Example sentences of "is thus [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Meaning is thus prior to words and language , it lies within the mind .
2 The ego is thus impoverished in this unrequited love situation , whereas , in identification , the ego is enriched by introjecting the object and its properties .
3 Of themselves , of course , the rules are normative , and their validity is thus unaffected by issues of fact .
4 The CTP , or something like it , is thus crucial to the over-riding scientific project of describing the whole of reality in terms of a single set of ( physical ) mechanisms .
5 The banks ' role in the economy is thus crucial , and this was underlined when Chancellor Kohl turned to them for help in rebuilding East Germany .
6 It is thus crucial to choose a common reference position that avoids any initial bias in potential difference between each of the hemisphere leads and the common reference .
7 Their development is thus crucial to potential profitability .
8 Not only may she give birth to as many as nine babies at a time , but she may have as many as seventeen litters in a breeding season and she is thus capable of producing a hundred and fifty young a year .
9 This is analogous to the optical case of light from a source immersed in a liquid beamed at the surface and is thus capable of giving rise to similar critical " internal reflection " conditions .
10 The life expectancy of a girl of twenty four , according to conventional tables , is for the age of seventy nine and is thus fifty five years .
11 To ascribe diagnosis of such cases solely to ultrasonography is thus incorrect as prior knowledge of the results of biochemical screening could lead to a bias in identifying cases by ultrasonography .
12 The process of interaction with our users is thus two-way .
13 You understand that we shall be under no liability to pay any refund or compensation to or costs incurred by any person whose behaviour is thus unacceptable .
14 A European Common Foreign and Security policy is thus unrelated to any military assessment of Europe 's defence needs .
15 It is thus possible to see local politics in these years as having , in some degree , a life of its own ’ ( 1985a , pp. 82–3 ) .
16 It is thus possible to analyse factors in the situation , but not to make general statements about many aspects of the movement in population at this time .
17 It is thus possible that , just as we are suggesting for some of the other finds at Mycenae , it was taken from Knossos : if so , the implication is that other pieces of statuary and relief carving from Minoan Knossos were also removed — by some Mycenean equivalent of Lord Elgin , perhaps .
18 It is thus possible , indeed common , for each of two rival lineages to claim , as the British and Germans did in the First World War , that ‘ God is on our side ’ .
19 It is thus possible that the effect of the Great Conspiracy has been magnified in order to give Count Theodosius greater credibility in his programme of restoration .
20 It is thus possible that there exists today , in some archive , library or monastery in Ireland or Wales , a corpus of material comparable in value to the texts found at Nag Hammadi , or to the Dead Sea Scrolls .
21 It is thus possible to describe an assembly of entities making up a component as a set of elements , such as shown in Figure 2.2 , for both the geometry and the function .
22 It is thus possible to define the functioning relationships as attributes of the intersecting sub-spaces .
23 It is thus possible to conceive of certain functional properties that can be defined as being geometry controlling or geometry checking .
24 He is once referred to by the chronicler , Matthew Paris [ q.v. ] , as ‘ Master Longespee ’ and it is thus possible that he was a son of William Longespée , third Earl of Salisbury ( died 1226 , q.v. ) , who was Henry III 's uncle .
25 It is thus possible that Venus did once possess a large quantity of water .
26 From the number density of craters on these regions it is thus possible to establish the lunar cratering rate over a considerable period of time as shown in Figure 6.9 .
27 The theoretical territory attached to this hillfort , as suggested by Ian Burrow , is very similar to the land defined in the seventh-century charter , and it is thus possible that the estate of the hillfort persisted throughout the Roman period to emerge as a land unit belonging to Glastonbury Abbey until the sixteenth century .
28 It was previously suggested that fixed information will tend to be peripheral to the driving task and variable information is more likely to be central , it is thus possible that the amount of these types of information will constrain any effects of attention focusing .
29 It is thus possible to describe the types of information which are most clearly central and peripheral with respect to this definition .
30 It is thus possible that if the splanchnic vasodilation could be overcome , there could be an amelioration in the systemic and renal circulation .
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