
| 24 | The X-ray spectrometer thus directs a beam of X-rays at a crystal mounted on a turntable . |
| 25 | The novelist in search of character thus finds a fellow-worker in the painter . |
| 26 | There thus emerges a harem of juvenile females in association with the secondary male , but this male is as yet unable to mate with them because they are too young . |
| 27 | Thus speaks a man who has made his reputation in the pop genre . |
| 28 | The concept of the singular universal thus facilitates a circularity in the argument whereby Sartre can avoid the question which he began by posing . |
| 29 | His departure from nearby Long Eaton thus severs a rugby link that has helped to bring Nottingham to eminence from relative obscurity over the past 14 years . |
| 30 | The number of photons detected simultaneously ( ’ in coincidence ’ ) thus gives a measure of the correlation in polarisation ; indeed , Bell 's inequality can be written in terms of the number of photon pairs counted with both polarisers set first in the same direction , and then in different directions ( or vice versa ) . |