Example sentences of "were also active " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many members of the District 's branches , classes and courses were also active trade unionists ; some of these and many others were linked with the substantial Co-operative movement in the industrial centres . |
| 2 | They probably had a variety of different habits , some no doubt were scavengers , others sediment grazers , and it seems probable that some trilobites were also active hunters , pursuing worms and other soft-bodied prey , which they shredded using the spines on the base of their legs . |
| 3 | It is important to stress that the differences between , on the one side , the personnel of the brigades , Scouts , and clubs and , on the other , the reformers , should not be exaggerated , if only because many of the latter were also active in one or more of the organizations . |
| 4 | Loyalty , service , and duty were exactly the values which the ‘ boy labour ’ reformers sought to impress upon young workers , and as many of the reformers were also active , or had been active in one or more of the youth groups , they were sympathetic to the objectives of the Scout movement . |
| 5 | Consolidated Gold Fields Ltd and other companies were also active in South-west England during this period . |
| 6 | The Fabians , notably the Webbs , were also active advocates of municipalization . |
| 7 | Marsh Farm was built in the late 19th century by James Formby , the Formby family were well known in Halling during the whole of the 19th century through their connection with the cement industry and were also active members like the Linghams in village life . |
| 8 | Parliamentary opposition groups were also active in the anti-government protests , but their focus was on political regrouping following their defeat in the May 1990 elections , parliamentary opposition to government policies and political manoeuvring in response to NSF proposals to involve them in a government coalition . |
| 9 | In the South-west , Exeter became a major centre of cloth exports from the 1490s , and by the early sixteenth century some of the smaller Devon towns were also active in the trade , this perhaps contributing to the later growth of West Country shipping activity . |