Example sentences of "[noun prp] thus [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mueller thus gained immediate planning control of world wide operations , even before he had formally received top management approval to proceed . |
| 2 | Britain 's conventional forces in Germany thus remained of prime importance . |
| 3 | Stirling thus decided to abandon operations for a while and send a strong party back to base to collect stores and the new vehicles he had requested . |
| 4 | The promise of enlarged democratic rights had encouraged the ‘ playful giant ’ to be less submissive than formerly , Arnold thought , and he was beginning to assert with increasing regularity ‘ his right to march where he likes , meet where he likes , enter where he likes , hoot as he likes , threaten as he likes , smash as he likes ’ : Matthew Arnold thus proposed in the late 1860s that crime and disorder should be understood as a consequence of the already evident ‘ permissive ’ disintegration of the stable traditions , and although he was not narrowly obsessed with street violence and rowdyism , nevertheless these were an integral feature of his vision of decay — something which was deeply characteristic of this era . |
| 5 | It is recorded , for example , that in spite of his duties as kadi and muderris , he yet managed to copy every day two leaves from the books of the ancients and Mecdi adds in regard to this point that Molla Husrev thus left a number of books in his own hand at his death . |
| 6 | In this first signal Gen Keightley thus alerted Eighth Army and AFHQ to the emergency with which 5 Corps was being faced by the approach of the 600,000 additional fugitives from the south , on top of the problems posed by the " 300,000 surrendered personnel and refugees " already in the Corps area . |
| 7 | Coleridge thus moved beyond Schleiermacher in stressing the personal in God 's own being , though , like Schleiermacher , he too tended to place the theological centre of gravity in the inner experience of faith . |
| 8 | The MCCs thus created differed in at least two respects from the Royal Commission 's recommendations : first , the boundaries of the conurbations were much more tightly drawn ; second , the number of metropolitan counties was increased from three to six . |
| 9 | Shklar argues that , with Dicey , the concept was ‘ both trivialized as the peculiar patrimony of one and only one national order , and formalized , by the insistence that only one set of inherited procedures and court practices could sustain it ’ Dicey thus suggested that , rather than the purposes of juridical rigour , it was the forms that were significant for freedom . |
| 10 | The February 1974 election in Ulster thus decided that the Labour Party and not the Conservative Party would form the government at Westminster and that Harold Wilson and not Edward Heath would be the new prime minister . |
| 11 | Philip thus forced upon the Netherlanders a degree of unity which had hitherto not existed . |
| 12 | Stockdale thus succeeded , but the matter did not end there . |
| 13 | Campbell thus sought to subordinate law to love , and the ‘ judicial ’ element in our relation to God to a deeper and wider ‘ filial ’ one . |
| 14 | Austin thus reduced law to the psychological fact of command and some American Realists are associated with the predictive account of law . |
| 15 | In the previous year , Central Office wished to promote Captain Edwards , the chief agent for Birmingham , to be a Central Office district agent , but they were thwarted by the Chamberlains , who wished to keep him to look after Birmingham ; Neville Chamberlain arranged to have Edwards paid enough in Birmingham to keep him there and the interests of Birmingham thus prevailed over those of the party as a whole . |
| 16 | The reawakening of interest in slavery prompted by Mrs Stowe 's writing and her visit to Britain thus encouraged some co-operation , or at least recognition that parallel action based on elements of agreement was taking place amongst different groups of abolitionists . |
| 17 | The history of the last century in Lebanon thus provided dynamite for the detonation of the past 15 years . |
| 18 | Employing the familiar juxtaposition of ‘ the remarkably law-abiding character of twentieth century English life ’ and ‘ the law-abiding England of pre-1940 ’ as against what he repeatedly identified as ‘ new ’ — ‘ the new juvenile crime ’ , ‘ the new rebels ’ , ‘ the new generation of indifferent parents ’ , ‘ a new type of violence ’ , ‘ the new state of insecurity ’ — Fyvel thus considered that there was ‘ something in the way of life , in the break-up of traditional authority , in the values of the news in the headlines , which encouraged widespread youthful cynicism in general and rather violent delinquency in particular ’ and that this was ‘ a by-product of a new economic revolution which has put spending money on a scale not known before into the pockets of working-class boys and girls ’ . |
| 19 | Singer thus moved from one of the poorest to one of the wealthiest of the Jewish congregations in London ; the transition coincided with a turning-point in the development of the Anglo-Jewish ministry . |