Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British were thus pushing against half-open doors when they recommended a compromise . |
| 2 | Of the 176 single-member constituencies , only five had been settled by overall majority in the first round [ ibid. ] and the remaining 171 were thus settled in the April 8 poll . |
| 3 | The net effect of the Acts of 1918 and 1921 was thus to improve the Unionist position by a hundred seats , not just in that parliament but in every succeeding one too . |
| 4 | Study 5 was thus conducted to allow some quantification of the actual information contained in the stimuli that were used in Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 5 | In all , some 700 000 out of a population of three million were thus eliminated . |