Example sentences of "[coord] thus [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as men had at some remote date in the past surrendered some of their individual rights to a sovereign and thus created civil society , so now each State must surrender some of its sovereignty to a supranational authority . |
| 2 | On the one hand PHCNs should not adopt a superior attitude and thus alienate other nurses . |
| 3 | The liquid crystal molecules may adopt a random orientation when they are activated ( 2 ) and thus scatter light incident on the LC cell . |
| 4 | More than Dm300 million was set aside for future environmental protection measures , and stocks were valued according to the ‘ last in , first out ’ principle , which cuts out paper profit ( and thus reduces taxable profit ) when prices rise . |
| 5 | This creates grounds for closure of the less popular school and thus reduces educational provision in the more deprived area . |
| 6 | In crude terms improvements in accessibility brought about by the Channel Tunnel will reduce transport costs and thus make remoter regions more competitive . |
| 7 | It would have a repulsive gravitational effect , and thus make those regions expand in an inflationary manner . |
| 8 | In the updraughts of cliffs or when following boats out to sea they can fly with barely a movement of their wings and thus make ideal subjects for study ( Figure 7 ) . |
| 9 | For example , if there is an upsurge in consumer demand for credit , banks may be very keen to grant additional loans and thus make more profits , even though they have acquired no additional liquid assets . |
| 10 | Obviously , if a bus service is withdrawn the local authority can replace it with a subsidised service and thus fill any gap . |
| 11 | This gave the Germans a temporary advantage , but later on was the main cause which brought the US into the war and thus caused German defeat . ’ |
| 12 | Thirdly , European industrialisation and population growth in the 1800s encouraged cheap food imports and thus stimulated economic development in North America and elsewhere . |
| 13 | There is no reason why we should not lock our vehicles when we leave them and thus prevent that crime . |
| 14 | Various atmospheric gases trap infra-red radiation as it emanates from the Earth 's surface , and thus prevent excessive cooling when the sun is not shining . |
| 15 | And so , it some ways , it is : ‘ In any communication situation , the individual who can monopolize the communication is likely to have more power , and thus exert more influence . ’ |
| 16 | In the former case there were no restrictions and thus land changed hands at the full market price . |
| 17 | It had argued that adequate pension support for the elderly would encourage them to retire and thus increase younger workers ' employment prospects . |
| 18 | The provision is directed towards the bringing forward of development for which permission has been granted , and thus to enable new allocations of land for development to be made against a reasonably certain background of pending development . |
| 19 | Despite this progress the IAEA team was unable to obtain full details of the Iraqi nuclear weapons programme and thus to assess any potential for its revival . |
| 20 | Such an initiative might also attract investment capital from building societies and other lenders and thus assist Regional Health Authorities with their cash-flows . |
| 21 | Once that knowledge is gained , it can be used to explain events in the natural world , to make predictions about what will happen in the natural world , and thus to control that world and make it behave in ways that are , at least in theory , to the advantage of the controllers . |
| 22 | Early maturity also reduces male juvenile mortality and thus opposes adult mortality . |
| 23 | This method of repeatedly deploying a stretched string to plot the light rays and thus ascertain selected points on an image was incorporated into the perspective machines described by Leonardo and Dürer . |
| 24 | IHTA 1984 , s65(7) however provides that there will be no interim charge by reason only that the property ceases to be situated in the United Kingdom and thus becomes excluded property because of IHTA 1984 , s48(3) ( a ) . |
| 25 | Owing to the limited budget , Barbara urged caution on decision on grants which were phased over more than one year , and thus had financial implications for the future . |
| 26 | They began to use their holdings in different regions and countries for different but complementary roles within their respective international patterns of plants , and thus had systematic effects on the evolution of employment patterns in different kinds of country . |
| 27 | Either Kuzmitch was lying ( and defectors often do ) , or Blake was a very clever spy who , despite the temptation to confide in Kuzmitch and thus get better treatment , maintained his role as a long-term sleeper agent . |
| 28 | The invention in World War I of the Haber process — a method of making ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen — began the modern era of artificial fertilizers , and thus increased atmospheric pollution by compounds of nitrogen . |
| 29 | These can get into food or water , especially in countries with poor sanitary facilities , and thus infect other people . |
| 30 | Actual local authority completions in North Tyneside between 1974 and 1986 totalled 5473 , of which all but 639 were completed before 1981 and thus reflect pre-1979 capital programmes . |