Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] thus " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The treatments that were thus superseded have been touched upon in Chapter 2 , but suffice it to say that there was general and unqualified relief from both doctors and patients that they had passed . |
| 2 | I went there once , to see a place that was thus twice blessed , by histories both recent and more ancient . |
| 3 | As Allen Saddler 's notice so rightly says , many of the Labour MPs who swept to power in 1945 had come through J.P.M. 's schools and were thus well armed to fight for the legislation which so transformed society after the second world war . |
| 4 | They were only about forty miles behind the German lines and were thus much closer to the front line than was usual on their operations . |
| 5 | Hall argued , however , that even this least satisfactory outcome would be worth while if it meant some of the long-term unemployed in the inner cities obtained jobs , and were thus able to climb up the skills and income levels . |
| 6 | Certain authorities , originally identified by Sir Geoffrey Howe as potential recipients of enterprise zones in the 1980 Budget speech — notably Sheffield and Wolverhampton — were unable to reach agreement with the Treasury over this issue , and were thus not granted zones . |
| 7 | George Khoury and his colleagues , who recently announced in Science that mutations associated with cancer were to be found in the normal cells of a patient — and were thus probably inherited — turn out to have spoken too soon . |
| 8 | What is not in doubt is that many members failed to follow the professional path of Section 2f in the dispute , and were thus in breach of the Code of Professional Conduct . |
| 9 | By 1840 Poles were almost entirely absent from the lists of Danzig merchants , were only a small minority on the list of Danzig house-owners , and were thus almost totally excluded from public life and government of the city . |
| 10 | Refugee children naturally gravitated towards people showing them kindness , and were thus susceptible to proselytisation by their Gentile hosts . |
| 11 | Because the operators had been so heavily involved in the ‘ productionising ’ of the new technology and were thus extremely familiar with the technical possibilities of the machinery , they were in a strong position to negotiate higher rates than the time-study person would normally allow . |
| 12 | These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man . |
| 13 | In the nature of things , only a tiny minority had the control of , or access to , the press and were thus able to exercise this freedom . |
| 14 | For those who carried out the purges of the English cathedrals and parish churches during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the artistic objects they destroyed were synonymous with paganism and superstition , and were thus the antithesis of true religion . |
| 15 | Several researchers joined the group , masquerading as believers , and were thus present when midnight came and went without the prophecy being fulfilled . |
| 16 | In this discussion , Poulantzas relies on a counterfactual claim to defend his view that the peasantry had a pertinent effect at the political level — namely Bonapartism — and were thus a distinct class . |
| 17 | He and his officer rode at the head of their squadron , and were thus at the very tip of the advancing French army . |
| 18 | The threat , however , was apparent from the outset , for Montrose 's enemies the Campbells had been actively attempting to disappoint the duke 's recommendation , and were thus well placed to take full advantage of any subsequent trouble to strengthen Argyll 's following and weaken the interest of the family of Montrose . |
| 19 | On the French side although the Communists failed to form a government and were thus not in a position to change French policy towards Vietnam — whether they would have wanted to do so is not quite so clear — the impasse between them and the MRP had resulted in a caretaker government under the veteran Socialist party leader , Leon Blum ; and Blum , calling for an end to equivocation and an absolutely clear definition of policy , had urged not only confidence and friendship but ‘ sincere agreement ’ on the basis of Vietnamese independence . |
| 20 | This would be difficult to do if the chicks hatched at different times and were thus at different stages of development and strength . |
| 21 | Most of the Balkan Jews were of Iberian origin and were thus of the Sephardic branch of Jewry . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Eighteen ( 75% ) patients who received chemotherapy and eight ( 67% ) symptomatically treated patients completed at least two questionnaires on quality of life , including one at baseline , and were thus considered evaluable . |
| 24 | The theme running through Victorian Darwinistic science was that women were merely vehicles for reproduction and were thus nearer nature ( and the lower animals ) than men , but towards the end of the century a more positive view of motherhood emerged , largely as a result of eugenic concern about the quality of the race . |
| 25 | On Aug. 13 the government published a list of television companies which had been awarded official concessions and were thus entitled to continue broadcasting for the next six years beyond an Aug. 23 deadline . |
| 26 | The other two subject variables of interest were collected in a subsequent experiment and were thus available for only 25 of the subjects from this study . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 29 | In truth , as testimonies from both sides bear witness , the combatants felt that the outcome of the conflict was irreversibly decided in favour of the Nationalists in the winter of 1937 – 38 , when Franco 's forces gained control of the town of Teruel , in southern Aragón , and were thus poised to launch an offensive on Catalonia and Valencia . |
| 30 | Among other things , they had no fixed income , which was a definite stipulation , and were thus a definite threat to the older orders . |