Example sentences of "[coord] thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondary teachers were the most negative in Oxfordshire in their attitudes towards the efficiency of SSE , and thus contrasted strongly with their counterparts in Solihull , who were neutral . |
| 2 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |
| 3 | Following from Donoghue v. Stevenson there have been a number of cases which have sought to apply the neighbour principle to different situations and thus broaden its scope . |
| 4 | Firstly it belongs to John Major himself , for taking to the hustings , and restoring , a cutting edge to the party dialogue — and thus taking the Central Office by the scruff of the neck and lifting it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk . |
| 5 | Densan tended initially to limit managerial discretion much more and thus seemed to offer a better alternative for labour . |
| 6 | Although warned by referee John Street of the consequences of a further ‘ miss ’ after two failures , Davis still could not hit either of the two balls and thus became the most notable victim of the controversial rule . |
| 7 | The turbine had little success as it emptied the mill pond too quickly and thus became inefficient , a common problem with the early turbines . |
| 8 | After the Second World War — during which time Fred served as a Special in the Metropolitan Police and later in the Royal Artillery — he put in another 111 League appearances and thus became the only Palace player to make a century of appearances on each side of the war . |
| 9 | The ‘ elect ’ are saved from this just punishment because of a new ‘ covenant of grace ’ established in Jesus Christ : he fulfilled the terms of the covenant of works , bore the penalty for Adam 's breaking of it , and thus became the means of salvation for the elect . |
| 10 | Large companies took over others and thus became more ‘ transnational ’ in operation . |
| 11 | In 1854 Holford married Mary Anne , daughter of General James Lindsay , MP , of Balcarres , Fife , and thus became brother-in-law to three collectors , Alexander Crawford ( twenty-fifth Earl of Crawford ) , Robert Lindsay ( Baron Wantage ) [ qq.v. ] , and Sir Coutts Lindsay . |
| 12 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 13 | One week previously an independent member of the Országgyüles , Eva Balla , had joined the party and thus became the party 's first representative in parliament . |
| 14 | Among the other major changes ( i ) Gen. Sekou Ly was switched from National Education to Interior and Grassroots Development ( hitherto called Territorial Administration ) and thus became responsible for maintaining order ; ( ii ) Bakary Traoré , hitherto the Minister for Sports , Arts and Culture , became Minister of Education ; and ( iii ) Lt.-Col. Sambou Soumare entered the government as Minister of Justice . |
| 15 | His successor , Mehmet Yazar , formerly a Minister of State , was appointed on March 1 and thus became Turkey 's third Defence Minister since the start of the Gulf crisis [ see p. 37786 ] . |
| 16 | On Oct. 30 a controversial measure giving blanket immunity to anyone who had committed a politically motivated crime before Oct. 8 , 1990 [ see p. 39037 ] was approved by the President 's Council and thus became law , despite its having been rejected on Oct. 20 by the House of Delegates , the Indian chamber of the tricameral parliament . |
| 17 | After eradication of H pylori the acid output in the nine duodenal ulcer patients fell by a median of 66% ( range 30%-80% ) to a median value of 13.7 mmol/h ( range 6.2–24 ) ( p<0.01 ) and thus became similar to that of the H pylori positive healthy volunteers but remained higher than the H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( p<0.005 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 19 | He called meetings to solicit their views and thus began his own experiments with what was effectively community architecture . |
| 20 | The theorists were adamant , though , and thus began the hunt for the ‘ missing mass ’ — unobserved dark stuff that would bring W up to 1 . |
| 21 | The Argentinian hero then recommended Willie to Lee Trevino , and thus began Willie 's relationship with Supermex . |
| 22 | Its populace formed the nucleus of the mob that attacked the Bastille ( July 1789 ) , and thus began the French Revolution . |
| 23 | As the saying goes ‘ we clicked ’ and thus began a friendship and correspondence between Ella Shields and me over a period of years until her death in 1952 . |
| 24 | But behind this there lies a period , obscurely documented , in which there was far greater freedom and equality among the cities — an era brought to a sharp end by the threat of foreign conquest , which drew the Greek cities together in heroic resistance to the Persian invaders — and thus began the process which ended in the effective dominance of Sparta and Athens over their neighbours . |
| 25 | Charles Greville , into the hands of Paul Sandby ( 1725–1809 ) who , in 1775 , published Twelve Views in Aquatinta and thus began a vogue that reached its artistic peak with such artists as Thomas Malton ( 1748–1804 ) and William Daniell ( 1769–1837 ) , mentioned above . |
| 26 | The Elves landed and thus began the battle of the waves . |
| 27 | We now have the opportunity to move out of the hotel and to rent the house of a Professor of Biology , and thus to save on the high cost of the hotel . |
| 28 | When an insect alights on water , the surface is dimpled by its legs and thus extended and so the surface energy is increased . |
| 29 | Twelve months earlier , when Paris had been liberated , communist members of the Resistance in France had wanted to strike before the French army and de Gaulle arrived and thus present them with an accomplished fact . |
| 30 | It can also provide the rationale for arguing that certain perceptions and beliefs conceal real social contradictions and thus present an inadequate representation of reality . |