Example sentences of "and thus [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Second World War — during which time Fred served as a Special in the Metropolitan Police and later in the Royal Artillery — he put in another 111 League appearances and thus became the only Palace player to make a century of appearances on each side of the war . |
| 2 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 3 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 4 | Its populace formed the nucleus of the mob that attacked the Bastille ( July 1789 ) , and thus began the French Revolution . |
| 5 | Nominated by his dying brother as Lord High Protector of the realm during the boy king 's minority , he had just returned from Scotland where , at the head of a powerful army , he had re-taken Berwick in his brother 's name and thus nullified the Scottish King 's threat of a full-scale invasion . |
| 6 | In this reply the United States undertook to take certain action at the request of either or both of the parties in the event of an actual or threatened violation of the agreement , and thus guaranteed the continued observance of the Peace Treaty . |
| 7 | Southport Railway Centre also ran its usual trains , again using the LMS Brakevans , over the Spring Bank Holiday , and thus had the unusual , possibly unique distinction of being the only preservation organisation running trains on its own lines and also on another , privately owned line at the same time . |
| 8 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 9 | I say unwittingly because originally the second nine was intended to be the first , but this was changed and thus gave the second nine its water-strewn flavour . |
| 10 | It could be that the play 's audiences were more content with a version which conformed more readily with recognised long-repeated models for understanding the world , and thus preferred the longer B version of Faustus . |
| 11 | The pruning methods therefore had to cut out a band that was neither too narrow ( and thus pruned the correct solution ) nor too broad ( resulting in a combinatorial explosion of hypotheses ) . |
| 12 | And thus did the big tour continue . |
| 13 | The resulting Berlin-Budapest axis prevented any real hope of a rapprochement between Paris and Vienna and thus completed the virtual isolation of France in Europe . |
| 14 | As agreed in August 1988 [ see pp. 36294-95 ] New Zealand and Australia on July 1 , 1990 , abolished all remaining barriers to trade and thus completed the closer economic relations ( CER ) agreement which provided for completely free trade in goods , services and other commercial dealings between the two countries . |