Example sentences of "thus [v-ing] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Touching his nose with a forefinger and pressing his conk hard against the face ( thus producing a pugilistic look ) he said : ‘ Just look at this ! |
| 6 | Landsat images of a given area will therefore always be taken at the same local solar time and not at varying times throughout the day , thus maintaining a constant direction of illumination . |
| 7 | Taking a little live yoghurt or a lactobacillus supplement ( available as acidophilus capsules : the best are enteric coated , which prevent the capsule dissolving in the stomach where the acidophilus would be killed by the stomach juices thus allowing a safe passage to the lower gut where they are needed ) will often help to restore this balance more quickly . |
| 8 | Will my right hon. Friend accept the thanks of the whole House for agreeing to extend last night 's debate until midnight , thus allowing a large number of Members to be called ? |
| 9 | Furthermore , when the king-duke died , his eldest son would succeed to the English throne , thus necessitating a new transfer of Aquitaine . |
| 10 | Bridge two at Keighley was still under repair thus necessitating a cautious exit from the station by all trains . |
| 11 | The welfare of deaf people was thus becoming a grave concern to many people , and this led in 1911 to an important milestone being reached through the efforts of a wealthy merchant banker , a Mr. Leo Bonn , who was himself deaf . |
| 12 | In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share . |
| 13 | When the room number and balance pick up check digits are entered they are verified electronically and if incorrect the terminal will reject the entire entry as invalid thus eliminating a common error in posting to guest 's folio . |
| 14 | ‘ The carriage itself is of oblong shape , the dimensions being about 13ft by 7ft thus forming a handsome saloon , 8ft high in the clear . |
| 15 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
| 16 | The purpose of this is to enable regular discussions to take place thus developing a good working relationship within which problems can be talked through . |
| 17 | Where an absolute norm for English can not be relied on , the next best thing is to compare the corpus whose style is under scrutiny with one or more comparable corpuses , thus establishing a relative norm . |
| 18 | Although I realise that he can not know of a particular incident that has been drawn to my attention today , is he aware that information has been sent to deceased claimants , thus causing a great deal of distress to the families concerned ? |
| 19 | Even in non-calcareous rocks it is possible that sea water may exert a chemical action on some rock-forming minerals , thus causing a rapid dissolution of the rocks . |
| 20 | He went on in Book IV ( 1603 ) to introduce free declamation on whole chords ( ‘ Sfogava con le stelle ’ ) and to heighten his norm of unconventional dissonance , thus provoking a famous attack by the conservative theorist Giovanni Artusi . |
| 21 | During the 1630s , the king and his Arminian bishops encouraged both laity and clergy to fill their parish churches with lavish decorations and furnishings , in the form of new altars , chalices , pictures , and stained glass , thus provoking a bitter conflict with those who preferred the plainness of the pre-1625 church interiors and who continued to regard decoration as popish and idolatrous . |
| 22 | Thus confirming a previous report from Spain . |
| 23 | The weaker version of left idealism — that working-class crime is an irrelevance , dramatised by the capitalist media for diversionary purposes — has had an important resurgence in the 1980s with reference to black urban crime , thus adding a racial component to the original class issue ( see Tierney , 1988 , for both an analysis and an evocation of the sense of déjà vu ) . |
| 24 | Sergei Yushenkov , a leading democrat in the Russian parliament , guesses that , for less than $10m , you could bribe enough deputies to resign , making it impossible for parliament to form a quorum and thus forcing a general election : a small price to pay for removing a big obstacle to reform . |
| 25 | My Canon Typestar typewriter occasionally forgot to type the letter ‘ R ’ and its successor , a Typestar 90 , would sometimes forget to transport the next line , thus printing a new line over the previous one . |
| 26 | Hebb 's view , as described in Chapter 6 , was that memory formation should involve some element of synaptic growth or reconstruction , thus providing a new pattern of connectivity between neurons which can subsequently be preserved ; and this indeed remains the consensus , though by no means the only view . |
| 27 | The offence of incest prohibits certain sexual relations within the family , thus providing a distinct label for some forms of child sexual abuse by parents and grandparents , although it also covers brother — sister relationships . |
| 28 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 29 | Londonderry was chosen as the focus because the religious balance of the city in 1911 was almost the exact inverse of the county , thus providing a rural/urban dimension to the study . |
| 30 | Continuous adjustment If a country is suffering balance of payments difficulties because of a long-run decline in its competitive position , then a floating exchange rate allows a gradual depreciation of the home currency to come about , thus providing a continuous stimulus to exports and a continuous discourage-ment to imports . |