Example sentences of "[noun] [be] thus a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pollsters ' findings on the economy 's future are thus a fair measure of businessmen 's thinking — but little guide to what will actually occur . |
| 2 | The ACE/ID polymorphism is thus an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction in low-risk individuals . |
| 3 | A partnership is thus a collection of principals and agents . |
| 4 | The IATTC observer programme is thus a fairly pointless exercise , since the true data are not obtainable and violations are hushed up , proving the power of the tuna industry to silence the truth . |
| 5 | The study is thus a good survey of Austen 's portrayal of her society . |
| 6 | Appraisal is thus a process of negotiating individual targets in order to improve personal performance and so enhance the quality of educational provision . |
| 7 | The geography of the Outer Hebrides is thus a fascinating product of the interplay of physical and human factors with powerful historical undertones . |
| 8 | Miners are thus a high risk group for the development of gastric cancer and gastroscopic screening could give a significant yield of early gastric cancers . |
| 9 | The major consequence of this bureaucratic inheritance is thus an imbalance between the power of bureaucracy and the power of other political institutions , an imbalance which is believed to have serious implications for further political development . |
| 10 | Theory Z is thus an extension of Theory Y , with the participative approach to decision-making emphasised as a need for consensus , and with an emphasis on personal commitment and the humanisation of work activities . |
| 11 | St Albans is thus a planned town of late Saxon date . |
| 12 | The manifest dream that is available for recall is thus a compromise , whereby the wish-fulfilments have been disguised . |
| 13 | Postponement of marriage was thus a judicious policy and a vital element in his standard of living . |
| 14 | Introduced so hastily after the original abolition of flogging , and remaining on the statute book until judicial corporal punishment was ended as recently as 1948 , the Garotter 's Act was thus a historic landmark of reaction ; and it was quickly followed by measures to toughen prison discipline and to introduce a minimum penalty of five years of penal servitude for second offenders . |
| 15 | The struggle for national independence was thus a peculiar context where the normal sets of interests and classes appeared not to bind the leaders : the skilful adventurer could almost create his or her own outcome . |
| 16 | Independence was thus a two-way phenomenon ; local parties should be independent not only of central direction but also of individuals . |
| 17 | Post-audits are thus a means of evaluating management expertise . |
| 18 | Style borrowing is thus a telling illustration of a principle on which Halliday insists : that prominence is not only " departure from a norm " but " attainment of a norm " . |
| 19 | Socialisation is thus a process that integrates the individual into the ways and standards of the community of which he or she is a part . |
| 20 | The boundary separating these two domains is thus a function of a community 's isolation and lack of effective communication with , and control over , its surroundings . |
| 21 | Donkey Lane is thus a potentially very useful link . |
| 22 | Increased salinisation is thus a real prospect for the lower Yangtze if this project proceeds . |
| 23 | Inversion is thus a kind of ‘ turning inside out ’ effect . |
| 24 | Managing effective teams is thus a matter of achieving synergy between a variety of elements ( see Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 25 | The planner is thus a sort of agent provocateur on behalf of the consumer , working on both agency and client . |
| 26 | I respectively , to the anions and cations of solids and free them by neutralizing their charge ; water is thus a highly effective solvent . |
| 27 | Those containing tin ( in water containing sodium carbonate ) are particularly effective ; solder is thus a convenient material . |
| 28 | The catalogue as a whole is thus a document in the history of taste , a historical account , and at the same time contains some art criticism , not always explicit in evaluating the works shown . |
| 29 | Much of his leadership was thus a form of pragmatic extremism , extreme action and the threat of more extreme action to come , but used in the cause of more limited objectives . |
| 30 | Whether shifts changed in place or at the surface was thus a matter of some importance . |