Example sentences of "it also [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It also owned 17 ships , and shared ownership of four more with the L & YR , which owned the largest fleet .
2 As it exercised no rights it also owned 1,100,000 shares following the issue .
3 It also cleaned fire-charred beams and exposed the structural soundness of the underlying solid wood .
4 But it also offered other advantages — protection of British jobs against cheap foreign imports , and an inflow of customs duties to the Treasury which could be used to pay for the escalating costs of both armaments and social reforms .
5 It also offered tax-free loans at high rates of interest to Army officers as well as tax-free and high-interest investments to businessmen and members of Santiago society connected with the Army and the CNI .
6 While the Beaux-Arts reflected both this new national conceit and the megalomania of American railroad companies , it also offered American architects a new means to self-assertion through the railway station .
7 It also brought Victorian attitudes dictating that dancing lessons in dance schools were more acceptable than dancing at large public Assemblies .
8 It also brought European immigrants , who were to play a crucial role in the introduction of Marxist ideas to Latin America , flooding into these countries , where newly built ports and railways were facilitating the spread of new political theories .
9 But it also had implicit ones .
10 Er it also had practical consequences .
11 While on the whole we feel knowledge of the field-worker 's religion was not detrimental to the research , we believe it also had positive effects , in that it immediately forced respondents to confront their attitudes towards Catholics , as did the field-worker 's gender in relation to sex roles in the force , placing both issues high on the research agenda .
12 But it also had potential drawbacks , because the use of a church 's income , or part of it , to provide for members of a family could assume a disproportionate weight compared with religious observance .
13 The implications of this were discussed almost entirely in relation to the release of land for housing , but it also had considerable implications for the tenure pattern of new housing .
14 It also had public viewings of nazi propaganda films of an anti-semitic nature , including one on the ritual slaughter of animals .
15 It also condemned illegal executions carried out by soldiers and police as well as those by the FMLN , whose targets were mainly off-duty military personnel .
16 It also prescribed new regulations governing tender offers .
17 Other than the main living-room — with its round table and chairs in one corner , clearly doubling as a dining-room — it also contained two bedrooms , separated by a large family bathroom .
18 It also contained strict rules to protect the insurance fund .
19 It also enabled moderate Republicans to avoid an open break with Bush on the issue , and saved the Democrats from a potentially damaging veto battle which they seemed one vote short of winning and which would again have highlighted for white voters the identification of Democrats with minority issues .
20 Michael Feist Countryside special sites could be in open countryside away from Government policies concerning sustainability , I wonder how Professor Lock would see the situation emerging whereby a local authority has allocated a certain amount of land in its local plan for development for industrial or commercial purposes , it 's tried to erm identify a broad range of criteria but it also identified special sites erm which will only be released in exceptional circumstances , that happened to be an open countryside and had the advantages that it may be a little close to the A one or somewhere similar .
21 Natural history in the nineteenth century meant not only arguments about the system and man 's place in it ; it also meant great quantities of illustrated books and papers .
22 It also reflected philosophical scruples since it was n't obvious how a mechanical device could be conscious and , as Descartes is famous for pointing out , the only thing of which we can be certain is that we are conscious .
23 It also made budgetary options such as the introduction of a broad-based energy tax , or deep defence cuts [ see below ] , politically less viable .
24 It also re-elected Vice Presidents Yi Jong Ok and Pak Song Chol , and determined the composition of the 17-member Central People 's Committee and an 11-member National Defence Commission .
25 It also housed countless bars and gin shops , as well as a number of churches , chapels , and temperance halls , the latter set up , as it were , in opposition to as many brothels .
26 When he commanded 4th Field Regiment in Northern Ireland in 1974 the regiment was awarded four Queen 's Gallantry Medals and four Commander-in-Chief 's commendations ; it also recovered more weapons than any other unit serving in Belfast up to that time .
27 It also saw frequent proposals that diplomats should be given some systematic training to fit them for the posts they were to occupy .
28 He had found that since the chair discouraged emphasis , it also discouraged strong convictions .
29 Tordoff noted that the mutiny forced Nyerere to take a tougher line , as was evidenced by his use of the preventive Detention Act ; it also accelerated other trends which increased government control over such alternative power focuses as the trade unions , the co-operatives and the armed forces .
30 It also released more soldiers who were free to seek a living by fighting elsewhere .
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