Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] and thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About three-quarters of the judges are educated at public schools and Oxford or Cambridge , but there are also other factors that reinforce their exclusiveness : their socialization into the legal life via their training as barristers ( that is those entitled to appear in the higher courts ) and the need to demonstrate professional competence in order to ‘ take silk ’ , that is become a Queen 's Counsel and thus gain themselves a place among the elite of barristers from whom judges are chosen . |
| 2 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 3 | The desire to ingratiate a way into the listener 's consciousness and thus inveigle an all-important content is the reason all these groups draw inspiration from Sinatra , Bacharach and David , Sondheim , Steely Dan , early seventies ' soul , to produce slick , crafted , sophisticated pop . |
| 4 | On Oct. 30 a controversial measure giving blanket immunity to anyone who had committed a politically motivated crime before Oct. 8 , 1990 [ see p. 39037 ] was approved by the President 's Council and thus became law , despite its having been rejected on Oct. 20 by the House of Delegates , the Indian chamber of the tricameral parliament . |
| 5 | Decisions therefore can be influenced by these active movements , e.g. greens , peace , and feminists , which highlight issues and capture the public 's attention and thus bring pressure to bear on the government during inter-electoral periods . |
| 6 | Nominated by his dying brother as Lord High Protector of the realm during the boy king 's minority , he had just returned from Scotland where , at the head of a powerful army , he had re-taken Berwick in his brother 's name and thus nullified the Scottish King 's threat of a full-scale invasion . |
| 7 | In order to meet the IMF 's requirements and thus ensure $350 million in stand-by credits and another billion dollars in European Community funds , Mr Nemeth intends to slash the huge budget deficit from around 50 billion forints ( £500 million ) to 10 billion . |
| 8 | Civilian users can not decipher as much information from the satellites ' signals and thus get fixes that are less precise . |
| 9 | She felt that their use ‘ would elongate the dancers ' silhouettes and thus resemble the figures of Byzantine Saints ’ . |
| 10 | Citizens ' Advice Bureaux can also put compulsive spenders in touch with debt counsellors , who are able to assess their clients ' finances and thus establish an escape from what can feel like a financial swamp . |
| 11 | C.N.L. have , theoretically , one other alternative : they could at this late stage , without benefit of the P.C.A. documents , mount their own unaided inquiry into the police officers ' conduct and thus seek independently to obtain all the same evidence that the P.C.A. so painstakingly uncovered some three years ago . |
| 12 | The only oddity is that the debt does not yet exist , and will only arise if the beneficiary enters Gaius Seius ' estate and thus becomes liable to pay the testator a sum of money . |