Example sentences of "was also [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richards saw that Woolley was trying to do more than train them , and lead them , and pass on the lessons of experience : he was also struggling to turn each of them into the kind of person that he himself had become . |
| 2 | Anyway , she wanted to , me to go and see her , she said there we there was a scanner appeal , and she was also trying to talk about all sorts of other things that were possible and because there was an arts appeal and for arts facilities at the hospital , and all sorts of things . |
| 3 | It was also trying to persuade large drug companies to invest in rainforest protection ; investment which would not stem from any sense of altruism on their behalf but because , for the industrialised world , the value of medicines derived from the rainforest runs at over forty billion dollars per year . |
| 4 | The lady betrothed to the newly created Khan of the province of Khitai , her face flushed with suppressed laughter , was also trying to make herself heard . |
| 5 | Hall later returned to the club where Mr Healy was also trying to gain admission . |
| 6 | Aldhelm got up from the turf on which a new and unsteady lamb was also trying to get to its feet , nuzzled by the quivering ewe . |
| 7 | Mahmoud , adopting more orthodox procedures , was also trying to establish Leila 's identity . |
| 8 | By the time she reached the fireplace , she was also beginning to wonder whether Maurice had known McKitrick was married . |
| 9 | And it demonstrated that Hitler 's instinctive grasp of the ‘ gut feelings ’ of the population , on which his effectiveness as a speaker greatly rested , was also beginning to leave him as a result of his isolation in his distant field headquarters . |
| 10 | Matilda was also beginning to see red . |
| 11 | She was also beginning to see the lie of the land with her in-laws . |
| 12 | I was also beginning to see why Edward had been loth to speak openly about his work . |
| 13 | He was also beginning to rely very heavily on her sound judgement on a number of things . |
| 14 | It was also beginning to vex Hal , who was treated badly by those wider than him . |
| 15 | I was also beginning to have some difficulty focussing on what Emily was saying . |
| 16 | It was also beginning to worry Coleman that while he and the whole NARCOG apparatus of government agents and informants were watching the Syrians , Syrian agents and probably many of the same informants were watching them . |
| 17 | Her deseases were a large Empyema of the left lung ( which would not receive any air ) , accompanied with Pleuropneumony , and much adhesion : the right lung was also beginning to decay , and had some Pus in it . |
| 18 | Numerical superiority was also beginning to tell , for once , against the Germans . |
| 19 | He was also beginning to relapse into invective and his voice was rising . |
| 20 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 21 | But he was also hoping to blow softly into the ears of the American government . |
| 22 | He added that the company was also hoping to secure another multi-million pound contract , for an integrated helmet-mounted display system . |
| 23 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
| 24 | As well as coping with that , she was also having to include some thorough and painstaking work on the Palmer & Pearson file which Naylor Massingham had handed her on Tuesday evening . |
| 25 | While Corinne had to steel herself to be ruthless when she axed key characters , she was also having to cope with a sense of loss . |
| 26 | ( He was also anticipating to gain at least six ‘ O ’ levels before leaving school . ) |
| 27 | In another chamber in the same palace Seigneur Amaury de Craon was also preparing to change tack . |
| 28 | Mr Empson said the association was also campaigning to reduce the burden of VAT on its 1,400 members , 300 of them in Scotland . |
| 29 | Her decision was reinforced when she heard that the Queen Mother , with whom she has also clashed , was also going to attend the wedding . |
| 30 | Crabb was also going to wear a black rubber one-piece diving suit made by the Avon Rubber Company . |