Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Population growth , the need for foreign currency earnings , and foreign aid have , in the past three or four decades , stimulated agricultural development in developing nations and have thus prompted environmental change . |
| 2 | ‘ How 's Angharad ? ’ asked Betty , who had , last night , discussed at length with Elizabeth the problems and frustrations of bringing up a defective child and felt thus freed to go on talking about it . |
| 3 | The Book issued in 1558 had given fairly realistic values and had thus helped to increase the revenue ; thence forward the values remained almost unchanged until the reign of James I. Nominal duties of 5 per cent had gradually been eroded to something less than 3 per cent . |
| 4 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |
| 5 | Each has its own advantages and disadvantages and have thus found their own areas of application . |
| 6 | The principles and advances thus established on behalf of individual litigants and at their prompting redounded to the benefit of the king , not least when his own servants were suing other clergy and patrons for possession of benefices to which the king had presented them ; in particular the livings affected by the new pluralism laws would be likely subjects of such writs . |
| 7 | Multiple nuclei describes a big city that has expanded and absorbed small towns and villages and has thus created outlying service areas . |
| 8 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 9 | CACI have identified 2380 areas of concentrated retail activity and have thus created a comprehensive picture of retailing in Great Britain . |
| 10 | He had in fact saved the lands and life of Sir Thomas , who was charged with supplying money to Margaret of Anjou during the Wars of the Roses and had thus infuriated the king . |
| 11 | Instead , he rationalized his thoughts and justified himself Adam probably — indeed , almost certainly — knew nothing about the find in the pine wood , but Adam had once owned the house and had thus taken on a responsibility . |