Example sentences of "was thus [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issuance of multiple copies was thus intended to assure that the consignee received at least one . |
| 2 | It was thus intended to have a much wider appeal than the old Catholic Centre Party , which gradually faded away after the war . |
| 3 | The difficulty of using this form of patronage whose scarcity could give offence to those who were unlucky is illustrated by the difficulties of the Duke of Montrose and his son , Lord George Graham , in 1739–40 , when Lord George , who hoped to combine a career as a naval officer with membership in the House of Commons , first obtained command of a ship , and was thus enabled to offer places in the line of command to the sons of freeholders in the area of Montrose influence in central Scotland . |
| 4 | Any attempt to use the scriptures to vindicate the slave trade was thus bound to provoke energetic efforts by abolitionists to controvert the arguments ; failure to do so would have yielded an authority to the pro-slave trade position by sacrificing one of the main ways religious reformers had of grasping the essential spirit of the Christian moral order . |
| 5 | Study 5 was thus conducted to allow some quantification of the actual information contained in the stimuli that were used in Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 6 | The bourgeois family model with its breadwinning husband and dependent wife and children was thus believed to secure male work incentives . |
| 7 | One of the most important elements of the project design was the intention to employ locally recruited people ( as in the Kent project ; see later in this chapter ) to provide any extra care needed ; local recruitment was important for it was thus hoped to build on , or build up , neighbourhood contacts around the dementia sufferer and his or her family . |
| 8 | The addition of an associative procedure to this modeller was thus seen to provide the Possibility of a truly automated kinematic assembly process . |
| 9 | Deer , which were hunted by the rich therefore came to be associated with affluence ; and the peony , which was cultivated in the gardens of the nobility , was thus seen to symbolize the rank , wealth and well-being that accompanied this station in life . |
| 10 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 11 | The vesicle preparation was thus found to contain 13.9 µg palmitic acid and 11.5 µg oleic acid/ml . |
| 12 | It was thus proposed to organise two workshops on this topic for the 19th century , one on the trade across the Indian Ocean , and a later one on the trans-Saharan trade . |
| 13 | He was thus encouraged to believe that the Cambridge Board entertained some doubt over the strength of its case for unilateral action and was therefore anxious to reach a negotiated agreement with the WEA prior to making any application for additional Chapter III providing powers . |
| 14 | She maintained that bad headhunting practice was thus allowed to continue unchecked . |
| 15 | Chlamydial infection was thus shown to have similarities to gonorrhoea in this respect . |
| 16 | Makarenko was thus driven to take the law into his own hands in order to survive , but his pupils needed no encouragement in this respect , since they themselves were the product of a disturbed society . |
| 17 | It was thus forced to participate in elections under the cover of front parties , currently the Socialist Labour Party . |
| 18 | The Independent Labour Party was thus forced to accept full responsibility for continuing the dispute . |
| 19 | The proud Count of Barcelona was thus forced to recognize the abilities of the man whose service he had once refused . |
| 20 | The mean accident estimate was thus used to split the data into the ‘ junctions with the highest accident estimates and the 23 with the lowest ( 3 junctions with the median score of 2.3 were not included in this analysis ) . |
| 21 | Care was thus taken to ensure that the sequence of sentences was now completely random ; even if any particular combination happened to match the original it would have been entirely due to chance . |