Example sentences of "[v-ing] thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tool using thus covers a broad range of activities throughout the animal kingdom , from the mindless and mechanical to the considered and imaginative . |
| 2 | Some models have a secondary pump which can allow the collection tank to drain while the machine is still operating thus allowing extended periods of continuous running . |
| 3 | Writing thus approached becomes an end in itself . |
| 4 | Pausing thus seems to be an integral part of spontaneous speech . |
| 5 | The shock caused by Balfour 's going thus did something to steady the party and it certainly produced a real determination to settle the affairs of the party with less friction than had been fashionable of late . |
| 6 | Formal studies of code switching thus tend to deal with idealised or edited data , to which syntactic theories are applied : e.g. Phrase Structure Grammar ( Joshi 1985 ) ; Government and Binding ( Di Sciullo et al. |
| 7 | Esther , having thus fulfilled her obligations to her friends , forgot them both instantly , and returned her attention to a volume called The Vegetation of Medieval Europe and a German monograph on Sodoma ; works which she was reading and annotating by her own interleaved system , a system which had evolved from her inability to concentrate fully on any one topic for more than ten minutes . |
| 8 | Having thus concluded that it is Mehmed Sah , not his father , to whom the list entry corresponding to the year 832 ( 833 ? ) refers , Husameddin mentions the pilgrimage in 833 and then proceeds to try to invalidate the evidence of the biographical sources about Molla Fenari 's death date by saying that Ibn Hajar dates his return to Rum , not his death , in Rajab 834 and that Ibn Taghribirdi gives that date for his departure on the pilgrimage . |
| 9 | Having thus grasped the important principle that kinship terms reflect social usage , Morgan was able to go further and indeed to anticipate later research in his perceptive assessment of the social advantages of the classificatory system . |
| 10 | Having thus fire and water at every dwelling , there is no need to enquire why they dwell thus dispers 'd upon the highest hills … |
| 11 | Nevertheless , despite having thus declared its relative impotence , more than three-quarters of the teachers who had seen the booklet said that they were in favour of self-evaluation schemes of this kind . |
| 12 | Having thus fended off three challenges to his leadership , Franco felt sufficiently confident to deal summarily with the fourth , simply picking off the signatories of the September petition one by one . |
| 13 | Having thus tested the strength of the main anchor , the last person down can remove the back-up before abseiling . |
| 14 | Having thus established his own reality , he proceeded by working out from there to ‘ prove ’ the existence of the external world , of other people , and of God . |
| 15 | Having thus identified the right way to do the job and explained why it was not practically possible for Owen to adopt it , they then proceed to attack the substance of his proposal . |
| 16 | Having thus discussed the interpretation of this problem , you would , of course , go on to consider the law relating to it . |
| 17 | Having thus resigned herself to the passive lifestyle of a semi-invalid literary lady , she became a regular contributor to the Spectator , then edited by her father 's close friend Richard Holt Hutton [ q.v. ] , in which she published over fifty articles between 1880 and 1893 . |
| 18 | Before stepping unrepentantly down ( in 1989 ) , he entrenched himself as commander of the army for six further years , intending thus to protect the criminals who had done the dirty work while he was president . |
| 19 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Polite conversation , no more , ’ she said airily , hoping thus to goad Anne into revealing a little more . |
| 21 | The Collector 's mind had wandered yet again , though he nodded intelligently from time to time , hoping thus to soothe the Padre . |
| 22 | The system of investing thus developed would seem to have provided the state with a means of controlling both the quality and the quantity of the intake of students into the learned profession . |
| 23 | Licensing thus gives some ‘ protection ’ to the general public but it offers no immunity to the retailer . |
| 24 | The discovery of the impossibility of fleeing thus comes after the mental process of sizing up the situation denoted by saw , and this calls for the use of to . |