Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] thus [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | The dissenters who met in these new places of worship belonged to a Puritan tradition which disapproved of the decoration of churches , and the interiors of meeting-houses were thus kept bare and plain . |
2 | Practitioners of the art will certainly want their own copies ; but it would be a great pity of its readership were thus restricted . |
3 | Thirteen schools were thus included in the survey . |
4 | The more directly comprehensible parts of the Challenger 's programme were thus made available to the public at a provisional stage . |
5 | The organizational changes at Ayr were thus introduced in the context of this potential crisis . |
6 | On Feb. 11 the National Assembly approved legislation abolishing the last remaining centrally fixed food prices ; nearly all retail prices in Hungary were thus liberalized . |
7 | If the photon 's momentum were thus determined the electron 's uncertainty Δp could be made as small as we pleased , thus beating , it would seem , the restriction [ 2 ] In fact this does not work because we have to treat the microscope as also subject to quantum mechanical uncertainty . |
8 | By 1362 , however , hostilities had ceased and the French king was a prisoner of the English ; papal taxation on this occasion was certainly destined for Edward 's coffers , but this was to meet the ransom of John II : the English clergy were thus taxed by the pope to enrich the English king and spare the French taxpayers ! |
9 | When determining their poll tax levies , districts were thus faced with already agreed demands from the counties , and their own precepts actually made up only a small proportion of the total amount community charge payers were required to pay . |
10 | Colinvaux therefore suggests that the so-called refugia were thus denied to some rain-forest species presently there , i.e. the supposed migrations to them of lowland species in inducing today 's diversity is questionable . |
11 | The subject 's response time per card was thus calculated . |
12 | The need for research was thus recognised . |
13 | She maintained that bad headhunting practice was thus allowed to continue unchecked . |
14 | A quite enormous splitting action was thus obtained which was also directional depending upon the positioning of the feathers . |
15 | Kaunda had already made known his strong preference for retaining the one-party system ; his action was thus seen as an attempt to appease critics of his regime , particularly among the trade union and business communities . |
16 | The nature of the action was thus stated by Lord Mansfield , at p. 205 : |
17 | Strike action was thus called off on May 7 . |
18 | The terrors of the workhouse were thus extended beyond the portals of death ; for the least favoured section of the population there waited the ultimate humiliation of dissection by medical students , a fate hitherto reserved for convicted murderers . |
19 | The huntsman could then claim the dragon 's treasure hoard , and it is said that many of the noble houses of England were thus financed . |
20 | Alexander 's interests and those of Athens were thus opposed ( which did not stop him from minting copiously in coinage designed for easy trade with Athens ) , and the opposition was inherited by every Macedonian king till Philip , who ended it by seizing Amphipolis for good . |
21 | It would be a good idea , he pointed out to the noble lord , to buy a large freehold estate and divide it into twelve , creating twelve new freeholders who would be entitled to a vote each because of the property qualification ; he hastened to add that he would personally make sure that only suitable Tory adherents were thus enfranchised . |
22 | Law was thus besieged with demands that he should retreat to a compromise position as Balfour had done in 1910 , and again these demands came from tariff reformers as well as free-traders . |
23 | Sumner was thus introduced to the Arts and Crafts Movement , and became a keen member for the next twenty years . |
24 | This world with all its concerns was thus seen as but an ‘ ante-room ’ of heaven . |
25 | The cycle of modification was thus completed with approved modules of acceptable quality returned to LIFESPAN . |
26 | Korean independence was thus liquidated and Korea was rendered an integral part of the Japanese empire . |
27 | A higher level of activator was thus required in dolomite compared to calcite , due to the more efficient luminescence of Mn 2 + when present in the Ca 2 + lattice sites than when substituting Mg 2 + sites . |
28 | Theology was thus transformed back into anthropology . |
29 | The GLC and MCCs were thus weakened from the start and regarded as far too small for some purposes and too large for others . |
30 | Battle experience largely validated Pollen 's technical and tactical views , and key members of his pre-war design team were thus charged with the development of the Royal Navy 's post-war fire-control systems . |