Example sentences of "[pers pn] are thus [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 We are thus enabled to distinguish more easily the would-be functionalist 's explicans ( interactional structure ) from the explicandum ( language ) .
2 We are thus forced to identify unc with all processes that might diverge ( before doing anything else ) .
3 To the extent that they are thus led to perform well this is obviously desirable ; the problem is that , in attempting to avoid noticeable mistakes , they ignore the costs that must be borne by the public .
4 They are thus compelled to release their eggs while they are still high on the rock and a brown rain of spawn falls sporadically from as high as twenty feet .
5 They are thus forced to extend the area of cultivation on to land hitherto used by pastoralists for seasonal grazing .
6 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 .
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