Example sentences of "it was also the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It flashed on me that it was also the smile that Conchis sometimes wore ; as if he sat before the head and practised it . |
| 2 | It was also the year in which the train robbers were sentenced and France and England agreed to the principle of a Channel Tunnel . |
| 3 | It was also the year in which I discovered both sex and death , so I must have learned something , in spite of not going to school . |
| 4 | It was also the year of the first presidential election held under universal suffrage . |
| 5 | But it was also the year that the class structure of the underground , under pressure from a voracious music industry , ensured that a sizeable enclosure was partitioned off , in front of the stage , for the great and expensively attired of the new aristocracy . |
| 6 | It was also the availability of free information on radio and television , in particular . |
| 7 | It was also the home of the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club whose motto , ‘ The right crowd and no crowding ’ , neatly summed up its attitude — not for nothing has it been called the Ascot of the motor racing world . |
| 8 | November 5 , on the other hand , became the occasion for commemorating the Glorious Revolution , since it was also the anniversary of William 's landing at Torbay . |
| 9 | It was also the realisation of the fundamental concept behind page description languages , in that they were originally intended to be used for creating displays rather than driving printers , and the beginning of Adobe 's attempt to create a standard for graphics systems , now known as Display PostScript . |
| 10 | It was also the cradle of the nation 's aircraft industry , starting with A V Roe 's historic flight in 1908 . |
| 11 | It was also the cold : a chill wind had risen during the morning and ruffled the feathers of a sparrow which stood shivering on the window-ledge . |
| 12 | It was also the case that the conversion of the population to the market philosophy needed direction on a massive scale . |
| 13 | For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not . |
| 14 | It was also the case for a small number of women with children who felt isolated because their social horizons were constrained by domestic and family expectations . |
| 15 | Consider also if cc occurred then , even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with cc and e , it was also the case that e occurred-which is the first part of the independent conditional in ( 5 ) . |
| 16 | It was also the case in the very unmilitary Dutch Republic ; and in the Habsburg territories the Kriegskommissariat set up in 1657 and reformed by Haugwitz in the 1740s was made up largely of civilians . |
| 17 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |
| 18 | It was also the day of Serbia 's national saint , St Vitus ( Vidovdan ) . |
| 19 | We never celebrated her birthday , because it was also the day her mother died . |
| 20 | It was a shame , really , thought Robert as he lugged a crate of lemonade in through the front door , that it was also the day the whole place was due to be consumed in hell-fire . |
| 21 | But it was also the day an independent report suggested his defence cuts had led to far greater job losses than expected , especially in defence dependent areas like Gloucestershire where thousands have been made redundant from companies like Dowties and Smiths Industries . |
| 22 | Yes , it was the Felipe de Santis she remembered but it was also the man she had had harsh words with this morning — the driver of the red Porsche . |
| 23 | It was also the clerk 's duty to keep shareholders informed of the progress and financial state of the company . |
| 24 | In some regions it was also the name given to a scarecrow and the essence of its meaning was that something was scruffy and untidy . |
| 25 | It was also the voice of innocence , Peggy thought . |
| 26 | In the end , it was also the issue which secured a vital nail in the coffin of Britain 's nuclear dream . |
| 27 | It was also the issue weighed by the DPP before declining to prosecute Pasolini 's film Salo in 1977 . |
| 28 | It was also the pseudonym used by Christine Isobel Johnstone , wife of an Edinburgh publisher . |
| 29 | It was also the occasion of his resignation from the Society of Friends . |
| 30 | However , many visitors to the Locks have gone away without realising that it was also the location for one of the more fascinating engineering feats of the canal era , an ‘ Inclined Plane ’ which lifted boats up the steep Foxton escarpment on the Grand Union Canal , enabling them to avoid the climb through the narrow locks , which was both wasteful of water and time-consuming . |