Example sentences of "[noun pl] were also [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 2 | Many of the urban craftsmen were also zimmi . |
| 3 | The first dinosaurs were also flesh eaters , stalking and killing paramammals and crocodilian . |
| 4 | He then sought to reconcile this proposition with the fact that the defendants were also agents for Mr. Brant and it was in the course of that agency , not whilst acting as agents for the plaintiff , that the defendants had learned that Mr. Perot was interested in buying Vertigo . |
| 5 | This housing controversy aligned Orcadians against both the English and the planners for in this context any non-local was regarded as English and since most planners were also non-Orcadians this meant that all planning policies were thought of as alien . |
| 6 | However , some of these could be explained by the fact that the temporary workers were also part-timers ( who were , in any case , excluded from particular benefits ) , or that certain benefits were available only to workers with a minimum service record . |
| 7 | As in George Borrow 's day , the booksellers were also publishers , and printed their own catalogue . |
| 8 | Individuals were also part of extended households so their absences would immediately be noticed . |
| 9 | Its dimensions were also 52ft 6in by 9ft . |
| 10 | When the Malay leaders of Malaysia assert that the Malays are ‘ bumiputras ’ , sons of the soil , and therefore to be accorded privileges as against the Chinese and Indian Malaysians , only the unkind would point out that the Malays were also immigrants from an earlier period , and that no-one has paid attention to the claims of the real indigenous peoples , the Dayak and other tribes of the forestland . |
| 11 | The stink told me that the heaps were also depositories for organic matter that did n't even have the excuse of being fertilizer . |
| 12 | belonged to the T.G.W.U. and the Lewis dockers were also members of it . |
| 13 | Gastric cancer rates were also age standardised to a ‘ world population ’ to allow appropriate comparison between the two time periods . |
| 14 | Compulsory admissions were also emergencies . |
| 15 | The composition of the leadership confirmed the close co-operation between the SACP and the ANC , many of whose policy-makers were also SACP members [ see p. 37176 for apparent rejection by Slovo of the party 's former " hardline " reputation ] . |
| 16 | Since many English naturalists were also clergymen , they were only too willing to describe the species of animals and plants they studied as examples of divine craftsmanship . |
| 17 | This was despite the fact that many of the Councillors were also Governors . |
| 18 | Later in the century the open villages were also centres of nonconformism and trade unionism . |
| 19 | The Americans lost 2,086 officers and men , over 100 civilians were also casualties . |
| 20 | ( It might be noted in passing that there were scarcely any examples known to the social workers from any team of elderly people being referred from households where other family members were also clients . ) |
| 21 | Once in power , the armed forces immediately abolished all state institutions and established in their place the non-military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) and a Cabinet , most of whose members were also SLORC members , both of which were headed by Saw Maung . |
| 22 | The Martineaus were also part of this cultivated group for whom antislavery was an aspect of their general liberalism . |
| 23 | Sale stalls with railwayana , a booking office and a mock-up of a steam locomotive cab with basic controls were also part of the attractions . |
| 24 | The partners in the first firm of solicitors were also partners in the second . |
| 25 | To celebrate a time when artists were also jewellers , we have selected some examples of their work-and of the work they helped to inspire . |
| 26 | She wondered how many of the other normal-looking groups were also fakes : that man perhaps with the glasses , a wife-and-child-beater ; the two lovers with their shared ice cream , brother and sister . |
| 27 | If his father had been a hardnose Republican , he had been a very strange one , for the cash side of the firm , the accountancy , was run by a level-headed Protestant called Tom Holdfast , and a couple of the men were also Protestants . |
| 28 | The lowest incomes were generally supplemented by charity and in many households women and children were also wage-earners . |
| 29 | Some of the children were also guests at the show , which featured the latest winter fashions . |
| 30 | Both of these boys were also Patois speakers , and had used Patois within the conversation from which the extracts were taken : but the extracts were chosen carefully to exclude any obvious " Creolisms " . |