Example sentences of "they [was/were] also [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the mobility required of them as deputies in battle for the king , they were also kept in attendance at their father 's court at Aachen for long periods of time . |
| 2 | In the Adam period they were also shaped like urns , with ring handles and a knopped-lid , and an aperture at the spout to accommodate the ladle . |
| 3 | If the ‘ Hooligans ’ were regarded as an un-English phenomenon , they were also understood as an entirely unprecedented development and respectable England felt itself to have been suddenly engulfed in a new rush of crime . |
| 4 | The Conservatives ' advantage over Labour in the post-election survey is nearly double what it was in 1964 and treble what it was as recently as on Tuesday and Wednesday last week : 1964Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Now Conservatives ' best 45 45 43 44 45 52 Labour best 34 37 38 38 38 31 Con advantage+11 +8 +5 +6 +7+21 While the Tories were triumphing on the issues , they were also triumphing on the matter of personal leadership . |
| 5 | People were asked what crimes they had been victims of ( victim study ) and about their own law-breaking ( self-report study ) , and they were also asked about their attitudes towards the police and policing . |
| 6 | They were also sighted at a London recording studio preparing new material scheduled for release early next year . |
| 7 | I remember Ivy telling me that she and Margaret were ill for a fortnight when something of the sort threatened them — and I doubt if they were also blasted in the affections … . |
| 8 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 9 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 10 | In times of civil disturbance they were also called upon to help in maintaining the king 's peace , as when in June 1234 the foresters of fee of all the royal forests of England were commanded to aid the sheriffs in arresting the malefactors who were roaming over the countryside as a result of the disturbances created by the Earl Marshal and his adherents . |
| 11 | They were also hampered from leaving Edinburgh to work in printing on war contracts elsewhere by the dilution agreements of 1934 . |
| 12 | These scholars tended — seemingly without giving much thought to the matter — to accept the standard ideology and the doctrine of uniformity that is associated with it ; indeed , as we have noticed in chapter 3 , they were also influenced by ideological positions which they believed to be ‘ common sense ’ . |
| 13 | Boro 's magnificent performance , and the backing of their fans , made it a memorable night , on which they were also denied by the fingertips of Danish international goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel , who made a superb save from Willie Falconer in extra time . |
| 14 | They were also hit with a mop and a chair leg by some of the staff during the brawl on September 25 last year . |
| 15 | And they were also hit by a further £25,000 fine for an ‘ irregular payment ’ to a player . |
| 16 | They were also startling in their fierce , fluent grace . |
| 17 | They were also fitted with a pressure heating and ventilating system . |
| 18 | Eleven Clay Cross councillors were surcharged for the money which would have been obtained had the Act been implemented and they were also disqualified from holding public office for a period . |
| 19 | They were also employed in making various inquiries in the forest . |
| 20 | Mozart probably played them himself , being a highly competent fiddler : we know that they were also played by the Italian konzertmeister at Salzburg , Antonio Brunetti . |
| 21 | They were also hoping by these means to avoid causing resentment at infringement of separate national sovereignties which would be a possible result if they enlisted the aid of the British government . |
| 22 | If such arguments sound familiar , it is because they were also voiced by Mr Akers . |
| 23 | Curiously , the Phaeacians , the legendary people in the Odyssey who sound like the Minoans in so many ways , were described as the kings of sea-craft ; they were also credited with sailing galleys with fifty oars , in other words , larger ships than Bury credits the Homeric Greeks with possessing . |
| 24 | They were also highlighted in reports by the fire brigade , police , and Railway Fire Prevention and Fire Safety Standards Committee . ’ |
| 25 | Identical twins were supposed to be very close to each other , and as they were also born under Gemini there was a double bond . |
| 26 | The flaw in this disposition was that the advancing Germans were not only more numerous than the Allies had supposed but they were also moving in a more extended arc than had been expected . |
| 27 | They were subsequently banned by law from 1734 until 1860 ; they were also banned between 1939 and 1958 as part of the measures deemed necessary for the prosecution of the Second World War . |
| 28 | The field workers gained first-hand knowledge of the frustrations and weaknesses of welfare pluralism , but they were also encouraged by experience of its strengths . |
| 29 | Scientists were unsure however whether they were also to blame for severe fogs reported in parts of Malaysia , Singapore , the Philippines and Thailand . |
| 30 | Even on weekdays there were problems in booking caddies because members who , say , arrived at lunchtime might discover that all the caddies were out on the course , and there was no way of telling whether they were also booked for the afternoon ! |