Example sentences of "[was/were] also a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand from some of my students that their OT banks were also a useful source of questions for playing ‘ Strip accountancy ’ . |
| 2 | Station Officer Steven Sansbury said unattended pans of food on cookers were also a major cause of fire deaths and smoke detectors would lead to more safety in the home . |
| 3 | In 1963 , the BBC was allocated a second TV channel ( BBC 2 ) and by the end of the decade there were also a large number of local , commercial , and non-commercial , radio stations . |
| 4 | There were also a whole range of ways in which children could contribute to the household economy through domestic labour and child care , both within their own households , and as part of the pattern of exchange between kin and neighbours . |
| 5 | Once policy had been hammered out — and sometimes before it had — there were also a whole series of committees with representatives from the regions who needed to be consulted and informed on the views of headquarters . |
| 6 | But there were also a fair number of ‘ imported ’ protesters , in Leipzig on Monday , including rightwing skinheads and supporters of the CDU youth wing . |
| 7 | Grandchildren could be used to help when small , and there were also a few instances of a grandchild moving in during adulthood . |
| 8 | Nicolae 's sister , Elena Barbulescu , who administered the family 's birthplace like a feudal domain , was also a typical representative of this corrupt élite . |
| 9 | There was also a deep sense of isolation amongst professional development teachers who regretted the lack of mutual support which arts advisers were able to enjoy through regional subject meetings with HMI . |
| 10 | The abrogation of article 6 was also a key demand of striking miners in the Arctic coalfields . |
| 11 | There was also a certain amount of frustration involved , we were trying to diversify musically and our audience did n't seem in the least bit interested . |
| 12 | There was also a certain amount of natural fun and horseplay in the maltings themselves when the foreman or piece-walker was out of sight . |
| 13 | Thus , at Montrose , Boswell took a sharp likeness , in which we see the other side of the opinionated , often pompous , astonishingly patronising Johnson , the man with a statement on everything , the clumping , farting , knob-faced denouncer ; Johnson was also a thoughtful man of good manners and pensiveness , a quiet , reflective , astute man who had been knocked around . |
| 14 | In addition to the full-time staff there was also a part-time staff of ten women teachers . |
| 15 | There was also a great spirit of unity among the workers and , although the statements were coloured with rhetoric , it was emphasized that at Wolverhampton , ‘ The whole of the workers stood firm and were prepared to fight to the bitter end ’ and that at Hull there was ‘ Alarm — fear — despair — a victorious army disarmed and handed over to its enemies . ’ |
| 16 | He was also a great friend of ACHILLES , whom he taught music and hunting ; according to ancient myth , Chiron taught Achilles to run so swiftly by setting him to chase wild deer and eat their raw flesh . |
| 17 | He was also a great supporter of both the Medics ' and Dentists ' Football Club and the Medical Students ' Rugby Club . |
| 18 | There were photographs and postcard and letters pinned up and pasted on tables and walls , and amongst these more adult decorations , there was also a great quantity of carefully arranged and ancient toys , of a precise and coloured charm ; there was a doll 's house , a glass jar of marbles , a toy iron on a small brass stand , a heap of rag dolls , a row of painted wooden Russian dolls , a nest of coloured eggs , a tower of bricks , a weather house , a huge pendant snowstorm globe containing a small palace and a small forest with small ferny trees . |
| 19 | But he was also a great admirer of Michael Banks , who was his dream casting for the role , and , unless one introduced very tortuous psychopathology , for him to murder the star was utterly unlikely . |
| 20 | In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand . |
| 21 | He was also a great lover of grand and light opera , and ever since his seminary days had enjoyed producing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for performance by amateur groups . |
| 22 | There was also a great deal of experimental music . |
| 23 | There was also a great deal of indignation among ordinary British citizens who discovered for the first time after the massacre in Timişoara that Romania was ruled by a brutal tyrant who enjoyed the privileges of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath . |
| 24 | There was also a great deal of debate about : the need to popularise knowledge , utilising aspects of working-class and popular culture in adult education ; the problem of linking adult education more effectively to social and economic issues in local communities ; the necessity for greater informality and flexibility in the provision of adult education ; the importance of community-based adult education initiatives ; the challenge of creating new educational ‘ networks ’ to provide a comprehensive community education service linking a range of education providers , formal and non-formal , to the needs and interests of working-class communities . |
| 25 | There was also a continued fear of the spread of Communism , particularly by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 26 | Kneeling at the " mercy seat " , a bench at the front of the hall where people are called in penitence and dedication , was also a regular part of their experience . |
| 27 | It was in this way that Havard first came to hear many of Tolkien 's tales , David Cecil 's Two Quiet Lives , and reflections on Dante by Colin Hardie ( who taught Classics at Magdalen and was also a regular member of the circle ) , as well as many of Lewis 's own works . |
| 28 | He was also a prominent member of the Woolhope Naturalists Field Club , a well-respected society mainly devoted to the archaeology of Herefordshire . |
| 29 | Born in Stanley , County Durham , he was also a prominent member of Greenbank Methodist Church where his friends included Sir Charles Starmer and Ald. C.H. Leach . |
| 30 | But there was also a long list of failures . |