Example sentences of "also [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kinsey and his colleagues had also broken a taboo by openly discussing the female orgasm , a subject still shrouded in misinformation . |
| 2 | ‘ I am still nursing some bruised ribs , though nothing has been broken , and I 've also broken a tooth . |
| 3 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 4 | ( Subsequently , the government proposed exempting the mentally ill and elderly people living in homes and hospitals ; and also allowing a discount for students and the less well off ; see Paying for Local Government-the Community Charge , 1986 . ) |
| 5 | They also announced a thing called D R D A two . |
| 6 | The government also announced a package of tax cuts and incentives . |
| 7 | The government also announced a trade surplus of £Syr10,430 million for 1989 , the first for 30 years , fuelled largely by increased oil exports . |
| 8 | Lamont also announced a reform of the UK budget system , hitherto presented in two parts , with expenditure plans announced in the autumn economic statement and revenue measures detailed in the March budget . |
| 9 | To be fair , the C E C have not tried to say that everything in the garden is rosy , they 've also highlighted a number of problem areas that still exist . |
| 10 | With the Anglian team so far in front major interest is now centred on the battle for the No.2 spot that also guarantees a dream ticket to the Premier League . |
| 11 | It also turns a dream into a solid business proposition , worth the considerable investment . |
| 12 | This mechanism can lead to the collapse of the mineral lattice ( as in the formation of the clay mineral vermiculite from biotite ) and it also renders a mineral more vulnerable to the operation of other weathering processes . |
| 13 | We may need them , but we should also spare a thought for our cats when using them , or sooner or later our pet animals will suffer . |
| 14 | Among book ephemera I must also spare a paragraph for the modest bookmark , much neglected and too little chronicled.2 I do not , of course , refer to improvised examples such as scraps of brown paper and bacon rinds , but to the commercially produced strips of silk , paper and card , some of them elaborately lettered and decorated , deckled , frilled , tassled and ribboned . |
| 15 | Whereas the interrogative form of the first utterance might be claimed to encode a question , that is not all that is intended : it would be strikingly uncooperative if B were to say yes ( meaning just " yes I am able to come " ) and then not go to A. Somehow , the interrogative form can also convey a request , and this interpretation is strongly reinforced here by the presence of the word please ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 16 | The master had changed : William Cox , the oldest man aboard at the ripe old age of 54 , was not merely the ship 's captain — he also owned a half-share in her . |
| 17 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 18 | By 1752 Standidge was freighting his own ships to Rhode Island and in 1766 , when he also owned a shipyard , he equipped the Berry for a voyage to the Greenland fishery . |
| 19 | She also owned a brothel in Manchester and one in Glasgow ; however , both were considerably downmarket , catering to the middle and working classes . |
| 20 | He also owned a shop on the main street , selling hardware and tinned foods and some garden produce . |
| 21 | Five months later another pair of earrings bought by investigators also failed a heat test . |
| 22 | Macdonald also remarks a contrario , that " while the cheapness of women 's work as compositors in Edinburgh seems to have attracted a certain class of work from London , the men 's success in keeping up wages in London bookbinding does not seem to have driven bookbinding to the provinces " . |
| 23 | Heelas has also given a survey of the different attempts at defining aggression , and the main theories which account for it ( Heelas 1982 , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | and he was also given a promise of the reversion of Boraston 's job . |
| 25 | Glamorgan have also given a trial to Stewart Taylor , 20 , a left-arm spinner from Dublin who has played for Irish Schools . |
| 26 | She was also given a cheque for nineteen pounds to buy a hundred second cla second class stamps for the postcard campaign . |
| 27 | Both boys won a week 's discovery holiday for two in Dorset , and , like the 17 runners-up , were also given a year 's subscription to the BBC Wildlife Magazine and the choice of a camera , pair of binoculars , telescope or microscope . |
| 28 | He is also given a lien on any goods which he is himself supposed to return . |
| 29 | They were given an ounce of twist tobacco a week and two at Christmas , when they were also given a pint of beer . |
| 30 | Each region was also given a Planning Council nominated from prominent local figures . |