Example sentences of "[was/were] also [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such demands were given urgency by the publication in 1915 of Maternity : letters from working women which described experiences of motherhood in harrowing terms ; they were also to set the agenda for the 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act and interwar policy . |
| 2 | The last three West Indian wickets were also to fall cheaply , but before that the batsmen had done rather better ; Greenidge and Haynes posted another century partnership and Lloyd and Gomes both reached the nineties . |
| 3 | As the next chapter shows , the subsequent oil price rises were also to hit Germany and Japan much more heavily than the United States . |
| 4 | Other state institutions were also to leave Paris . |
| 5 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 6 | In December it decided that they were also to acquire farmland . |
| 7 | But they were also to swear to root out every remnant of the old religion . |
| 8 | As our report indicated , besides denoting objectives , content and possible means of evaluation ( probably entitled ‘ how do we know what they have learnt ’ ) , the syllabus and materials were also to call attention to : |
| 9 | Meanwhile , 17th Corps ( General August von Mackensen ) and his 1st Reserve Corps ( General Otto von Below ) were also to withdraw from the Gumbinnen area and march southward to take up station on 20th Corps ' left . |
| 10 | Greene told the inquiry , which was spread over three races , that his instructions were also to sit in behind and monitor Vaguely Artistic . |
| 11 | The Adventurers were also to ensure that all levels were driven with only a slight gradient … " just sufficient to drain out the water " . |
| 12 | ( The Paynes ' connections were also to prove useful in obtaining for Smith & Payne extraordinary re-discount facilities at the Bank of England . ) |
| 13 | Members were also to influence parents because their cooperation and support was seen as ‘ absolutely essential ’ in the long run . |
| 14 | Two other areas of the market were also to succumb to ‘ intervention ’ . |
| 15 | And there is a sense in which this applies , but although I can appreciate his point that seeking a good reputation may well dominate the practical order , if it were also to dominate the activities I have designated ‘ second-order ’ then it makes nonsense of the possibility of ‘ disinterestedness ’ , enjoying something for its own sake . |
| 16 | How lucky England were also to have a footballer of Halliday 's ability in the side . |
| 17 | This was to last two years and to be focused on public law and , once more , the study and analysis of diplomatic documents : the pupils were also to have a knowledge of either English or German . |
| 18 | The Earth science revolution was made possible in large part by a new found ability to examine the oceanic crust , at first by remote sensing and later through direct access ; and the techniques that revealed the importance of the ocean floors in the plate-tectonic scheme of things were also to provide ever-increasing quantities of data on the rocks hitherto concealed by the world 's oceans . |
| 19 | Programme contracts were also to govern the implementation of the 1987 rail transport plan . |
| 20 | It concluded that Sinowatz , Blecha and Gratz bore the chief political responsibility , but that other members of the government were also to blame . |
| 21 | Scientists were unsure however whether they were also to blame for severe fogs reported in parts of Malaysia , Singapore , the Philippines and Thailand . |
| 22 | The minister said that employers were also to blame for the fall-off in recruits , describing them as ‘ much less supportive ’ of part-time soldiers than they were in the past . |
| 23 | On December 7th too , when the matter was raised at a meeting of the President and principals , the operation was presented by McFarlane as essentially prospective , something that had not happened yet ; but the purpose of the meeting was also to justify policy after the fact . |
| 24 | If the combined effect of these rather complex changes in the distribution of social labour between sectors and strata was to reduce the size of the ‘ traditional ’ industrial working class , it was also to render the ‘ traditional ’ British conception of the middle class more problematic . |
| 25 | Finally , the question tells us that A's object was to save the leader ; it does not tell us whether his object was also to save himself . |
| 26 | She did not admit to herself that to leave it was also to decide the issue in advance . |
| 27 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 28 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 29 | It was also to incorporate the sabra or prickly pear , the cactus which is a symbol of Israel , to provide hope for the future not only for Jews but also for all the persecuted people of the world . |
| 30 | Another temporary need fitted in to this plan , for Robert Slater , the Anglican chaplain at the university , was also to go on leave , and I was to keep services going in the little wooden Anglican church on the university side of the lake , as well as the other two quite heavy responsibilities . |