Example sentences of "[coord] thus [verb] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following from Donoghue v. Stevenson there have been a number of cases which have sought to apply the neighbour principle to different situations and thus broaden its scope . |
| 2 | These " Whiggish Jacobites " , as they referred to themselves , produced a number of pamphlets in which they argued that William , through various acts of despotism , had broken the contract he had made with the nation in 1689 , and thus forfeited his right to obedience . |
| 3 | Mere preservation , however , can lead eventually to decay and thus defeats its object . |
| 4 | Alternatively , are they likely to concentrate even more on the top end of the market , because their fees will rise pro rata with salaries and thus increase their fee income ? |
| 5 | One of the legends here is that a local authority inspector told a tenant that her furniture was too near the floor and thus rotting her carpet . |
| 6 | Green voters will ( it is suggested ) have given their second-preference votes to him , and thus secured his election . |
| 7 | A few miles further on , the eleven-year-old fell asleep in his saddle and Gloucester , unwilling to call a halt at that stage and thus delay their entry into London , insisted that he be conveyed the rest of the way in a horse-drawn litter . |
| 8 | ‘ The education you receive here , ’ he said at length , ‘ should equip you to realise your own powers and thus to serve your community to your utmost . |
| 9 | The fans still loved their idol , and Mitchum could now afford to relax and believe that his studio would not find itself forced to invoke the ‘ morals clause ’ and thus cancel his contract . |
| 10 | Of course , novelists have a license to invent their speech , and thus to heighten its qualities for dramatic impact , which is not granted to the journalist or sociologist . |
| 11 | For LDCs , economic growth should reduce their reliance on foreign aid and assistance and thus raise their self-esteem in the world community . |
| 12 | It provided a genuine incentive for the worker to intensify his labour and thus raise his productivity , a guarantee against slacking , an automatic device for reducing the wage-bill in times of depression , as well as a convenient method — by the cutting of piece-rates — to reduce labour costs and to prevent wages from rising higher than was thought necessary or proper . |
| 13 | In a large construction the silhouette of the ground floors , entrances , exits and more intimate areas can take precedence over the structure as a whole ( see ‘ Foveal and peripheral vision ’ ) and thus become its representative . |
| 14 | You can concentrate the detecting on to one single personality , and thus concentrate your reader 's attention equally . |
| 15 | They were , first , practical measures such as speed humps to make drivers aware of their speed and thus slow their vehicles ; second , a designed environment that conveys to the driver the fact that the area is one whose function is principally for living not travelling , with a consequent imparted feeling that awareness of soft traffic is imperative ; third , a legal change in priority , so that all occupants of the street space are equal ; and fourth , lest drivers are encouraged to view the new street layout as a challenge to driving skill rather than an encouragement of self-restraint and caution , a new regulation on car speeds . |
| 16 | He launched it on March 16th , the day he took office , and thus fulfilled his campaign promise to ‘ leave the right wing indignant and the left gasping . ’ |
| 17 | This often proves difficult , however , because of the way in which daily transactions between government and public affect bankers ' balances , causing banks to buy or sell bills to replenish their cash balances and thus to affect their yield . |
| 18 | It is CPRW 's view that consent for the Meadow House application would contradict existing local planning policies and thus undermine their credibility . |
| 19 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 20 | Consequently , they have an even greater need to neutralize the moral bind of the law and thus protect their respectability and self-identity from the signs of discreditability implicit in corporate crimes . |
| 21 | If the client 's competitors trade on terms which minimise their liability , the client may have to do likewise in order to obtain insurance cover as cheaply as possible , and thus keep its prices competitive . |
| 22 | For instance , a limitation or exclusion of liability could be justified by a preamble or postscript to the clause explaining that its purpose is to limit liability so as to enable the person protected by it to obtain insurance cover , and thus keep its costs down : In order to enable the Seller to insure against its liability under this contract , the Seller 's liability in respect of any defect in the goods or any loss caused by such defect is limited to £n ; the Buyer must bear the risk of any loss in excess of £n and should insure against such loss . |
| 23 | They are , however , far more malicious in their intentions , and wilfully frustrate miners by causing rockfalls and accidents , cutting ropes or extinguishing lamps and thus stymieing their labours . |
| 24 | In short , Storr 's latter-day fame rests upon two particulars : first , that he was fortunate in working alongside some of the most talented artists , designers , and craftsmen of his time ; and second , that the bulk of Rundell , Bridge & Rundell 's productions in silver during the years of their greatest success were made under his ( Storr & Co. 's ) management and thus bear his mark . |
| 25 | Given the significance of patronage in securing a promotion , or in placing an officer in a situation where he might have an opportunity to distinguish himself , and thus strengthen his claims to advancement , there was a good incentive to arrange for a transfer to another ship where favour might be expected . |
| 26 | The question was whether supporting the teacher on this basis might lead to the required change in his attitude , help him to see the situation in a new light , and thus affect his perception of the problem . |
| 27 | There was the case of an Essex player who smeared Vaseline from his eyebrows on to the ball and thus altered its flight . |
| 28 | He said that the new ‘ learning for work scheme ’ — intended to provide opportunities for the unemployed to pursue vocationally relevant full-time courses of education , with fees paid and an allowance equivalent to their benefit entitlement for up to a year — gave another opportunity for the longer-term unemployed to take up training opportunities and thus to increase their chances of finding employment . |
| 29 | The projects ' objectives are to provide an account of the social processes by which labour demands are generated , jobs formulated , personnel specifications developed and employees recruited and selected , and thus to increase our understanding of the ways in which people and jobs are matched in the labour market . |
| 30 | The League had little alternative but to disband and thus allow its members to continue their campaign within the Labour Party as individuals . |