Example sentences of "[was/were] already [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there were already many activities concerned with cost and financial control , these functions would assume greater importance in the future , inferring that the expertise in Colleges should be developed or enhanced , and officers nominated to assume new responsibilities . |
| 2 | Before they hit the ground there were already many kicks in their faces . ’ |
| 3 | There were already several texts on anatomy , the most famous being Elements of Descriptive and Practical Anatomy ( 1828 ) by James Quain [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | In 1898 there were already several termini in Tokyo . |
| 5 | There were already several cars in the VIP car park , and — prominent amongst them was a new Rolls-Royce Corniche with the number plate BS1 . |
| 6 | In the 1970s there were already some moves in this direction , reflected in the formation of regional agencies , such as water authorities and health authorities ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , Ch. 7 ) . |
| 7 | There was already much co-operation between the European telecoms authorities , especially on standards . |
| 8 | Within English itself there was already some awareness of the need to ensure that the discipline could touch the student of science : " The student of the physical and social sciences is not a disembodied intelligence , and he too can gain much from that purifying of the emotions which is still one of the most valuable gifts of the literary artist to posterity . |
| 9 | Daak was already some distance ahead . |
| 10 | And later she might have sworn , even though the lighting was bad and he was already some distance away , that before turning around and stalking off into the night , the stranger had snarled like a beast . |
| 11 | In the closing years of that century the eastward spread was beginning : there was already some development east of the Tower of London , including the later-notorious Ratcliff Highway and the docks area at Wapping , Shadwell and Limehouse . |
| 12 | There was already some evidence that light was a form of wave motion , but a wave motion in what ? |
| 13 | But Nenna , somewhat to the curate 's surprise , for he seldom felt himself to be a truly welcome guest , was already half way up the companion . |
| 14 | Mr Masters was quite clear that he had first seen the blue BMW late on the Saturday evening , ten days before , pointing out that , while you could n't exactly complain , it had made access to his own forecourt space a little difficult , or at least when there was already another car on the forecourt , which there mostly was , that being Mrs Masters 's runabout . |