Example sentences of "thus [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The new money — most cherished of all currency in scientific finance — amounts to some $600 million , thus bringing the grand total to $6600 million . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | He thus conveyed the false impression that it was in demand . |
| 8 | It thus fulfils the affirmative function of transmission and the negative function of prevention , both of which are designated semantically . |
| 9 | The narrator uses simple nouns in place of more precise terms , thus suggesting the limited lexicon of his characters . |
| 10 | It thus became the eukaryotic cell . |
| 11 | Argentina thus became the fifth country to reach such an agreement as part of the Brady Plan , a mechanism devised by the US Treasury Secretary Nicolas Brady in March 1989 to reduce the debt burdens of developing countries [ see pp. 36541-42 ] . |
| 12 | He thus became the key figure in implementing the changes in the Government legal service arising out of the Compton Report . |
| 13 | After the Second World War — during which time Fred served as a Special in the Metropolitan Police and later in the Royal Artillery — he put in another 111 League appearances and thus became the only Palace player to make a century of appearances on each side of the war . |
| 14 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 15 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 16 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 17 | Boothroyd thus became the first woman Speaker . |
| 18 | After Ireland and Luxembourg , Greece thus became the third member country to approve the treaty . |
| 19 | The British Navy thus became the dominant force between northern Britain and Norway , so poised as to frustrate any German sortie into the North Sea . |
| 20 | Loft : The term used to describe the ability of the filling to expand within the confines of the shell construction , thus producing the required layer of still air for insulation . |
| 21 | We finally arrived in Calgary on the afternoon of the second day , thus inaugurating the first flight of the western Canada air mail service . |
| 22 | The analysis thus involves the exact description not only of the language of the text , but also of its content . |
| 23 | Although authors have arrived at different figures , thus reflecting the inherent difficulty and speculative nature of the task involved , they have been unanimous in one conclusion : persons are deprived of far more money by corporate crimes than they are by ordinary economic crimes , such as robbery , theft , larceny , and auto-theft . |
| 24 | Flexible though the Formalist/Prague School approach may be in this respect , it still attaches overwhelming importance to the element of innovation in literature , thus reflecting the permanent revolution in poetic language , and in literary forms in general , brought about by the modernist movement from the later nineteenth century onwards . |
| 25 | By laying their eggs in small strips or bundles attached to vegetation , spadefoots ensure that each individual egg is , as far as possible , surrounded by water and thus receives the maximum supply of available oxygen . |
| 26 | Thus arose the delicate question of whether Soames should be allowed access to secret documents and Cabinet papers . |
| 27 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 28 | As mentioned in the sub-section on SPRs , a number of SSRs should be generated when responding to a complex SPR , thus allowing the complete description to be stored in LIFESPAN . |
| 29 | This had allowed one end of the pin to disengage from the buckle backplate , thus allowing the clamping lever to displace , effectively unfastening the belt . |
| 30 | Consequently , the model excludes activities associated with making precise calculations of actual resource needs and costs , and reflects the use of weighted factors to determine instead the relative costs of courses , thus allowing the available finance to be allocated on an equitable basis to Colleges , and within Colleges , to Departments . |