Example sentences of "[was/were] thus [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of a number of key senior men appointed by the Minister and the Central Authority , ‘ personal allowances ’ to make up some or all of the difference were thus necessary to attract them . |
| 2 | The reconstruction of extinct species from fossil bones was often undertaken by museum workers , who were thus disposed to see development through time as the unfolding of purely formal relationships between successive species . |
| 3 | We were thus free to take the Cup to lunch , where , feeling better , the former rugby hooker , Jeffrey Bernard , pronounced himself happy that ‘ if England ca n't have the Cup , then at least it 's good that the Australians have it … anybody but the wretched French and the bloody Welsh , who never bought a drink for anybody in their life ’ . |
| 4 | On Aug. 13 the government published a list of television companies which had been awarded official concessions and were thus entitled to continue broadcasting for the next six years beyond an Aug. 23 deadline . |
| 5 | The conventions of the Hollywood combat movie , traditionally premised on a wholehearted public approval of participation and the inevitability of victory , were thus unable to cope with this unprecedented situation . |
| 6 | This could only be good news and we were thus able to turn our attention to even remoter areas of the north . |
| 7 | He withdrew striker Steve Flanagan and brought on young Sean Dowling at right-back , Farnham were thus able to rely on a strong midfield presence of Millard , Daly and May , with Deighan and Stairs looking to stretch Cranleigh wide on the flanks . |
| 8 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 9 | They were thus able to devote more attention to two increasingly critical areas . |
| 10 | We were thus able to control , to some extent , for socio-economic characteristics of the environment , and for the amount of policing . |
| 11 | We were thus able to compare the responses of teachers to the contrasting schemes of these two LEAs . |
| 12 | Other chemical manufacturers were thus able to install the tower . |
| 13 | Fortunately , they were thus able to agree on her name . |
| 14 | Given plenty of liquidity in the economy , these institutions , by offering higher interest rates than the clearing banks , attracted deposits and were thus able to expand their loans . |
| 15 | Hall argued , however , that even this least satisfactory outcome would be worth while if it meant some of the long-term unemployed in the inner cities obtained jobs , and were thus able to climb up the skills and income levels . |
| 16 | In the nature of things , only a tiny minority had the control of , or access to , the press and were thus able to exercise this freedom . |
| 17 | Glashow , Salam and Ward were thus able to show in 1959 that taking g equal to the electric charge e gave the mass M w in terms of the two fundamental constants e and Gv , in the same way that Maxwell demonstrated that the velocity of light was given in terms of the two fundamental constants of electricity and magnetism . |
| 18 | They were thus able to get the best of both worlds . |
| 19 | It was thus impossible to make the kind of pact that had been made with Clovis in France . |
| 20 | Mr Graham would always take the view that this ‘ dignity ’ was something like a woman 's beauty and it was thus pointless to attempt to analyse it . |
| 21 | Although Charles II had been restored to the leadership of the Anglican church as well as the English state , his own personal religious preference was for Roman Catholicism , and he was thus keen to maintain friendly relations with the dominant Catholic monarch in Europe , Louis XIV . |
| 22 | The administrative situation in Britain was thus favourable to change . |
| 23 | It was thus possible to assemble a bridge pier and lower it complete onto the river bed . |
| 24 | It was thus possible to balance the attraction of the matter with the repulsion of the cosmological term . |
| 25 | It was thus possible to write a program that allocated scores to all the possible legal moves in a given position . |
| 26 | It was thus necessary to reanimate local antislavery societies , renew the propaganda war , and once more undertake large-scale petitioning . |
| 27 | It was thus able to draw on the large reservoir of latent discontent among Liberals and the intellectuals which had been only slightly touched by the problem of unemployment and which was completely cut off from the syndicalist traditions of working class militancy in the previous decade . |
| 28 | The team was thus able to migrate from planning , through drafting and manufacture , to assembly and commissioning , with up to three exchanging roles at any time . |
| 29 | The ability to propagate cracks freely under a small stress was not wholly a disadvantage to primitive man who was thus able to shape flint and obsidian , which are more or less natural glasses , into various cutting tools . |
| 30 | He was thus able to acquire an unusually extensive knowledge for his day of ancient literature , including the works of St Augustine and the scientific writings of the elder Pliny . |