Example sentences of "we have already " in BNC.

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1 We have already visited over 90 schools and reached 36,000 pupils .
2 We have already mentioned in passing the state policies regarding the arts in Germany , the USSR and China ; there have been writers who followed the party lines by giving attention to those artists favoured by patronage , while neglecting others .
3 We have already looked at writing in catalogues , and can now turn our attention to the critical responses which appear in articles .
4 A leading exponent of these mysteries is the novelist and journalist V. S. Naipaul , whose foreign countries are , as we have already seen , areas of darkness , where coups and crises are glimpsed but may remain enigmatic .
5 We have already mentioned Equity , and for a number of reasons the entire question of how to enter the actors ' union needs discussion at this point .
6 And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time .
7 The specific observations of neurophysiologists , correlating stimulus properties , neural activities and the characteristics of subjective reports of sensation , contribute to explaining how ‘ the diversity of working produceth a diversity of experience ’ only if we have already explained how ‘ working ’ produceth ‘ experience ’ at all .
8 And we have already discussed the correlations described by the Weber-Fechner law between impinging energy and sensation .
9 We have already received two ideas , which might prove useful in the workshop .
10 We have already met Lyamshin , the member of the quintet whose party act is to mimic women in labour and new-born babies .
11 Refuting the argument that proportional representation would mean trimming to minority centrist positions , Robin Cooke , one of Labour 's leading advocates of reform , said : ‘ We have already gone to endless lengths to placate the centre ground . ’
12 Is he really blind to the fact that we have already done precisely that , and that is why an unprecedented consensus now exists on every aspect of the policy ?
13 We have already noted how deviance is amplified upon the application of the gouger typification , so that the failure to apply it can result in a dissipation of deviance and an attempt to normalize the behaviour .
14 We have already related those trends to the content of television news .
15 We have already noted the correlation between overall trends in perceptions of opinion polls and trends in perceptions of party prospects ( see Table 7.3 ) .
16 At the same time there was some evidence that those who had a more general interest in politics , as distinct from those who found the campaign interesting ( a distinction we have already found significant in other contexts ) , were likely to record lower levels of total approval .
17 We have already seen him comparing Frazer with Freud .
18 We have already seen how the psychic return of homosexuality is central to Freud 's account of neurosis , possibly becoming , in Hocquenghem 's phrase , the ‘ killer of civilised egos ’ because such egos are rooted in and conditional upon the repression of that same homosexual desire which returns .
19 At the same time , and as we have already seen , ‘ homophobia ’ is an inadequate term to describe all this since what is at issue is not personal phobia so much as the recurrence in mutated form of structures integral to cultural identity and social formation .
20 The use of anthropology which we have already noted can be called historical .
21 As a result , the evidence for this second stage in the history of marriage depends entirely on the two assumptions which we have already noted .
22 This is a crucial proposition which we have already noted and which will be discussed again later in this book .
23 We have already outlined the evidence ( Chapter 1 and 2 ) that the rhythms of fatigue and body temperature have both external and internal causes .
24 We have already considered how the body clock , by lowering body temperature and increasing the sensation of fatigue , helps to promote and maintain sleep .
25 We have already established that physical work seems harder at night than during the daytime ; does the same apply to mental performance ?
26 We have already seen that it is common to feel tired about lunchtime ( the ‘ post-lunch dip ’ ) ; this is about 12 hours after retiring and so is another example of an ultradian rhythm with a period less than 24 hours .
27 As we have already discussed , bright light acts as a time-cue in humans and so might be helping patients not only because it fell in a critical period ( though how this might work is still not known ) , but in addition , or instead , because it adjusted the body clock and so removed a conflict of timing between the patient 's body clock and his sleep/wake rhythm .
28 Moreover , some appear to consist of little more than the ‘ active constituents ’ of the dietary regimen we have already described — a regime whose effectiveness is not accepted by all research workers .
29 UNEP and others have estimated that it would cost approximately $4,500 million a year over the next 20 years to slow and stop desertification , and to begin to reclaim the land that we have already lost .
30 It was shortly after his time at Oxford , on his first journey to the Continent , that Hobbes found that others were dissatisfied with scholasticism ; and we have already noted that an interest in method was characteristic of the seventeenth century .
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