Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] already [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a resident magpie — this year 's nest building has already begun — birds visiting the garden daily include blue tit , great tit , long-tailed tit and coal tit , siskin , greenfinch , sparrows , blackbirds , thrushes , robins and at the last count 11 chaffinches . |
| 2 | Bond Corp has already said this deadline may be delayed if the regulatory authorities insist that full Bond Corp accounts are included in the document . |
| 3 | DEC will target Japan as a growing market for networked computer systems and a source of strategic alliances , Reuter reports from Tokyo : ‘ Japan is a critically important market to Digital Equipment , ’ president and chief executive Robert Palmer said at an exposition of DEC products in the city ; Kubota Corp has already said it will use DEC 's Alpha chip in its workstations and rumours naming Japanese companies that are planning Alpha-based links with DEC have appeared in the Japanese business press . |
| 4 | Sharp Corp has already signed to make and market the first Apple Personal Digital Assistant , Newton , and Sony Corp makes Apple 's smallest PowerBook . |
| 5 | The £87m cross-harbour link has already passed the half way stage and is well on schedule for completion in November next year . |
| 6 | British Rail has already accepted responsibility for the matter , as the Secretary of State has pointed out . |
| 7 | The thinking in this direction has already started . |
| 8 | One of Kolja 's daughters , Zarsto 's Fit For Fight has already won nine CCs at 16 months old . |
| 9 | Student Watch has already proved successful in other towns . |
| 10 | Its new approach of competitive bidding has already galvanized towns and cities into bringing forward imaginative proposals for regeneration . |
| 11 | The pace of technological change has already rendered obsolete many items that few would argue amongst the worth of preserving . |
| 12 | Ward councillor Joan Ellis said : ‘ The fact the change has already occurred is a matter of some regret . ’ |
| 13 | However , ‘ arises ’ is ambiguous and his later examples suggest , on the contrary , that a form of self-awareness has already arisen with the behaviour . |
| 14 | The frailty of the Leeds defence has already cost them dearly this season . |
| 15 | Even though the Ministry of Defence has already drawn up plans to pull Britain 's 2,400 troops out of the danger zone swiftly , they could find themselves caught in the crossfire very quickly . |
| 16 | TVEI funding has already enabled the Region to undertake a curriculum audit in schools , and allowed individual schools to carry out some development work . |
| 17 | A buyer has already emerged with a sale agreement being reached in November . |
| 18 | A similar effect can be achieved in other ways : for instance , a clause providing that the seller will not refund any sums paid by the buyer effectively prevents rejection where the buyer has already paid the price . |
| 19 | ( i ) Purpose versus quality and law reform It may be that judicial ingenuity has already introduced into the law , irrespective of its emphasis upon purpose and function , a requirement that the goods supplied should be free of cosmetic defects , thereby introducing an acceptability test . |
| 20 | Parliament has already expressed its view that investigations should proceed and , if necessary , prosecutions should be brought . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Practical PC has already reviewed it , and pronounced it excellent , looking forward to Windows NT , which will be the OS that is a GUI ( do n't worry , all will be explained . ) |
| 23 | Indeed , recession has already eroded middle-class ethics so that less of the expensive real meat is being bought . |
| 24 | - A letter appears in a national newspaper expressing disbelief that the writer has already spotted the first penny-for-the-guy collector/Christmas tree/artificial snow sprayed on shop window/Valentine cards on sale . |
| 25 | North-East medical expertise has already saved one Romanian life baby Bogdan Ursu was recently brought to Middlesbrough General Hospital , where consultant surgeon Fred Nath carried out a vital operation to cure water on the brain . |
| 26 | CLIFF BRUNT , chairman of a Parent-Teacher Association , in Hadleigh , argues that the wrangle has already rendered this summer 's exams worthless . |
| 27 | This course has already created interest so has therefore been confirmed . |
| 28 | Paragraph seven making it clear put that an initial assessment has already established er it has already passed the preliminary assessment stage er and that er the director is undertaking the data collection procedure so that the site can be properly assessed and I do drawn er Mr attention er to that I erm have taken the opportunity during the last adjournment Chairman to speak to Mr about the appropriateness of the wording of his er er amendment and I believe that he he may wish to er move something which is slightly different er which will certainly er we 'll deal with that er if he does move that but er it clearly is the intention of this report and of the committee that when the work has been completed on the assessment of traffic calming measure in Shalford and its priority established , that we would then bring er another report er to the highways and transportation committee in response to this petition er as as indeed is set out in paragraph ten B and if Mr wished that to be brought forward through to council then that will be done but I leave to him if he wish to move an amendment to make it quite clear , since er I must say this motion is rather bland . |
| 29 | Amazing as it must seem to non-Americans , skirmishing for the Republican presidential nomination for the 1996 election has already broken out . |
| 30 | A cuckoo that finds a host 's nest where incubation has already started will often rob the nest causing the unfortunate host to start a new clutch , thus providing the cuckoo with a further chance for parasitism . |