Example sentences of "thus [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fossil assemblage accumulated by a predator thus may not represent any single mammal community from any one habitat . |
| 2 | Married employees may not , under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 , receive less favourable treatment than single employees and thus may not receive lower allowances than those given to single staff . |
| 3 | They had some Lewes bombs , but no detonators , and thus could not carry out their mission . |
| 4 | As ever , little was done to conceal anything from me as I went in and out of the various rooms in which these gentlemen sat deep in discussion , and I thus could not avoid gaining a certain impression of the general mood at this stage of the proceedings . |
| 5 | She had felt sad watching as Tallis had slipped behind her , a figure on the shore , watching with concern but without understanding , since she had failed to place her Moondream mask across her face , and thus could not see the woman in the land . |
| 6 | A few apple , pear and plum varieties are cross-sterile and can not pollinate each other , while some apples and pears are biennial bearers and thus will not supply pollen each year . |
| 7 | A system thus can not create or destroy energy . |
| 8 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | Some argue that the law in England vis-à-vis terminal patients does not meet the first of these criteria , and thus can not satisfy , ex hypothesi , the other two . |
| 10 | When we raise questions about truth and reality , we carry with us presumptions derived from the special sciences , and thus can not achieve transcendental reflection . |
| 11 | His deficit arises in a subsequent stage of attending to these figures , at which he neglects the left of figures wherever they appear , and thus can not judge explicitly whether they are symmetrical about the vertical . |
| 12 | However , another potential source of inequality , ‘ cream skimming ’ , which arises with HMOs is removed since , unlike HMOs , DHAs are compulsorily responsible for all residents and thus can not select only the lower risks . |
| 13 | Polymeric macromolecules have variable dimensions and thus can not pack closely together in a regular arrangement . |