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

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1 This seems to suggest that for films with many moving objects or with high levels of subjective risk subjects ignored the fixed information in the recognition phase and were thus not biased by it .
2 The first years of nationalisation were thus regularly punctuated by government demands for consideration of rationing by price or by direct load limitation .
3 These restrictions , however , were vague and impossible to define accurately ; and the plenitude of royal power was thus little affected by them .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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