Example sentences of "thus [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advertisement for the video equivalent of the Mills and Boon novel declares : ‘ Because they 're a branded series , your customers will see one and keep coming back for more ( it may be a new concept in video , but publishers like IPC and Mills and Boon have been doing very nicely on it for years ) ’ ; thus heralding a new departure for the form . |
| 2 | In order to put this over sympathetically to consumers , the Central Authority issued a directive enforcing it on Area Boards : thus underlining the absolute necessity for this increase . |
| 3 | Today we take on Northtown , who beat us 4–2 back in October , thus denting our then red-hot title hopes . |
| 4 | Ramos , a Protestant , was criticized on Feb. 18 by the influential ( Catholic ) Archbishop of Manila , Cardinal Jaime Sin , who attacked him as a former Marcos stooge and expressed his preference for Mitra , thus denting Ramos ' dwindling support within the LDP . |
| 5 | Denial of oil exports to Iran was conceived both as a means of rendering that country harder to govern , thus denting the morale of its leadership , and as retaliation for the severance of Iraq 's own crude export systems by Iran . |
| 6 | In their anxiety to eliminate sinful love they presented lovers as relatives , thus transforming the boring Hollywood sex code into a frolic of perversions . |
| 7 | Faced with unpopular cuts , the government increased central control while leaving much of the responsibility for making the cuts to local government , thus fragmenting opposition ( Flynn , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | Chandra Shekhar 's minority government rested on the support of Congress — support which Mr Gandhi then chose to withdraw , thus bringing about the present election . |
| 9 | The government was lavishing money on roads instead of railways and the developers were cashing in on a projected ‘ up-grading ’ of the existing A road to a motorway , thus bringing Suffolk into the commuter zone . |
| 10 | In addition , exercise does help to control the appetite so it may help you to reduce your intake — thus bringing about a weight loss in an indirect way . |
| 11 | A smack terminates the child 's naughty behaviour , thus bringing relief to the harassed parent . |
| 12 | A substance , histamine , is produced by injured cells ; it causes capillaries in the area to dilate thus bringing greatly increased amounts of blood to the site of injury . |
| 13 | The new money — most cherished of all currency in scientific finance — amounts to some $600 million , thus bringing the grand total to $6600 million . |
| 14 | The European settlers gradually increased in numbers and additionally brought over slaves from the Guinea Coast thus bringing pressure to bear on the already sparse natural vegetation . |
| 15 | By having Alexander lessons an individual would be able to learn how to sit , stand or pick objects up so that they do not put so much strain on the back muscles , thus bringing instant relief to their back . |
| 16 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 17 | The plan had one drawback : the advancing Germans would violate Belgian and Dutch neutrality , guaranteed by Great Britain , Austria , France , Germany and Russia , thus bringing Great Britain into the war on the Allied side . |
| 18 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 19 | As the period wore on , leadership became increasingly associated with personal qualities and skills which earned nobility , thus bringing renown to the man blessed with them . |
| 20 | While the main west-to-east movement in the occupation of Siberia was accomplished by the first half of the eighteenth century , the frontiers of the Russian Empire continued to be pushed forward in various directions , thus bringing more peoples under its control . |
| 21 | Whilst this decision has been criticised as a " narrow " interpretation of the law ( ibid ) , our examination of the nature of casual working and the characteristics of the casual labour force in the hotels and catering sector raises the question of whether according casual workers employee status , and thus bringing them within the coverage of employment protection legislation , would be of any great relevance . |
| 22 | Into that stream of pure gothic fiction there was eventually added the element of crime or suspected crime , thus bringing into existence the romantic suspense novel . |
| 23 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 24 | In 1836 Gossage devised a method of absorbing the acid gas in which a steady stream of water descending a tower ( the ‘ Gossage tower ’ ) containing twigs , bracken , and bricks , came in contact with a steady stream of the gas ascending the tower , so dissolving it and thus bringing the dangerous nuisance under a high degree of control . |
| 25 | The greatest authority in electrical science was A. M. Ampère , who had devised equations to account for the discoveries of Oersted and others , and was thus bringing electromagnetism within the realm of applied mathematics . |
| 26 | He painted not the general , but the particular ; not the nude , but the naked , thus bringing sex back in an especially embarrassing way . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | At the sixth round of Premiers ' talks held in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Feb. 19-20 , Premier Yon Hyong Muk of North Korea and Prime Minister Chung Won Shik of South Korea , formally exchanged signed copies of the Agreement on Reconciliation , Non-aggression and Co-operation between the South and the North and the Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula , thus bringing into effect the terms of the two accords which had been reached in talks between the two sides in December 1991 [ see pp. 38659-60 ] . |
| 29 | Hyacinth , happily unused to the ways of the more unscrupulous telly interviewer , promptly stuck a roll of paper she had been carrying into the broadcaster 's eye , thus bringing the proceedings to a close . |
| 30 | As an interesting footnote to the story , after their part in the operation , the two gallant ferries were both given the prefix ‘ Royal ’ by King George V. In 1933 , New Medway Steam Packet Co bought Royal Daffodil and three years later , General Steam bought out NMSP Co , thus bringing the heroic vessel into the P&O fleet . |