Example sentences of "[was/were] thus [vb pp] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Provisions of Oxford were thus quashed and declared null and void , while the King was to retain control over his choice of those counsellors , whether native or alien , whom he thought faithful and useful to him . |
| 2 | The notion of acquired distinctiveness was originally devised by theorists wedded to an associationist interpretation of all forms of learning ( Miller and Dollard ( 1941 ) , drawing heavily on the S-R theory of Hull ( e.g. 1939 ) ) , who were thus seen as offering an associative account of perceptual learning . |
| 3 | Since the Harrods department store bombing of December 1983 [ see p. 32809 ] , the IRA had desisted from attacks on the mainland in which the public was directly endangered , and the station bombings were thus seen as marking a change in IRA tactics . |
| 4 | It showed that more than 10% of normal pregnant women had two hour glucose concentrations after a 75 g glucose tolerance test of more than 8 mmol/l and were thus labelled as having impaired glucose tolerance . |
| 5 | Of the total sample of around 95,000 trees , 23.5 per cent were more than a quarter defoliated in 1992 , and were thus classified as damaged , compared with 22.2 per cent in 1991 . |
| 6 | These nuances were lost in the United Kingdom , where rock 'n' roll was seen as another exotic American import like chewing-gum or cowboy films ; its explosive sexuality was seen as the key selling point of this product like the X-tail-fin on a new Ford — rather than as a process , and was thus isolated and marketed accordingly . |
| 7 | A representative system of government , coupled with a division of powers , was thus seen as providing safeguards against the dangers of democracy . |