Example sentences of "[conj] thus [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly it belongs to John Major himself , for taking to the hustings , and restoring , a cutting edge to the party dialogue — and thus taking the Central Office by the scruff of the neck and lifting it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk . |
| 2 | After the Second World War — during which time Fred served as a Special in the Metropolitan Police and later in the Royal Artillery — he put in another 111 League appearances and thus became the only Palace player to make a century of appearances on each side of the war . |
| 3 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 4 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 5 | Its populace formed the nucleus of the mob that attacked the Bastille ( July 1789 ) , and thus began the French Revolution . |
| 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 | President Truman and his advisers were anxious over Sino-Soviet relations and wondered whether American forces could take the port of Dairen and thus prevent the Soviet Union from occupying the Liaotung peninsula of south Manchuria . |
| 8 | The effect of the document , it was held , was to prevent the sale being a sale by description and thus exclude the implied condition in s13 of the SGA 1979 . |
| 9 | But what really bugs our Sharon is that they dare to show any football at all and thus interrupt the daily stream of soap sludge . |
| 10 | The density of CO2 at s.t.p. is thus given by It should be noted that the calculation is based on the assumptions that ( a ) CO2 obeys Avogadro 's law at s.t.p. and ( b ) CO2 is an ideal gas and thus obeys the ideal gas equation . |
| 11 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 12 | In 1836 Gossage devised a method of absorbing the acid gas in which a steady stream of water descending a tower ( the ‘ Gossage tower ’ ) containing twigs , bracken , and bricks , came in contact with a steady stream of the gas ascending the tower , so dissolving it and thus bringing the dangerous nuisance under a high degree of control . |
| 13 | In this reply the United States undertook to take certain action at the request of either or both of the parties in the event of an actual or threatened violation of the agreement , and thus guaranteed the continued observance of the Peace Treaty . |
| 14 | Their main significance is that by predicating the breach on damage to the interests of creditors and thus expanding the corporate constituency it no longer automatically follows that the breach should be ratifiable by the shareholders . |
| 15 | The buyer was going to re-sell the goods and it was recognised that the buyer 's sub-purchaser would test the weight and thus ascertain the precise sum to be paid to the seller . |
| 16 | On March 9 , the day before the first session of the new Assembly , President Paul Biya held talks with MDR leader Dakole Diassala , reportedly in an attempt to secure the MDR 's support for the RPDC , and thus to give the ruling party an absolute majority in the Assembly . |
| 17 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 18 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 19 | In an attack on all computer book publishers ( including themselves ) , they see the scramble to publish books on every piece of newly released software as resulting in shelves full of regurgitated documentation — modified either for the novice or the power user and thus leaving the average user with intermediate skills out in the cold . |
| 20 | But in many societies the position is exactly reversed ; homicide invites private reprisal , while many types of sexual offence lead to public punishment because they are regarded as sins which generate a condition of ritual pollution and thus endanger the whole community . |
| 21 | For the fourth successive year they have won the South Yorkshire Area Institute of Bankers pop quiz — and thus remain the only winner of the competition since it was launched in 1990 . |
| 22 | By laying their eggs in small strips or bundles attached to vegetation , spadefoots ensure that each individual egg is , as far as possible , surrounded by water and thus receives the maximum supply of available oxygen . |
| 23 | Moreover , since roubles are inconvertible , the National Bank has been obliged to issue dinars to Yugoslav exporters in exchange for blocked roubles , and thus to increase the domestic money supply . |
| 24 | He maintained the IFA 's statement resulted from its desire to speed up court cases pending against IBM and used the tired old argument about local opposition blocking further investment and thus hurting the local economy : ‘ Irish Base Metals are working with a major oil company and we have to convince them that Ireland and Galway are good places for investment . |
| 25 | Why risk the possibility that the invariably expensive instrument may be ‘ not quite what you wanted ’ , and thus face the steep depreciation between brand-new to second-hand common to all custom-built guitars , when modern ‘ copy ’ guitars are so good and so cheap ? |
| 26 | Reduce the average branching factor by keeping the number of arcs spanning n(1,2) , n(2,3) , and n(3,4) low and thus limit the combinatorial explosion of paths . |
| 27 | From the random individual variation existing within any population , the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ would pick out those with useful characters and thus intensify the adaptive feature in each generation . |
| 28 | Local authorities claim that investment is needed not only to build new homes and replace dilapidated housing , but also to renovate deteriorating buildings , and thus improve the existing housing stock . |
| 29 | Well initially the United States genuinely believed that with a small force , perhaps about a hundred thousand , maybe two hundred thousand troops , but principally using air power , that they could prevent the North Vietnamese from helping the Vietcong in the south and thus continuing the civil war . |
| 30 | Well initially the United States genuinely believed that with a small force , perhaps about a hundred thousand , maybe two hundred thousand troops , but principally using air power , that they could prevent the North Vietnamese from helping the Vietcong in the south and thus continuing the civil war . |