Example sentences of "as [pers pn] also [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 2 | I am sure that the Minister will be aware — representing a rural area , as I also do — that there is considerable concern about closures and amalgamations that lead to both defendants and witnesses having to travel vast distances . |
| 3 | It is n't always easy for anyone to get to the bottom of every detail of a bill er which refers to earlier legislation and erm er er I 'm sure that my Noble Friend would sympathise anyhow erm er er w with with me insofar as I also do not have the advantage of er legal qualifications which he manages to make up for most adequately . |
| 4 | ‘ He has lately recovered his childhood faith , ’ Everard explained , ‘ as I also did some years ago . ’ |
| 5 | As long as you also stick to your diet , weight loss will occur . |
| 6 | ‘ Sir , ’ Athelstan retorted , ‘ I think you do , as you also know about the seed cake . ’ |
| 7 | You blame him for saddling Barclays de Zoete Wedd with high overhead costs in putting our brokerage firm and our banking operations together in one building , a building which houses a number of our competitors , as you also point out . |
| 8 | It was true , she knew , that dragons were huge and fierce and wild and mysterious ; but it was also true , as she also knew , that not everything that was huge and fierce and wild and mysterious was necessarily evil , necessarily wanted to kill you . |
| 9 | Lindsey smiled as she also rose to her feet . |
| 10 | She was an attractive and popular figure with her large blue eyes and shock of thick hair , bobbed in the fashion she had set , as she also did that of using her surname alone . |
| 11 | As we also noticed in chapter 3 , we can not predict the full membership of the set on phonological grounds . |
| 12 | Which was good news for START ( Skin Treatment and Research Trust ) as we also asked you for a donation to help START in their research into replacement skin for series skin problems . |
| 13 | But at other times , as we also know , people can be remarkably altruistic and committed to others . |
| 14 | Indeed , as we also saw in the last chapter , one recent writer ( Jenkins , 1984 ) portrays Beccaria 's postponement of the positivist revolution as being anti-radical and supportive of existing authoritarian rulers . |
| 15 | But as we also saw , that strength comes too soon , denies too much . |
| 16 | As we also said in chapter 3 , there are instances when efficiency measures are either not practicable or not possible . |
| 17 | ‘ Forgive us our debts as we also forgive those that are indebted to us . ’ |
| 18 | In the Lord 's prayer , he teaches us to pray , ‘ Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors ’ ( Matt. 6:12 ) . |
| 19 | As we also found earlier , it is far from easy to specify exactly what being an autonomous agent actually consists in , although we have a firm conception of a kind of ideal type — someone moved by the pure light of reason who ponders the evidence before them and makes considered , unconstrained decisions . |
| 20 | The term wastes , as used in early documents , is in modern parlance a misuse of the word , as they also existed at lower levels where arable and pasture might be expected . |
| 21 | But as they also say , the boy done good . |
| 22 | And it was a double celebration for the Ards club , as they also won the Provincial Towns Senior Championship League for the first time this season . |
| 23 | It shows San Carlo to have had a big nose and long ears , features which must have been real as they also appear in several portraits . |
| 24 | Those worth considering , as they also have a variety of reds and greens over the basic coloration as well as stripes , include C. festae , C. urophthalmus or trimaculatum . |
| 25 | On now to Barry Humphries ' autobiography , More Please ( Penguin ) ; Carol ( second wife of Walter ) Matthau 's memoirs Among the Porcupines ( Orion ) ; Ranulph Fiennes ' search for the city of Ubar ( the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , Atlantis of the Sands ( Penguin ) : A N Wilson 's Jesus ( Flamingo ) , coming at the same time as Barbara Thiering 's Jesus the Man ( Corgi ) , as they also did in hardcover ; and Miranda Seymour 's much-praised life of Ottoline Morrell ( Sceptre ) , £25 in hardcover and so welcome as a £7 or £8 paperback . |
| 26 | A verse by Sighvat says that famous princes have brought their heads to Cnut from Fife to buy peace ; where this fits in is not clear , although as it also refers to St Olaf , and in the past tense , his death in 1030 had evidently occurred before it was composed . |
| 27 | The Movement recognised this , as it also recognised that administrative pressures were working against a concerted attempt to preserve religious unity . |
| 28 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 29 | It is mainly used as a phosphate source which , as it also contains some lime , has an alkaline reaction . |
| 30 | At the vote on the imposition of sanctions against Iraq , Yemen abstained as it also did from the vote at the Arab League meeting which approved Arab military intervention in Saudi Arabia . |