Example sentences of "[was/were] thus [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , in two of the earliest reports on this subject , many gluten sensitised subjects were considered subjectively to have an abnormal rectal mucosa and were thus presumed to be showing a local immune response to dietary gluten proteins .
2 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 .
3 These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man .
4 Only if its list vote fell to 33.3% , incredibly 9.1 points below its constituency vote , and its overall entitlement were thus reduced to 20 seats , would Labour have just one excess seat .
5 He took the effect of a deformation occurring at time for a period d to be proportional to and was thus led to his superposition integral which in modern terminology is
6 An organism 's phenotype was thus believed to be almost entirely accounted for by the sum of these two apparently independent variables .
7 The peace of society was thus assimilated to the sacrament ; it was enacted as both the condition and the effect of the reality of Christ 's presence .
8 However , a successful outcome was apparently virtually guaranteed and the deceased was thus declared to be " true of voice " or " justified " .
9 Sumner was thus introduced to the Arts and Crafts Movement , and became a keen member for the next twenty years .
10 Independence , in so far as this entailed freedom from obligation to a politician , was thus restricted to men with independent wealth and few dependents , but for most freeholders the friendship of a politician was a necessity at some point in their lives .
11 It was thus held to be as authentic an image of the society within which it was produced as the gift , whose authenticity was premised upon its own totalizing ability .
12 Apart from syndicalism , whose appeal was thus confined to limited and peculiarly class-conscious districts , the total domination of the Labour Party had been challenged before 1914 by a variety of organizations representing two important traditions , ILP " independent socialism " and Marxism .
13 Henry 's eldest son married Agnes , Barbarossa 's niece and the Guelph and Ghibelline feud was thus brought to a close .
14 The surplus heat was thus put to good use and the drying ovens were no longer needed .
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