Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] thus [verb] " 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 | Thirteen schools were thus included in the survey . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This world with all its concerns was thus seen as but an ‘ ante-room ’ of heaven . |
| 7 | Farm workers were thus becoming increasingly dependent upon tied cottages , while other rural workers were faced by a declining pool of privately rented housing which was apparent in rural areas , as elsewhere , after successive Rent Acts had improved the security of tenants . |
| 8 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 9 | The films were thus split into sections of five seconds each , this interval appeared to be long enough to give subjects a feeling for what was going on while still allowing them to give fairly comprehensive descriptions of the objects and events contained within each film section . |
| 10 | Abortion of a male up to 40 days and a female up to 80 days was thus considered permissible until 1989 , when the Church adopted its current position — that the soul was infused at conception — which effectively outlaws abortion . |
| 11 | The retirement debate of the immediate post-war years was thus stimulated by a general awareness of the ageing of the population as a whole and of its work-force . |
| 12 | Given sufficient food males were thus distributed with the females in large groups forming a hierarchically ordered collective collaborating in protection . |
| 13 | Fears were thus expressed that , while the ratio of all dependents to the total population might be no greater in the immediate future than in the past , the cost per dependent had grown and would continue to grow . |
| 14 | Since the Harrods department store bombing of December 1983 [ see p. 32809 ] , the IRA had desisted from attacks on the mainland in which the public was directly endangered , and the station bombings were thus seen as marking a change in IRA tactics . |
| 15 | In that period 102 North Americans and 34 Britons were thus honoured . |
| 16 | Bespattered gym-slips were thus avoided . |
| 17 | The more sophisticated Greeks were thus made to regard man in pre-Trojan times as much the same as his distant offspring , and this tended to demythologize the Greek legends , thereby placing the past in quite a new perspective . |
| 18 | What had been separate sciences were thus unified . |
| 19 | And if those whose symbols were thus explained hotly denied the interpretations , that would simply be further proof . |
| 20 | His undergraduates were thus given a sense of the progression of medical knowledge , and of how it might develop in the future . |
| 21 | The two mills were thus run in tandem by Marling and Co from 1883 to 1920 , when they eventually sold out to P.C. Evans and Sons Ltd . |
| 22 | Two brochures were thus distributed . |
| 23 | The chain of unsavoury incidents in important matches was thus extended , deepening the sadness and resentment felt by cricket-lovers everywhere . |
| 24 | Health authorities were thus urged |
| 25 | Working hours were thus dictated by tides , and the mill can only operate at favourable times . |
| 26 | Artists were thus spared from the official ‘ aesthetic ’ interference but they remained financially dependent . |
| 27 | Elections were thus scheduled for Nov. 18 in these five constituencies , and in seven others where candidates had failed to get the necessary minimum number of votes in the July 29 elections [ see p. 37656 ] . |
| 28 | The 1990 local elections were thus treated by both politicians and commentators as providing not simply a test of the impact of the poll tax , but also a crucial verdict on Mrs Thatcher and her government . |
| 29 | The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second . |
| 30 | While the police were thus tied down , in the Garngad district there was ‘ an organised attempt at looting ’ . |