Example sentences of "thus could not be " in BNC.

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1 A proportion of the cells without Bcl-2 died before undergoing division , as previously described , and thus could not be scored .
2 At the time of the institution of the main proceedings , the applicants ' 95 fishing vessels failed to satisfy one or more of the conditions for registration under section 14 of the Act of 1988 and thus could not be registered in the new register .
3 The existence of distinct geographical provinces thus could not be explained in terms of climate .
4 The Swedish Prime Minister , Carl Bildt , justly complained that ‘ membership has unspecified potential obligations ’ , and that Sweden thus could not be expected to make binding assurances that she would participate in a common defence policy which has not yet been defined .
5 that some of the material on the computerised systems in question met the statutory definition of records and thus could not be destroyed without the approval of the Archivist .
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