Example sentences of "also [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time . |
| 2 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 3 | KINSEY was one of the successes of the year , not least for its semi-criminal claim-game milieu but also for its imaginative shooting of day and night time in the city . |
| 4 | Pin the angled offcuts from the legs on to a scrap piece of wood to make an excellent cradle for planing and also for clamping blocks . |
| 5 | Floor tiles are less widely used than wall tiles , but are a popular choice for heavy traffic areas such as porches and hallways , and also for conservatories . |
| 6 | You usually get free accident cover , too , for glass in doors , windows and skylights , and also for baths , washbasins and wcs . |
| 7 | Getting this right obviously matters in itself , but also for its bearing on two further issues . |
| 8 | This is a significant advantage over RDS-EON which has to be slotted into programmes intended also for domestic and ‘ walking ’ listeners . |
| 9 | Brent Walker bought Whyte & Mackay from Lonrho earlier this year for £180m in a deal that included four French vineyards , which are also for sale for as much as £60m . |
| 10 | Our society needs to be given the chance to hear its own heartbeat in its own music — for pleasure first , then also for knowledge and understanding . |
| 11 | Look out also for such exotica as malegato , an aromatic Italian equivalent of traditional Scots black pudding . |
| 12 | Cardiff City have signed Leigh Barnard , the Swindon midfield player , for £25,000 , while Bury have borrowed Gary Kelly , the Newcastle goalkeeper , also for a month . |
| 13 | Such theories have been plausibly criticized for their romantic and Utopian strains , also for the way they echo and sometimes invoke a post-Freudian version of the polymorphous perverse . |
| 14 | Destined also for 348 ( below right ) in 1992 ? |
| 15 | Privacy ; Erika longed for it herself , often , but it occurred to her , for the first time , that her mother might long for it , too , might want it and , indeed , need it , and it dawned on her , also for the first time , that her mother had never had any privacy since the end of the War ; that all her life since then she had lived in small apartments , actually in one small room for long periods , and sharing even that room with others … . |
| 16 | As head of production for Gainsborough Pictures and , from 1932 , also for Gaumont-British , Michael Balcon had to make over 20 pictures a year . |
| 17 | ‘ We are arguing not just for ourselves , but also for our younger brothers and sisters — and perhaps our own children . ’ |
| 18 | The BCS has got to decide whether it is just for computer people who produce systems , or also for those — accountants , engineers , project managers , architects , writers , artists , musicians and designers of arcade games — who apply them . |
| 19 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 20 | Angie would continuously go and buy things for David and Zowie , but also for me . |
| 21 | The 1980s , he notes , were the first decade in history in which there was no increase in the area of land farmed and — also for the first time — a fall in the amount of fresh water used per capita . |
| 22 | Even Admiral Hyman Rickover , father and all-powerful master of the US Navy 's nuclear programme , who had hitherto blocked all Anglo-American collaboration in nuclear submarine development and had a well-known contempt for all things British , agreed not only to Britain purchasing an American reactor for her first nuclear submarine , Dreadnought , but also for the reactor to be the most recent second-generation version , thus saving Britain valuable time and development costs . |
| 23 | It requires there to be markets not just for actual goods but also for ‘ contingent goods ’ ( eg , the market for umbrellas in London next January if it is an unusually rainy month ) . |
| 24 | Mahathir Mohamad , the Malaysian prime minister , dreamily says he wants the bombs to stop falling on Iraq and also for Iraq to leave Kuwait . |
| 25 | For a good reason , but also for a bad one , this latest change in Iran 's persona is being looked at seriously . |
| 26 | The civil servants watched with barely concealed glee as the ruling party became embarrassed when the North Koreans demanded compensation not only for Japan 's colonial rule but also for all the years since . |
| 27 | The Rentcharges Act 1977 prohibited the creation of further rent-charges , and provided also for the extinguishment of all existing rentcharges at the end of sixty years starting on 22 July 1977 , or on the date the rentcharge first became payable , whichever is later . |
| 28 | The trust for sale has the enormous advantage of being available also for trusts of personalty , or of mixed land and personalty , and is also more convenient for creating discretionary trusts , which of course have no life tenant . |
| 29 | Without any application to the court , the mortgagee , if his mortgage is a conveyance of the legal estate or ownership , may take possession ; but this course is hazardous , since he may be called upon in a redemption action to account strictly not only for profits actually received by him , but also for those which he might but for his default have received , and all such profits , so far as they exceed the interest due for the time being , must be set off against the principal . |
| 30 | The medical name for the ankle-bone is the astragalus ) , the Greek word also for dice . |