Example sentences of "thus that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thus that he declares himself for Dunning 's sapphics , flashing out at ‘ any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 2 | It is thus that the ‘ head ’ as bearer of an impressive array of receptor organs ( sight , sound , odour ) has evolved . |
| 3 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 4 | It is thus that our imaginative faculty is kindled , uniting the flames of cognition and emotion . |
| 5 | It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed . |
| 6 | What has changed is that a convention has developed as to how and when this power is exercised and the modern position is thus that the monarch has , except in the most unusual circumstances and even then only doubtfully so , no discretion as to when Parliament shall be called and disbanded . |
| 7 | Although she continued to knit , and sat upright , it was thus that she felt herself ; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures . |
| 8 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 9 | The familiarity of this divide at least seems to show that we do not treat all behaviour as determined , and thus that a distinction between autonomous and non-autonomous individuals is part of our everyday conception of the world . |
| 10 | Sidgwick , for example , argued thus that the typical duties recognized by common sense could not be self evident and necessary since the clashes between them needed to be resolved by appeal to a more fundamental principle , that of the principle of utility , and that it was therefore this alone which possessed such a status . |
| 11 | The argument is thus that the major purpose behind project work from a teacher 's point of view should be skill development rather than knowledge acquisition . |
| 12 | It was thus that the classic wine-growing areas — the Camp of Tarragona and the Panadés — were expanded and the western regions re-peopled . |
| 13 | Mr. Pegg believes that his tariff may have been set on the basis that the attack was premeditated , and thus that the tariff period should be reduced . |
| 14 | The most serious problem remaining for 5 Corps was thus that posed by the approach of the main body of Croat troops ( reported as being 200,000 in number ) , accompanied by huge numbers of Croat civilians , who were attempting to escape into Austria via Dravograd , towards the small town of Bleiburg just inside the Austrian frontier . |
| 15 | The correct position is thus that the corporate entity is a vehicle for benefiting the interests of a specified group or groups . |
| 16 | Thus that no more than three lines can intersect at right angles in a point ; that a line ( theoretically ) can be extended into infinity ; that congruent figures can be superimposed upon each other , while incongruent figures ca n't ( even though they are completely alike in all points ) etc. ; all of this may be phenomenologically obvious , but why should it be true of an objective world ? |
| 17 | Their purpose is to ensure that community service orders are tough and demanding ; that they are managed consistently and with discipline and thus that the public and sentencers can have confidence in them . |
| 18 | It is thus that we understand |
| 19 | The assumption here is that ‘ when [ a driver ] happens to feel subjective risk or fear he often tends immediately to eliminate this feeling by certain behavioural changes ’ ( Summala , 1976 , p.239 ) , a major cause of accidents is thus that drivers have too high a ‘ subjective risk threshold ’ . |
| 20 | It is thus that I arrive at my multiplier for the whole life of eighteen . |
| 21 | It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case . |