Example sentences of "[was/were] thus [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first graduates from degree courses validated by the CNAA were beginning to enter industry and the professions , and to study for postgraduate awards in the universities , and were thus establishing the credibility of CNAA degrees — including in non-science subjects . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They were thus driving the wedge further and further into a division of labour from which they were the first to suffer . |
| 4 | The novel effect of Mortmain was thus to extend the king 's supervision to alienations by his mesne tenants and , at least after 1299 , to raise money from this . |
| 5 | At the time I conjectured — and she said doubtfully that I might be right — that she was thus exorcizing the spirit of ‘ ferocity , brutality , violence ’ , which had tempted her artist in A Wreath of Roses away from her true world , and made her fearful of being ‘ ladylike , nostalgic , governessy ’ . |
| 6 | Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His aim was thus to keep the Herbert hegemony intact , while ensuring that it continued to be used in the royal interest . |
| 9 | His aim was thus to keep the Herbert hegemony intact , while ensuring that it continued to be used in the royal interest . |
| 10 | ‘ My heart was hot within me and while I was thus musing the fire kindled : and at the last I spake with my tongue … ’ |