Example sentences of "already [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By his forties he was already recognized as a future bishop .
2 Yet urban , industrial polarization had already developed to a considerable degree before 1917 , creating awareness of the political centre among the more sophisticated peasant strata such as village teachers , zemstvo clerks , bookkeepers , doctors ' and veterinarians ' assistants .
3 Chelsea already goes to a black majority state school in Arkansas , but for Amy the change was sudden .
4 As rhetoric enfolds a group or initiative , so fibres of meaning interpenetrate every strand of sound , ensuring that the experience reaches us already placed in a general scheme of significance , validated and rendered ripe for the ICA We are constantly made conscious .
5 Hereford and Worcester has already voted for a similar ban , Northamptonshire 's decision only has to go to the full council , and Gloucestershire votes next week .
6 It will probably be passed alto to a small committee of the European Parliament , but the Parliament has already voted by a large majority in favour of a ban and a further reference may be deemed unnecessary .
7 For I had already sat through a grave miscarriage of justice .
8 Other mitigating measures could involve the encouragement of private concerns to develop their own plantations , as is already occurring on a small scale , not only in the rainforest regions but also in savanna regions where Eucalyptus is being successfully cultivated to provide fuelwood and poles .
9 Although some people may not realise it , if they are paying NI contributions they are almost certainly already contributing towards an additional pension : either to the State scheme , known as SERPS ; or to a contracted-out company pension scheme .
10 After the interval Saints were obliged to return to defence but , with Hearts as inept as ever in their build-up and finishing , Tynecastle 's smallest crowd of the season , 6,200 , were already resigned to a goalless draw .
11 I had already come across a congratulatory account of this transformation in Jules Verne .
12 Such a man is already living in a different world .
13 Flour has already risen by 15 per cent since then whilst animal feed has already risen by a similar amount and is expected to increase further .
14 Suggesting to some , they were already acting like a married couple .
15 Males , in particular , are quickly inhibited from approaching a female if she is already interacting with a male partner .
16 The concession will not therefore normally apply to rights already granted under an approved employee share scheme .
17 The evidence she is said recently to have conveyed to ANC intelligence officers against Mrs Mandela throws darker shadows over what was already seen as a murky trial .
18 Doug Williams , a manager in the bank 's insurance group , says the operation has been profitable for the past two years and is already seen as a significant part of Chase 's retail service .
19 The book has already featured in a double page spread in the Independent on Sunday , and given the importance and enduring fascination of the subject , further coverage is expected .
20 She had already applied to a Physical Training College when a hip dislocation shattered her plans , and she found herself instead working for Prudential Assurance in Holborn for eight years .
21 I had already moved onto a better job by then , along with all the other officers who had worked on the loan .
22 We have already moved from a whole season to a single day and the next four lines are narrowed down even further from the universal sun to a fire which exists in a particular person , namely , the speaker .
23 The salmon had already turned into a ravening wolf , eating at my innards .
24 You should n't , if you 've already turned into a full-time clergyman 's wife .
25 It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means .
26 You are already possessed of a substantial household , and have here been visited with a second .
27 Made a vain attempt to tidy up the room , which was already looking like a heavy-metal combat zone , and took himself off for a shower .
28 A western management consultancy reports that one of its employees has already defected to a Hungarian company .
29 He retired in 1863 and , like other well-known professional cricketers of the age , had already embarked on a small-scale business venture .
30 He had , however , already embarked on a military career in the Dutch service .
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