Example sentences of "[was/were] thus [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prime Minister Ante Markovic , introducing the currency reform in line with a controversial IMF-backed package of economic austerity measures announced by him on Dec. 18 , 1989 , had said also that wage increases would be linked to the new dinar 's exchange rate , meaning that wages were thus effectively frozen for six months at November 1989 levels . |
| 2 | The threat , however , was apparent from the outset , for Montrose 's enemies the Campbells had been actively attempting to disappoint the duke 's recommendation , and were thus well placed to take full advantage of any subsequent trouble to strengthen Argyll 's following and weaken the interest of the family of Montrose . |
| 3 | As Allen Saddler 's notice so rightly says , many of the Labour MPs who swept to power in 1945 had come through J.P.M. 's schools and were thus well armed to fight for the legislation which so transformed society after the second world war . |
| 4 | The four elements of the offence of theft as defined in the Theft Act were thus clearly established and , in my view , the Court of Appeal was right to dismiss the appeal . |
| 5 | Fitzgerald 's plates were thus tactfully laden with theory , and contrast with other flower pictures which show decorative insects , or insect plates which show food plants . |
| 6 | Five coding genes for complex I subunits were thus either truncated ( ND1 , ND5 ) or lost completely ( ND4 , ND4L , ND6 ) . |
| 7 | The referendum results were thus automatically invalidated — the first time that this had happened . |
| 8 | Scarcely a churchyard was to be found but a number of those poor inocent birds were thus barberously treated . |
| 9 | George Khoury and his colleagues , who recently announced in Science that mutations associated with cancer were to be found in the normal cells of a patient — and were thus probably inherited — turn out to have spoken too soon . |
| 10 | The first years of nationalisation were thus regularly punctuated by government demands for consideration of rationing by price or by direct load limitation . |
| 11 | Arrests might rouse public sympathy for those who were thus apparently denied freedom of speech : |
| 12 | They were thus readily perceived as drags on the movement of the world towards greater political and economic freedom . |
| 13 | Harthacnut was thus evidently thought to have a claim , which his housecarls ( if they were not simply inherited from his father ) were perhaps in England to safeguard . |
| 14 | These restrictions , however , were vague and impossible to define accurately ; and the plenitude of royal power was thus little affected by them . |
| 15 | There was thus little organised public concern over the ethical treatment of animals until the formation of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , in Britain in 1822 and the United States in 1866 . |
| 16 | When polished it is also highly reflective and was thus widely used for mirrors . |
| 17 | The fact that the kadilik was thus closely tied to the secular government was unquestionably a source of some prejudice against it on the part of the more pious elements in the state . |
| 18 | The 1934 milk-in-schools scheme was thus closely bound up with wider questions of production targets , availability of supply and price fixing , supervised by the Milk Marketing Board . |
| 19 | The idea of an important division between the ‘ young old ’ and the ‘ old old ’ in today 's terms was thus already accepted . |
| 20 | It was thus well manured and amply repaid any work spent on it . |
| 21 | He was thus well fitted for his long stint as justiciar of Ireland ( 1245–56 ) , where he had private interests through the dower of his wife , Isabel ( daughter of Hugh Bigod , third Earl of Norfolk ) , who was the widow of Gilbert de Lacy of Meath . |
| 22 | She was thus well informed of the movements of her neighbours and managed to find out any gossip that was going . |
| 23 | Sleep efficiency was thus notably improved . |
| 24 | Emerging as the main beneficiary of the division within Solidarity , Tyminski had at first been considered a rank outsider and was thus largely ignored by the media and other candidates , but began to attract support with claims that he was untarnished by past politics and that as a self-made millionaire he had the economic acumen to transform the Polish economy . |
| 25 | Widowhood was thus duly recognised as an insurable risk — like unemployment or sickness — and widows ' benefit was introduced . |
| 26 | The area was thus unusually weighted towards agriculture , but it was only an exaggeration of the normal situation in all provincial regions . |
| 27 | The profound symbolism of the sacrament of unity was thus gravely impaired . |
| 28 | Fiennes 's sister , Mahaut , had married Humphrey de Bohun , earl of Hereford and constable of England , and was thus directly related to the English ruling house . |
| 29 | I went there once , to see a place that was thus twice blessed , by histories both recent and more ancient . |
| 30 | The notion of a career freely open to all talents was thus considerably stimulated by the provision of a fair , visibly fair , method of allocation . |