Example sentences of "thus [verb] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Smith said : ‘ I strongly support the proposal that delegates from trade unions should cast their votes on an individual basis , thus bringing the block vote to an end . |
| 2 | The American delegation refused to accept the Soviet proposals and thus undermine the Moscow agreement to which the United States was a signatory . |
| 3 | It thus represents the freezing-point curve of increasingly more concentrated solutions of salt in water . |
| 4 | Marx 's argument that the proletariat becomes a revolutionary force because : machinery reduces differences thus homogenising the labour force ; the nature of work in a modern factory requires organisation ; and the exploitation of the industrial system leads to poverty and alienation , can be applied to rural society in Latin America . |
| 5 | I have also had it explained to me by other feminists campaigning for equality of treatment of wives under social security laws , that their concern was only with the wives of claimants , not of company directors — thus accepting the DHSS principle that wives should be means tested on their husbands ' resources , regardless of the extent of their access to them . |
| 6 | ( g ) one disadvantage with convertible loan stock is that there can be a tendency for stockholders to convert when profits and share prices are rising ( thus diluting the equity profit of existing ordinary shareholders and depriving them of the advantage of the cheaper gearing which such stock provides ) and to retain the stock when profits and share prices are falling , thus maintaining the debt burden of the company at a time when it may be least able to service it ; and |
| 7 | Their major worry is that the Pushkin and the Hermitage may simply choose to withdraw the controversial works as a precaution before 12 May , thus wrecking the Pompidou exhibition . |
| 8 | During the 1960's the pastoralist ideology dominated , praising the countryside image and tradition , hence it might have affected the HIDB 's own self-image , thus protecting the Highland way of life may have been incorporated alongside their development remit . |
| 9 | The PSW thus contains the program counter , the condition code ( if present ) , the processor mode register , and other miscellaneous processor flags , such as overflow . |
| 10 | Under the proposals the country would be divided into nine semi-autonomous regions , replacing the existing four provinces and 10 non-independent bantustans ( homelands ) , thus ending the homelands policy pursued by the party since 1948 . |
| 11 | Parliament on March 20 passed legislation allowing the establishment of independent radio and television stations and news agencies , thus ending the state broadcasting monopoly which had applied since the early 1950s . |
| 12 | Stirling and MacDermott were trapped in a cave and rounded up , thus ending the wartime career of the man who became known to the Germans as the ‘ Phantom Major ’ . |
| 13 | It was reported on May 18 that Poland and the Soviet Union would conduct 10-15 per cent of their trade in hard currency in 1990 and make a complete switch from the beginning of 1991 , thus ending the barter system and trade in non-convertible roubles [ for January 1990 COMECON summit agreeing to review existing trade arrangements see p. 37202 ] . |
| 14 | Although the exposure time and DMS concentration [ up to its solubility limit ( ∼2% v/v ) ] can be varied as long as the product of the two ( and hence , the average number of methylations produced ) remains constant , at higher levels DMS may preferably concentrate in ‘ hydrophobic pockets ’ of the DNA-protein interface and attack within the binding site thus obscuring the cleavage pattern of the bound-DNA fraction . |
| 15 | When the Military Service Act was introduced in January 1916 , the Labour Party Conference , while dissenting , agreed not to campaign for its reappeal , thus enabling the Party leader , Arthur Henderson , to remain in the Coalition Government . |
| 16 | While large firms have continued to increase their capital/labour ratios thus widening the productivity gap with smaller firms , this has certainly not prevented them from persuading their suppliers to improve the quality of their equipment . |
| 17 | By taxing or subsidizing goods that involve externalities , the government can induce the private sector to behave as if it takes account of the externality , thus eliminating the deadweight burden arising from the misallocation induced by the externality distortion . |
| 18 | Bevin was much concerned that the revolution of allied public feeling after Truman 's confused press statement of 30 November 1950 about the possible use of nuclear weapons in Korea had compelled the President to retract it and ‘ thus weakened the deterrent effect of our possession of the atomic weapon ’ . |
| 19 | If such an association could be encouraged in crop plants like the cereals , the additional nitrogen made available by the bacteria would reduce , or possibly even eliminate , the need for artificial nitrate fertilisers and thus halt the eutrophication process in aquatic habitats and aquifers . |
| 20 | They show an African head and the story behind these is that during a battle in the 15th century , when all the Pucci adults were killed , an African slave hid a baby of the family under her garments and fled via an underground passage , thus saving the Pucci line and earning herself a place in the family 's heraldry . |
| 21 | After a combined army of Men and Dwarfs put paid to an Orc invasion at the battle of Black Fire Pass , thus saving the Dwarf realm from destruction , King Kurgan Ironhand showed his gratitude by presenting a gift of magic to the men of the Empire . |
| 22 | In the same way , the rest of the family must be equally firm , thus establishing the pecking order . |
| 23 | If , for example , the saved material was to be inserted into a troff document , each instance of a saved Book-title could be prefixed by the string ‘ \fI ’ and followed by the string ‘ \fP ’ , thus causing the book title to appear in italics when formatted by troff . |
| 24 | Solid modelling thus allows the domain handling approach to be extended from the initial gross object definition level right down to the elemental description of local geometry by use of primitives . |
| 25 | Or would it be fairer to convict the harm-doer of a lesser offence , thus ignoring the chance result ? |
| 26 | We might hold that our beliefs about our sensory states are always justified to some degree just because of their subject matter ( non-inferentially , therefore ) , whereas most other beliefs are justified inferentially if at all ; one could suppose this in an attempt to make sense of the empiricist idea that our beliefs about our present experience have a stability which other beliefs lack , in virtue of which they are able to justify those other beliefs and thus meet the empiricist demand ( vaguely expressed here ) that all our knowledge be grounded in our experience . |
| 27 | Stereoscopic images can be produced from such oblique views , thus improving the information content of the images by allowing terrain elevations to be derived directly from the remotely-sensed images . |
| 28 | In the US , this is provided by the usual media assumption that the Libyans are guilty — thus providing the Bush administration with the kind of support it needs in a desperate election campaign . |
| 29 | The more difficult question to answer is whether these leptokurtic distributions arise because futures price changes ( or returns ) are normally distributed , but the variance changes over time , thus supporting the mixture-of-distributions hypothesis , or are drawn from a stable Pareto distribution . |
| 30 | His grandson Edmund [ q.v. ] became Baron Hammond and was appointed an honorary brother of Hull Trinity House , thus renewing the family link with this institution . |