Example sentences of "be thus [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Twenty million patients have been thus treated , with no deaths .
2 It is only when they have been thus adopted that conscious strategy turns into habitual rule , coping into culture .
3 The law has been thus stated in a number of earlier decisions of this court , of which In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 is the most recent .
4 The first declared excommunicate all laymen who gave , and all clergy who received , lay investiture of churches or ecclesiastical offices , and any bishop who consecrated a clerk who had been thus invested .
5 He had himself — however ambiguously — received investiture with his archbishopric from the king , and he had certainly consecrated bishops who had been thus invested .
6 The risk of leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma was significantly increased in children whose fathers had been thus monitored : four fathers of cases and three fathers of controls had been issued with monitoring devices before their child 's illness was diagnosed ( relative risk 8.0 , p=0.02 ) , and of these , three fathers of cases and two fathers of controls were monitored before their child 's conception ( relative risk 9.0 , p=0.047 ) .
7 And Professor Bourdieu , in response , has claimed that in fact social stasis is a more prevalent phenomenon than social change in empirical reality , and that he has been thus justified in his pronounced concern over his career with the explanation of such social stasis .
8 She was flattered and excited that Hugo had talked of their relationship to Eleanor : offended that her privacy had been thus violated .
9 When an executive had been thus promoted , his style and approach would become refined .
10 Most historical religions have been thus used .
11 This would be untrue of course , if ‘ god ’ were just another name for the natural processes which provide food , but such a limited definition of the word would serve no purpose in the establishment of a religion , and it has never been thus used .
12 Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century .
13 The two eigenvalues of unc are thus determined by unc The required eigenvalues are thus 0.2 ( bottom right-hand element of B ) , 0.4 ( bottom right-hand element of
14 The wages of farm workers are thus determined by the conditions prevailing in the local labour market , rather than that for agricultural products .
15 Thus Titmuss has argued : ‘ The aims and content of social policy , both in peace and in war , are thus determined — at least to a substantial extent-by how far the co-operation of the masses is essential to the successful prosecution of war . ’
16 Many carers provide 24 hour nursing care and are thus rendered housebound themselves .
17 Phosphorus that diffuses upward from the bottom is absorbed by the accumulated bacteria and algal cells at the top of the anoxic layer ; very little penetrates to the less saline layers above , which are thus limited to the very small amounts brought in by Onyx River .
18 The flows of life energy in the body along the meridians are thus adjusted and balanced at certain very carefully chosen spots .
19 The hexagonal layers are thus arranged in the sequence , ABABABABA …
20 Organizations are thus characterized as combining controls and the means to exercise those controls .
21 The pragmatics of all these statements — the ways they are used to produce certain effects on the people to whom they are addressed — are thus tied to their propaganda value for particular campaigns or positions , or to their instrumental value in furthering the personal or political objectives of particular individuals or groups .
22 Earth Report ( 1988 ) , for example , states that in Pakistan more than 65 per cent of the country 's 150 000 km 2 of irrigated land are thus affected ; in Egypt 35 per cent of farmland has salinity and waterlogging problems and in Iraq and India the situation is similarly acute .
23 Television 's ‘ cumulative effects ’ are thus related to the ways in which it ‘ transmits reality and affects the imagery of politics and political figures ’ .
24 The events they referred to can be verified from other sources : the battles of Kawz and Hawaria also appear in Graziani 's work , for example , and are thus authenticated ( Graziani , 1932 ) .
25 Hence , as in so many other traditional cultures , the victims of affliction are thus revealed as criminals ; in contrast to the situation in Samuel Butler 's allegorical novel Erewhon , it is not so much that sickness in itself is a crime as that it is a symptom and consequence of criminal activity .
26 The source and drain are thus connected by a so-called ‘ inversion layer ’ , in which the majority charge carrier ( electrons ) is the minority one in the bulk of the semiconductor ( which is p-type , so holes are the majority carrier ) .
27 If just one or two Germans among that 50 per cent see it , and are thus prevented from forgetting the past , it may be worthwhile .
28 To maintain the management culture , new ideas are thus injected into the company through new-manager training , the key course for first-time first-line managers .
29 When Community rules are thus applied by the national courts , they fall to be interpreted , not according to domestic canons of construction , but according to Community methods of interpretation .
30 Organizations are thus conceived of as purposive social arrangements , as stable social groups with internally differentiated roles that are brought together for some purpose .
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