Example sentences of "[conj] thus [verb] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theorists were adamant , though , and thus began the hunt for the ‘ missing mass ’ — unobserved dark stuff that would bring W up to 1 . |
| 2 | It facilitates the development of a sophisticated financial system and thus avoids the need for a pure cash economy , i.e. payment in notes and coin only . |
| 3 | Clearly , however , the disputed collectorship was creating an unusually good opportunity for the enemies of the Montrose interest to split that interest and thus prepare the way for an attack upon it on a future occasion . |
| 4 | This may result in lower capacity and thus increase the inability for TI and NCM to respond to the needs of their exporting policyholders . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Essentially , Weber 's essay sets out to show how the mediaeval cities in Western Europe sustained a fundamental challenge to the feudal system which surrounds them , and thus paved the way for the subsequent development of a rational-legal social order . |
| 7 | Althusser actually says that an ideal explanation would map out the relations between different factors down to and including individuals , and thus outlines a programme for a perfect social theory which would account for the parts played by individuals in social organisation and change . |
| 8 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British . |
| 9 | Membership of the European exchange rate mechanism is seen as the main constraint on all parties , holding back growth and thus reducing the scope for popular moves to cut taxes or increase public spending . |
| 10 | On July 9 a new city council of Milan was elected , replacing the council which had resigned in May [ see p. 38896 ] , and thus avoiding the need for new elections . |
| 11 | Some things need to be attended to very quickly because of the changed circumstances ; others , because they provide a refuge from ‘ thinking about things ’ , keep people occupied and thus leave no time for speculation or for unhappy thoughts to flood in . |
| 12 | Democracy within education has the potential to promote the active involvement of young disabled people in their own interests and thus provide a basis for the development of confidence and identity as disabled adults who will join the struggle for broader social change . |
| 13 | In the current absence of radiometric ages for the surface of Mars , Venus and Mercury , it is of considerable interest to see whether the graphs in Figure 8.1 can be applied to these other planets , possibly with modifications , and thus provide a basis for absolute age determination . |
| 14 | Whilst it is conceivable that some of these jobs will be craft based and thus provide an outlet for some initiative and self activism , the significant reality will be that they have no economic power and no industrial muscle . |
| 15 | ’ WEU could establish a link between a Europe in the process of unification and an Atlantic Alliance in the process of transformation and thus provide the vehicle for a stronger Europe to contribute more to joint security WEU must be at one and the same time the means of allowing Europe to make its voice heard in a Euro-American dialogue ’ — it must never be forgotten that Europe must always have an input into that dialogue — ’ of which the Atlantic Alliance is the institutional framework and the instrument for making the most of the European contribution to the defence of the West This contribution of Europe is the more essential in that the American military presence on the continent of Europe , reduced since the war in the Gulf , will remain below what it was in the past Defence policy should continue to be made in the organisations which assure collective defence , NATO , and WEU . |
| 16 | Do users of search — a significant sector of British industry — agree that most headhunting firms offer a professional and high-quality service , and thus see no need for the official regulation of the executive search industry ? |
| 17 | Parents and pressure groups representing parents , were concerned that Social Services Departments were to ready to end parental contact with children in care , and thus pave the way for adoption . |
| 18 | So , article one feudal exploitation by the landlord class shall be abolished and the system of peasant land ownership shall be introduced in order to set free the rural productive forces , develop agricultural production and thus pave the way for new China 's industrialization . |
| 19 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 20 | By implication , the Labour Party was seen as supporting unions , and thus having no respect for the rule of law . |
| 21 | As a first step in closing this gap , the study brings together into coherent order existing data on informal relationships in Britain , and thus provides a context for future research . |
| 22 | It maintains the sovereignty claims to the British Antarctic Territory and thus provides the basis for Britain 's prominent place in international decision-making on Antarctica . |