Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] thus " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dissenters who met in these new places of worship belonged to a Puritan tradition which disapproved of the decoration of churches , and the interiors of meeting-houses were thus kept bare and plain . |
| 2 | Practitioners of the art will certainly want their own copies ; but it would be a great pity of its readership were thus restricted . |
| 3 | Thirteen schools were thus included in the survey . |
| 4 | Debates in the Commons on the industry were thus inevitably general , trivial and partisan , but Ministers often preferred this situation to detached scrutiny by a more expert parliamentary committee . |
| 5 | The revenue were thus aware from the outset that the validity of their demand was being challenged . |
| 6 | The rulers of the Regno were thus of prime interest to the popes . |
| 7 | The more directly comprehensible parts of the Challenger 's programme were thus made available to the public at a provisional stage . |
| 8 | The organizational changes at Ayr were thus introduced in the context of this potential crisis . |
| 9 | Professional/client relationships were thus inevitably one-sided with all the power and knowledge ( at least that which was perceived as relevant ) resting with the medical profession . |
| 10 | Other chemical manufacturers were thus able to install the tower . |
| 11 | ( 1984 , experiment 1b ) gave rats tone-shock pairings in one context , intermixed with sessions of exposure to a second context ; the subjects were thus fully familiar with the second context but had no experience of conditioning procedures in it . |
| 12 | On Feb. 11 the National Assembly approved legislation abolishing the last remaining centrally fixed food prices ; nearly all retail prices in Hungary were thus liberalized . |
| 13 | If the photon 's momentum were thus determined the electron 's uncertainty Δp could be made as small as we pleased , thus beating , it would seem , the restriction [ 2 ] In fact this does not work because we have to treat the microscope as also subject to quantum mechanical uncertainty . |
| 14 | The story of commercial co-option is familiar in pop history but the terms in which the story is told change , and Paul Morley 's words about Frankie were thus more important than Frankie themselves . |
| 15 | By 1362 , however , hostilities had ceased and the French king was a prisoner of the English ; papal taxation on this occasion was certainly destined for Edward 's coffers , but this was to meet the ransom of John II : the English clergy were thus taxed by the pope to enrich the English king and spare the French taxpayers ! |
| 16 | When determining their poll tax levies , districts were thus faced with already agreed demands from the counties , and their own precepts actually made up only a small proportion of the total amount community charge payers were required to pay . |
| 17 | Colinvaux therefore suggests that the so-called refugia were thus denied to some rain-forest species presently there , i.e. the supposed migrations to them of lowland species in inducing today 's diversity is questionable . |
| 18 | By dethroning Ferdinand Napoleon turned the revolution of Aranjuez against himself : the rising against Napoleon was thus , in part , a revolution of disappointed hopes . |
| 19 | In the final analysis , religion was thus to be seen as the emotionally charged product of intense social interaction ( 'collective effervescence' ) — esprit de corps elevated to the metaphysical plane . |
| 20 | The subject 's response time per card was thus calculated . |
| 21 | Thurii was thus not a straightforward piece of Athenian imperialism . |
| 22 | Aaron the priest was thus the spokesman , even though the authority was that of Moses . ) |
| 23 | The research programme was thus to have a broad base to provide broadly applicable results . |
| 24 | The need for research was thus recognised . |
| 25 | The economic realities meant that Prussia 's weight was thus far greater than the constitutional arrangements suggested : the Zollverein was administered by a sort of Council of Ministers which met annually in one of the capitals , and it took decisions by unanimity . |
| 26 | The ceremony was thus quite depressing when I had to sit and listen to a boring , unknown , dreary , old codger who was ‘ GIVEN ’ an honorary degree — which course did he attend ? |
| 27 | She maintained that bad headhunting practice was thus allowed to continue unchecked . |
| 28 | Decolonization was thus the decisive route to proletarian revolution in Europe . |
| 29 | In making Gloucester chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , Edward was thus effectively putting him at the head of the surviving royal affinity there . |
| 30 | In making Gloucester chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , Edward was thus effectively putting him at the head of the surviving royal affinity there . |