Example sentences of "also [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also failed to mobilize a heavy turnout amongst black voters , many of whom criticised him for ignoring them in his efforts to woo the white rural electorate . |
| 2 | And he also failed to hold a Gary Lineker shot which produced Spurs ' third goal . |
| 3 | O'Neill also failed to appreciate the extent of Protestant misgivings , preferring instead to see Paisley and his supporters as a small and unrepresentative rabble . |
| 4 | She also failed to notice the board had hired a teacher with convictions for exposing himself to schoolgirls , or ask why a probationary principal was still in place despite pleading guilty to a $21,000 welfare scam . |
| 5 | The coup also failed to win the support of the opposition Comoros Democratic Front . |
| 6 | At school he did ‘ extraordinarily badly ’ by his own admission and he also failed to obtain a degree in agriculture at Cambridge University , but with his sights firmly fixed on a career in the family business , such academic shortcomings represented no real handicap . |
| 7 | It was a mixed night for the Liberal Democrats , who also failed to make a significant breakthrough . |
| 8 | The League also failed to understand the humiliation of the defeat and dismemberment inflicted on Germany and failed spectacularly in its appreciation of the unworkable arrangements made around Danzig . |
| 9 | He also admitted using the cucumber and an iron bar to frighten staff . |
| 10 | He also admitted fingering the private parts of a two and a half year old child for whom he was baby sitting . |
| 11 | Lindsay also admitted having a shotgun , revolver and ammunition on the same date ; UVF membership ; two conspiracies to murder ; three hijackings and receiving firearms training illegally . |
| 12 | Ligier also avoided confirming the appointment . |
| 13 | He also sought to promote the local iron industry , and to continue the development of Whitehaven as a planned town along lines laid down by his father in the 1680s . |
| 14 | She also sought to compare the impact of wife rape with the impact of rape by strangers and others , and found that 65 per cent . |
| 15 | They also sought to turn the criticism on its head by offering Reagan as a ‘ citizen ’ candidate running against a seasoned and , by implication , tainted professional politician . |
| 16 | The Act also sought to restrict the extent to which a woman 's prior sexual history could be used as admissible evidence in court , thus indirectly affecting the material available to the press to publish . |
| 17 | It also sought to initiate a debate on how we can start regenerating the north of England and develop a more balanced nation . |
| 18 | He also sought to draw a distinction between an unlawful demand made under an ultra vires instrument and one made under an intra vires instrument which was misconstrued or misapplied . |
| 19 | He also sought to have the cable spliced in mid-Atlantic with the freighting vessels sailing for America and Britain simultaneously . |
| 20 | Thus while the committees hoped their work would act as an antidote to the apparent tendency ‘ to reduce workpeople to the mental condition of animated machines ’ , they also sought to encourage an all-round improvement in efficiency and a training designed to develop ‘ the habit of regular industry … a healthy growth in mind and body ’ , the inculcation of thrift , and the ever popular ‘ discipline ’ . |
| 21 | We also sought to provide a link for residents of Murieston to Livingston centre while the Murieston area is still developing , rather than wait for the completion of this housing area before taking action . |
| 22 | It also agreed to simplify the rules governing the trade of sensitive technology between members of COCOM , a question that was of particular interest to members of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 23 | They also agreed to relax the state of readiness of their forces and to reduce military exercises . |
| 24 | However , she also agreed to attend a conjoint session with her parents the next week . |
| 25 | They also agreed to create a commission of experts to tackle problems arising from the different trade policies adopted by Latin American and EC countries . |
| 26 | Japan also agreed to intensify the enforcement of its existing anti-monopoly legislation , to introduce tax reforms aimed at encouraging property development , and to increase spending on housing and public works , in an effort to increase Japanese domestic demand . |
| 27 | The mother also agreed to place a small plate of Ben 's favourite food ( chunks of cheese and pieces of apple ) in front of him at meal-times but then not to watch him eat by getting on with a job in the kitchen . |
| 28 | He also agreed to pay a record $600 million in penalties : $200 million in fines and $400 million to injured investors . |
| 29 | The committee also agreed to pay the master his expenses in apprehending runaway boys from the workhouse . |
| 30 | The summit also agreed to establish a regional stock exchange from January 1991 with the cross-listing of the community 's three current exchanges based in Jamaica , Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago . |