Example sentences of "and thus [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as men had at some remote date in the past surrendered some of their individual rights to a sovereign and thus created civil society , so now each State must surrender some of its sovereignty to a supranational authority . |
| 2 | This gave the Germans a temporary advantage , but later on was the main cause which brought the US into the war and thus caused German defeat . ’ |
| 3 | Physical closeness in the temple workshops may have stimulated friendly rivalry to produce ever-finer works and thus stimulated technical and artistic development . |
| 4 | Thirdly , European industrialisation and population growth in the 1800s encouraged cheap food imports and thus stimulated economic development in North America and elsewhere . |
| 5 | In November of 1936 , a Franco-Lebanese treaty theoretically recognised the ‘ independence ’ of Lebanon but France was permitted to keep an army in the country and thus maintained considerable political control . |
| 6 | The houses which established the break-away syndicat were less illustrious in name and thus believed little could be gained from an organisation run by the élite for the élite and they therefore grouped together . |
| 7 | The invention in World War I of the Haber process — a method of making ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen — began the modern era of artificial fertilizers , and thus increased atmospheric pollution by compounds of nitrogen . |
| 8 | In 1710 the marquis de Torcy , the reforming last foreign minister of Louis XIV , managed to secure that six should be paid annual pensions of 1,000 livres while they were unemployed between missions , and thus given some financial security ; but this was a gesture with limited effect . |
| 9 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 10 | In Basque law the farm could be left to any child — even a daughter — while co-heirs were bought out : this encouraged emigration of younger sons ( the rich returned ‘ Indian ’ was a feature of Basque life ) and thus mitigated some of the evils of rural over-population . |
| 11 | Lyn was up 7–1 ( ! ) to Brann away and looked to have saved themselves with three minutes to go — but they relaxed to early and got two late , late goals against them and thus won 7–3 , a goal to little and was relegated . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the lower economic cost of one of the chemotherapy arms in the Canadian trial reflected decreased rates of hospital admission and thus provided indirect evidence of improved quality of life . |
| 13 | De Valera 's Republicans decided to contest seats in the North and thus allowed Prime Minister Brooke to present the election as a plebiscite on partition and the existence of Ulster . |
| 14 | The National Assembly on March 5 unanimously adopted a bill which entitled all Bulgarian citizens freely to choose their own names , and thus allowed ethnic Turks and Pomaks ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) to resume the use of their original names in place of the Slavic names which they had been compelled to adopt during official campaigns of forced assimilation , the Pomaks in the early 1970s and the Turks in 1984-85 . |
| 15 | Davis failed to make contact with either of two clearly visible reds in three attempts when leading 37–36 in the ninth frame — and thus allowed Doherty safe passage into today 's semi-finals . |
| 16 | It has been pointed out that the modern ostrich and the Cretaceous Struthiomimus lived in the same sort of exposed habitat , and thus evolved similar bipedal running gaits . |
| 17 | It was the fault not so much of the railways as of the suburban landowners who deliberately kept land prices beyond the pockets of the working class and thus preserved social exclusivity . |
| 18 | The approach brought central-government departments into closer practical contact with problems , and thus encouraged civil servants to adopt more pro-active as opposed to supervisory stances . |
| 19 | The Podensac , who held a number of strong-points on the Garonne , had married into the bourgeois family of Caillau at Bordeaux in 1293 and thus brought much of their fortune into the Albret inheritance . |
| 20 | The mace was particularly favoured by militant churchmen , who argued that although the scriptures forbade the shedding of blood , and thus precluded them from wielding swords , the mace was a crushing implement and thus avoided such religious bans altogether . |
| 21 | And this was the real beginning of the nightmare , my proper seat was filled by a Brazilian basketball player who was twice my size and thus needed two seats to sprawl across . |