Example sentences of "thus although " in BNC.

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1 Thus although the political initiative for the start of NEP came from the top , the economic life-blood at first began to flow from the bottom upwards .
2 Thus although we do not know how the DNA controls development , we are reasonably sure that it does carry almost all the information which has been produced by selection , and which is needed to control development .
3 Thus although his territories were extensive and almost equal to those of his elder brother , the military might and command of the famous Frankish warriors remained mainly with Charles .
4 Thus although the general attitude of the public is sympathetic to the mentally handicapped in our society , there remains an overriding sense of pity that they are as they are , and a feeling that there has to be some degree of segregation between them and the rest of society .
5 Thus although much has been achieved , it would be a mistake to believe that most of the problems have been solved .
6 Thus although it may be quite safe to sow grasses and clovers on dry soils in the regions of low rainfall in the South and East of England in August , and in exceptional years even later , in regions of high rainfall such as prevail in Wales and most of the North and West of England it is likely to be somewhat risky to defer sowing later than about the middle of June .
7 Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements .
8 When the Davy Lamp is taken into air that contains more than 5 per cent of firedamp , or if the air passing the lamp is suddenly contaminated to that extent , the air inside the lamp explodes and puts out the light but the mesh prevents the explosion being transmitted to the air outside the lamp Thus although the miner is put in the dark he is alive to tell the tale .
9 Thus although it may be the case that communicative demands result in error because the learner does not have enough time to access second language systemic knowledge , equally they may do so because such demands quite naturally lead learners to call upon whatever resources they have at their disposal , some of which will be drawn from their own language .
10 Thus although news executives continued to value ‘ scoops ’ , Tunstall found in the 1970s that among journalists themselves , it was more important not to come last with the news than to be first with it ( Tunstall , 1971 ) .
11 Thus although the authorities had their wish and Leese was effectively silenced for six months , during which time the IFL became a virtually moribund organization , the Rex v.
12 Thus although the term ‘ Messiah ’ simply meant ‘ the anointed one ’ , or ‘ king ’ , the concept of kingship it implied involved far more than concepts of kingship do today .
13 Thus although it is true that " teachers articulate purpose " , this articulation and its achievement will often be the more effective for professional cooperation .
14 Thus although it is recognized that regulatory agencies can influence behaviour , it is also true that the framework on to which they impose constraints is not the same regardless of the underlying institutional structure .
15 Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming .
16 Thus although , from a technical point of view , the old system of division of labour is thrown overboard , it hangs on in the factory as a tradition handed down from manufacture , and is then systematically reproduced and fixed in a more hideous form by capital as a means of exploiting labour power .
17 Thus although it is true to say more Blacks chose to be committed to the Crown Court for trial this was certainly not a complete explanation of the difference , as magistrates also committed more cases .
18 Thus although Kimura 's original findings related ear asymmetry to the hemispheric side of speech production it is possible that differences between the ears reflect asymmetry between the hemispheres in speech perception rather than production .
19 Thus although poverty among lone mothers has increased in the 1980s , as a group they have long been vulnerable to poverty .
20 Thus although they can learn colours as signals for food and as markers for the entrance to their hive , they have difficulty with other types of colour learning , such as using colour as a cue to finding their way out of a closed space .
21 Thus although each receptor type responds to glutamate , some will respond to chemically similar molecules as well , others show different forms of specificity .
22 Thus although it is possible to establish a stoplist covering a number of standard terms not suitable for indexing , this normally needs to be modified to reflect the circumstances of each system .
23 Thus although the subjects are reasonably uniform they are not identical .
24 Thus although Y owes X the duties which an agent owes to his principal , it is Y who as seller can sue Z for the price and be sued by Z for breach of the contract of sale .
25 Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 .
26 Thus although there was no significant relationship between normality and P(A) from Study 3 it seems advisable to see whether this is also the case using normality ratings taken from the Groeger and Chapman study .
27 Thus although eradication of H pylori has been shown to dramatically reduce ulcer relapse rates , we still do not know how H pylori causes ulcers .
28 Pioneering in this respect was the interpretation of the Shipman 's Tale by Janette Richardson ( 1970 ) , who claimed that the merchant was tied by the imagery of the tale into an inseparable pairing with the monk , and thus although " " overtly " " morally superior to the monk in several ways still essentially one with him .
29 Thus although the sociolinguistic profile " High : Standard English/Low : Creole " holds good throughout the ex-British Caribbean almost without exception , we need to make a distinction between those places where the majority speak a Creole with English-derived vocabulary , and those where most or some of the populace speak a Creole with French-derived vocabulary .
30 Thus although seh is equivalent to that in some contexts , we do not have a simple case of replacing a British English lexical item with a Creole one .
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