Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Practitioners of the art will certainly want their own copies ; but it would be a great pity of its readership were thus restricted . |
| 2 | The more directly comprehensible parts of the Challenger 's programme were thus made available to the public at a provisional stage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The subject 's response time per card was thus calculated . |
| 6 | The research programme was thus to have a broad base to provide broadly applicable results . |
| 7 | The need for research was thus recognised . |
| 8 | She maintained that bad headhunting practice was thus allowed to continue unchecked . |
| 9 | A quite enormous splitting action was thus obtained which was also directional depending upon the positioning of the feathers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The nature of the action was thus stated by Lord Mansfield , at p. 205 : |
| 12 | Strike action was thus called off on May 7 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The cycle of modification was thus completed with approved modules of acceptable quality returned to LIFESPAN . |
| 16 | Korean independence was thus liquidated and Korea was rendered an integral part of the Japanese empire . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Theology was thus transformed back into anthropology . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Disciplines that we now accept as having thrown much light on the evolutionary process were thus introduced originally as alternatives to nineteenth-century ‘ Darwinism ’ . |
| 21 | However , a successful outcome was apparently virtually guaranteed and the deceased was thus declared to be " true of voice " or " justified " . |
| 22 | The CTRN considered most of its work to be complete following progress at the end of 1991 in legislation relating to political parties and the press , and its membership was thus cut from 36 to 15 . |
| 23 | The tumour was thus classified as pT2 pN0 M0 . |
| 24 | This year , the world championships did not visit Newquay , and the town was thus deprived of an event that spearheaded much of the hype . |
| 25 | A new tradition of retirement was thus consolidated during the period . |
| 26 | The publication of the paper in Nature was thus accompanied by a press conference at Harwell , which was held in the hall where Kurchatov had spoken nearly two years earlier . |
| 27 | His aim was thus to keep the Herbert hegemony intact , while ensuring that it continued to be used in the royal interest . |
| 28 | His aim was thus to keep the Herbert hegemony intact , while ensuring that it continued to be used in the royal interest . |
| 29 | Whilst the form of indirect tax was thus harmonized on the VAT model , the base ( the collection of goods upon which it is levied ) still needs to be brought into line . |
| 30 | But the way to safety was thus signposted . |