Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] had also been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other Latin American countries at various stages of the full or provisional accession process at the end of 1989 were El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras and Paraguay ( for this last country see p. 36688 ) , while working parties had also been established on requests for accession by Tunisia ( which had acceded provisionally in 1960 ) , Bulgaria ( see p. 35030 ) and Algeria . |
| 2 | A 5th sheep belonging to a farmer in another field had also been attacked with a knife and beaten to death . |
| 3 | From the 1840s public anxiety had also been focused on prostitution , the ‘ great social evil ’ , by studies from evangelical clerics and medics , and by rescue and reform societies campaigning for a police crackdown on the London streets . |
| 4 | But progress against stubborn German resistance in thickly forested terrain had also been slow ; and when Vlasov arrived to take personal command 2nd Shock Army was itself surrounded by a German counter-attack . |
| 5 | German minesweepers had also been sent to the Gulf to clear mines and two German navy planes were reportedly helping with cleaning up the oil slick there . |
| 6 | An unspoken reason for her attempted escape had also been the growing certainty that this attraction was coming to a head . |
| 7 | The political winds had also been blowing from a different and more conservative direction . |
| 8 | The preceding weeks had also been punctuated by strikes . |
| 9 | Anti-drug teams had also been formed to co-ordinate local initiatives in seven of the UK 's worst-affected urban areas . |
| 10 | To rally support the government had raised the pay of military personnel by 20 per cent in 1989 , and civil servants had also been awarded pay rises . |
| 11 | Similar legislation had also been passed by the Senate , but , reluctant to approve similarly large pay increases for itself , the Senate had voted to reduce gradually the annual total of honoraria which its members could receive [ see also p. 37037 ] . |
| 12 | A Welsh Anti-Nuclear Alliance had also been busy campaigning since 1980 , particularly over plans to expand the two nuclear power station sites at Trawsfynydd and Wylfa in North Wales . |
| 13 | The government claimed that 10 guerrillas had been killed for the loss of 12 soldiers , with 66 others wounded , and that three civilians had also been killed and an estimated 50 more wounded . |
| 14 | The most southerly of the three enclosures had also been subdivided , although little of its eastern half lay within the trench . |
| 15 | In Jammu and Kashmir , local politician 's daughter Nahida Imtiaz Soz , kidnapped in Srinagar on Feb. 27 by the Jammu and Kashmir Student Liberation Front , was freed on March 8 in return for the release of an imprisoned " Pakistani-trained militant " , Mushtaq Ahmed ; three policemen had also been abducted in an effort to secure the release of five separatist activists . |
| 16 | Dissident Colorados had also been instrumental in securing the passage , by a majority of one , of a proposal that the President should not be able to transfer his powers as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces . |
| 17 | From 1973 the Health Protection and Environment Directorates of the European Commission had also been working on measures to control wastes and ‘ trace ’ substances in water : they adopted a 50mg/litre nitrate limit for the 1980 Directive Relating to the Quality of Water Intended for Human Consumption ( 80/778/EEC ) , which also controls pesticides and metals . |
| 18 | A ban on the import of luxury goods had also been lifted on Oct. 9 , 1989 , as a result of an improvement in foreign exchange reserves . |
| 19 | To demolish enemy fortifications , heavy guns had also been developed . |
| 20 | Israeli forces had also been active in Lebanon during the earlier part of May . |
| 21 | Considerable opposition to one-party rule had also been registered by the churches , the trade union movement and students , as well as by the opposition parties . |
| 22 | After his partner in a film production company was arrested for financial fraud , it turned out that the charming , fast-talking McDevitt had also been convicted in a bungled 1980 art robbery that mirrored the Gardner theft . |
| 23 | In 1947 when Frank had his insight the existence of muons had already been known for ten years and the existence of muonic atoms had also been predicted . |
| 24 | Leeds 's opening try in the 12th minute had also been a fine effort , spread over 70 yards and involving Schofield , Maskill and Izzard before Coleman went for the corner . |
| 25 | In recent months bilateral relations had also been concerned with the withdrawal , due to be completed by December 1994 , of more than 370,000 Soviet troops from eastern Germany . |
| 26 | Serious doubts about the integrity of the electoral system had also been expressed by the Guyana Human Rights Association ( GHRA ) and the United States Congress , which in October had voted to withhold US$600,000 in economic aid pending evidence of electoral reform . |
| 27 | Nine soldiers had also been killed in a PKK attack later on Dec. 24 . |
| 28 | While all this had been happening , 249 Squadron had also been launched from ‘ Ark Royal ’ , also led by Fulmars . |
| 29 | Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece . |
| 30 | Before the mid-650s the Anglian frontier had also been extended to include Iudeu or Giudi , identified as probably Stirling ; Oswiu retreated here on the eve of the battle of the Winwaed ( HB chs 64 , 65 ) . |