Example sentences of "and thus [verb] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For LDCs , economic growth should reduce their reliance on foreign aid and assistance and thus raise their self-esteem in the world community . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is CPRW 's view that consent for the Meadow House application would contradict existing local planning policies and thus undermine their credibility . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Hanns , when he joined in , ‘ did all the décor for the performances and designed costumes , handled the light and sound ( and fire ! ) effects ’ and thus presaged their cooperation on John 's first ballets . |
| 12 | This would enable parcels of instruments to be made up to a given value , type or maturity for sale and thus improve their marketability . |
| 13 | It would be misleading to profile school teachers as only seeking to maximize their own prestige by cultivating exaggerated interests in sport among black schoolkids and thus jeopardizing their chances academically . |
| 14 | The aim of this study is to determine the economic and political factors which cause prices and incomes controls to be imposed and to determine their effects on economic variables taking into acount the possibility that decision-makers make informed guesses about the probability of the onset of controls and thus alter their behaviour from what it would otherwise have been . |
| 15 | For this to happen , it was essential that the local variations did not interbreed and thus blend their characters back together again . |
| 16 | If the Bank restricts its Treasury Bill issue and sells longer-dated securities , this reduces the commercial banks ' cash reserves , and thus restricts their capability of expanding bank deposits . |