Example sentences of "thus [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advertisement for the video equivalent of the Mills and Boon novel declares : ‘ Because they 're a branded series , your customers will see one and keep coming back for more ( it may be a new concept in video , but publishers like IPC and Mills and Boon have been doing very nicely on it for years ) ’ ; thus heralding a new departure for the form . |
| 2 | In order to put this over sympathetically to consumers , the Central Authority issued a directive enforcing it on Area Boards : thus underlining the absolute necessity for this increase . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All of these appointments could be used to help friends and thus to sustain a political interest . |
| 5 | Young men with such ambitions should , it was universally agreed , travel widely and thus gain a personal acquaintance with at least some of the major European states , their problems and resources . |
| 6 | Experience of this nature may reduce the reliance of less developed countries on goods imported from abroad ; local manufacturers may be able to satisfy local market needs by intelligent marketing , and thus gain a larger share of the local market than before , with consequent results for local levels of production and the economy generally . |
| 7 | The prediction of the theory , that latent inhibition should be diminished when pre-exposure and conditioning take place in different contexts , thus provoked a new line of experimental work and , as we have seen , the prediction has been convincingly confirmed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As an interesting footnote to the story , after their part in the operation , the two gallant ferries were both given the prefix ‘ Royal ’ by King George V. In 1933 , New Medway Steam Packet Co bought Royal Daffodil and three years later , General Steam bought out NMSP Co , thus bringing the heroic vessel into the P&O fleet . |
| 10 | The new money — most cherished of all currency in scientific finance — amounts to some $600 million , thus bringing the grand total to $6600 million . |
| 11 | These could be designed so that A2 versions could be sold through our retail outlets to visitors ( in a similar way to exhibition posters ) thus recovering a major part of the production and printing costs . |
| 12 | As the Minister and I agree that the fatal weakness of the MacSharry proposals is that they will increase the cost of the common agricultural policy , thus breaching the budgetary limit , will the Minister give the House a guarantee today that the Government will use their right of veto on any proposals to breach the budgetary limit ? |
| 13 | Beyond even this , however , it can be argued that the intrinsic nature of the fabliau that resides in the Shipman 's Tale counteracts all of these " anti-isms " , and that the Shipman 's Tale thus offers a critical disruption of these conventional categories . |
| 14 | This group of frames thus constitutes a kinematic set of geometric domains . |
| 15 | He thus conveyed the false impression that it was in demand . |
| 16 | The interaction between c-Myc and Bcl-2 thus represents a novel type of oncogene cooperation , undetectable by classical transformation-focus assays . |
| 17 | The interaction between c-Myc and Bcl-2 thus represents a novel model for oncogene cooperation which has implications for the genesis and the progression of neoplastic disease . |
| 18 | The program thus fulfils a growing need for dynamic simulation as an essential and cost-effective step towards safe and optimal pipeline design and operation . |
| 19 | It thus fulfils the affirmative function of transmission and the negative function of prevention , both of which are designated semantically . |
| 20 | In this respect his practice contrasts interestingly with that of the Mirror of St Edmund where this is remembered at Compline along with the entombment thus suggesting a constant cycle of enactment of the Passion . |
| 21 | The narrator uses simple nouns in place of more precise terms , thus suggesting the limited lexicon of his characters . |
| 22 | More worryingly , what are the implications of tying manifestations of urban crisis to these places that we call inner cities , thus characterising a social problem as a spatial expression ? |
| 23 | The radio was thus given a traditional role once entrusted only to wise old men and women . |
| 24 | Each area is scored out of 10 and the company is thus given an overall rating out of 200 . |
| 25 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 26 | He thus became a marked man . |
| 27 | The soldier , of whatever rank , thus became a public servant whose task it was , under the command of the king , to defend the community 's interests through war . |
| 28 | Management training thus became a particular focus of attention . |
| 29 | The resulting division of the ‘ home ’ and ‘ away ’ ends thus became an established feature of the game . |
| 30 | It thus became the eukaryotic cell . |