Example sentences of "thus [v-ing] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10 March , receives support from the fieldsportsmen , the same people who in hunting counties , encourage foxes to bred in artificial earths , thus producing an increase in foxes which is a contributory factor in the decline of the hare ( being 20 per cent to 30 per cent of the rural foxes ' diet ) ! |
| 2 | A magic sprout from the mountains of Tibet is spun around a type of electronic roulette wheel , the unconscious yearnings of the citizenry acting as an invisible force on the brassica , thus producing an outcome in tune with the true needs of the community . |
| 3 | Enfield , Middlesex-based Data Connection Ltd announces that it has independently developed an implementation of IBM 's APPN network node software , thus becoming an alternate source for the software . |
| 4 | Miss Margaret Medlow ( now Mrs Johnston ) retired from the Superintendency of the Primary Sunday School , thus ending an association of over 50 years with the Sunday Schools . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , people in this latter group have decreased their consumption by 10 per cent , thus widening an important dietary difference between the social groups . |
| 6 | He went adrift by imagining that you could float in water head up and then duck your head under , thus displacing an extra quantity of water , which could be measured . |
| 7 | It creates reliability , thus meeting an important maintenance need of the system . |
| 8 | entered once for all into the Holy Place , taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood , thus securing an eternal redemption … |
| 9 | But they sandwich two orchestral pieces thus presenting an otherwise plausible ( though infrequent ) sort of concert outline ( Prokofiev , Gershwin , interval , Gershwin , Enescu ) exactly inside out . |
| 10 | Kaleidoscope thinking , then , involves taking an existing array of data , phenomena , or assumptions and being able to twist them , shake them , look at them upside down or from another angle or from a new direction — thus permitting an entirely new pattern and consequent set of actions to take place . |
| 11 | These rules do not bite where a claim is settled , thus providing an additional incentive to both sides to reach a private agreement . |
| 12 | The possibility that natural communities could be visualized in similar terms occurred to many biologists in the later decades of the century , thus providing an incentive to study the interactions upon which the whole network depended . |
| 13 | Perhaps too the future of systems , by focusing upon the mechanics of the system , will necessarily incorporate processes , man and change over time , and employ quantitative methods — thus providing an integration of the themes in the previous four chapters . |
| 14 | An early fourth-century building had been demolished to make way for the wall , thus providing an approximate date for its construction . |
| 15 | The aim of the study is to record , describe and analyse their perceptions and experience of the process of adoption thus providing an up-to-date picture of the consumer view . |
| 16 | To place a flat slab of stone across each angle of the square thus providing an octagonal basis . |
| 17 | Having provided the Franks with a Trojan origin , he stated that after the death of Francio they were ruled by duces , thus providing an explanation for the lack of a royal family , which so troubled Gregory , and creating space for a new dynasty of long-haired kings . |
| 18 | His great-grandson , Richard Gittins IV , married an heiress and added the lease of Castle Farm , thus amassing an estate of some 650 acres , the largest in the parish . |
| 19 | This can not vary rapidly with y without producing a very large mean acceleration and thus requiring an improbable mean flow distribution . |
| 20 | So he would , in fact , not quite kill his victim , thus committing an imperfect murder . |
| 21 | This led to a debate within the company as to whether the role of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was to demonstrate the sort of rooms ‘ Mr and Mrs Average ’ might own , decorated only to those standards to which they could aspire , or should it display exotically luxurious settings , thus attaining an often impossibly high level in taste and quality . |
| 22 | Judith Hughes , for example , puts forward a way of seeing autonomy ( and adulthood ) based primarily on the notion of responsibility rather than that of rationality , thus giving an ethical dimension to autonomy . |
| 23 | Beds representing marine invasions may contain marine shells or brackish water shells , thus giving an indication of local conditions . |
| 24 | Later , four more aisles were added , each terminating in a round apse , thus giving an east end with nine apses ( 238 ) . |
| 25 | In many cases , this association of boundaries with mills means either that the mills were in existence when the boundaries were defined ( thus indicating an increased number of Anglo-Saxon mill sites and a more extensive interference with river courses than we formerly thought ) , or that special arrangements were made to alter parish boundaries when new mills were built . |
| 26 | The variety at the surface is greatly increased by the excavation through impacts of different layers of accreted material , thus converting an initial vertical variation in composition into the horizontal variability observed . |
| 27 | ‘ I consider that ethically a human person is created when the sperm of a male fertilises the ovum of a woman , thus creating an embryo … either in the fallopian tubes or in vitro . |
| 28 | Information about the study is presented clearly and concisely , thus creating an ideal text for nurses new to evaluating research reports . |
| 29 | An exhibition can be viewed as a means of getting noticed and attracting publicity and contracts : as a rare chance of seeing a good deal of your recent work together and thus creating an opportunity for self-evaluation and an assessment of the way your work is developing ; and , by no means least , as a way of selling work . |
| 30 | The danger of this is that the fear of an award of damages against it would unduly encourage the authority to reach the same decision again , thus creating an appearance of bias . |