Example sentences of "thus [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was very self-conscious imitation , as is proved by the peculiarities of some epigrams which celebrate the family 's achievements : a surviving pair commemorates the Persian victories in the strange order Salamis-Marathon ; it was perhaps Kimon himself who thus sought to remain Athenians , in verse , of his father 's great battle , just as painters were to remind them of it by their Marathon in the Painted Stoa built in the middle of the fifth century : Oinoe , a deme close to Marathon , was the title of one of the subsidiary hoplite engagements depicted . |
| 2 | This age-related assessment is thus intended to complement the usual assessment procedures of a school . |
| 3 | The issuance of multiple copies was thus intended to assure that the consignee received at least one . |
| 4 | It was thus intended to have a much wider appeal than the old Catholic Centre Party , which gradually faded away after the war . |
| 5 | The essential point , moreover , is that the ‘ Hooligan ’ style was recognisable to their contemporaries ( and presumably to themselves ) as a distinctive mode of attire , thus helping to form the feeling which was struggling to give itself expression in other areas , that too much freedom and affluence had been given to the working class at the turn of the century . |
| 6 | She would have burned up extra calories , thus helping to speed her weight loss still more . |
| 7 | For example , they may frequently be given a role in maintaining employment and thus helping to preserve the political accommodations between classes upon which a successful response to the crisis depends ; this may conflict with their central role in the restructuring of industries in crisis . |
| 8 | It is the more-educated people who most use complementary medicine , thus helping to dispel the idea that it is ‘ unscientific ’ and used only by the uncritical ; and about 10 per cent of clients going to complementary practitioners are referred by doctors or paramedics . |
| 9 | The storms may have improved the wildlife importance of some woods , by breaking the canopy and giving better light conditions , thus helping to improve ground flora and regeneration , and by presenting foresters with a chance to vary the structure of woodland — for example , by introducing a wider range of species in more woods , or by phased regeneration over several decades . |
| 10 | For instance , a scheme ( devised by Meade ) to alter social insurance contributions according to the state of the economy , so they rose in a boom and fell in a slump , thus helping to stabilise purchasing power , was mentioned to Beveridge . |
| 11 | On the high points where the tree clumps are mostly situated , conditions may well be specially favourable for regenerated trees to survive to full maturity , thus helping to ensure the continuation of the position and form of the clump . |
| 12 | The library at Lichfield contains fine books and manuscripts and is in regular use ( although the Anglo-Saxon Lichfield Gospels are actually on display downstairs in the Chapter house ) , and access to the floor will necessarily remain limited , thus helping to ensure its continuing survival . |
| 13 | The fluid produced by the sanitizer contains a scale inhibitor to prevent the build up of encrusted deposits , a cleaning agent to help keep surfaces clean ( thus helping to prevent bacterial adhesion ) , and the regular dosing of the fluid ensures the maintenance of sanitary conditions , even in areas of heavy use . |
| 14 | The spectrometer can also show absorption at specific wavelengths by the dust itself , thus helping to unravel the mystery of the dust 's composition . |
| 15 | The policy document suggested here could also be of use in this regard , by facilitating local discussion and thus helping to keep the development effort in line with the wishes and aspirations of the people . |
| 16 | Your personal experience of relationships and interaction with others can be enhanced and built upon in a constructive way , thus helping to inspire both personal confidence and a learning environment where you will not be inhibited from admitting to a lack of knowledge or understanding . |
| 17 | This can then be compared to the isotopic composition of the material in nature , thus helping to determine the origin of the object . |
| 18 | As one of the few major acoustic companies who are n't trying to emulate anyone else , Lowden 's guitars have great strength of character and thus tend to polarise guitarists into two camps : those who utterly adore them , and those who are left dry-eyed and unmoved . |
| 19 | The former makes the point that genetically engineered bacteria tend to be much less viable than their naturally occurring counterparts and thus tend to die off rapidly . |
| 20 | The electrons and ions thus tend to co-rotate , that is , to have sidereal orbital periods equal to the planet 's sidereal axial period . |
| 21 | Formal studies of code switching thus tend to deal with idealised or edited data , to which syntactic theories are applied : e.g. Phrase Structure Grammar ( Joshi 1985 ) ; Government and Binding ( Di Sciullo et al. |
| 22 | Males thus tend to maximize their reproductive success by attracting and mating with several females and establishing them in nests in their territories . |
| 23 | Naturally those anthropologists who grant culture such imperative force tend to see social relations as the product of cultural patterning and conditioning , and thus tend to concentrate on child-rearing practices , enculturation , and socialization . |
| 24 | We thus tend to think of ourselves as machines , and when things go wrong treatment is organized along similar lines as it is for our machines — servicing , repairing and patching as dictated by the appearance of aches , pains and loss of function . |
| 25 | Unsupported ideas thus tend to lend themselves to easy dismissal , or to non-citation ( which is a form of editorial comment ) . |
| 26 | Females thus tend to groom those nearest to them and immediately above them in rank . |
| 27 | A free , contractual basis for labour thus pointed to progress and prosperity . |
| 28 | Green 's memorandum reflected the WEA 's dissatisfaction with its original 1932 representation on the RAC in that although the District was recognised by the Board of Education as the most important providing body for Chapter III courses in the region , it had less than 25% of the committee 's membership which thus failed to recognise the WEA 's national or regional status . |
| 29 | They were constructed for human interpretation and they are thus designed to provide verbal explanations and translations of words , rather than the morphological , syntactic and semantic data required by NLP lexicons . |
| 30 | Corporate strategy in manufacturing thus has to take into account the fact that organizations that are able rapidly to adapt to change have a competitive advantage in the face of changing technology and volatile product markets . |