Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that [vb -s] already [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody who is sensible or sane would say that we should export more arms to a country that is already awash with them , because it would do little more than increase the bloodshed that has already stained that country . |
| 2 | The building was in good condition , but the city council wished to clear the site to make way for yet another comprehensive shopping development of the kind that has already blighted other parts of the city beyond recall . |
| 3 | The worst response would be the sort that has already begun to be hinted at for ICI : protecting itself through a tangle of joint ventures . |
| 4 | I regret the delay that has already occurred and shall watch with great interest the manner in which the Labour party mobilises its forces to support that measure . |
| 5 | They will be ignoring the slide that has already taken place — and is accelerating . |
| 6 | Papers and journals not privileged to receive the leak feel less inclined to give room to a story that has already appeared somewhere else . |
| 7 | The aim is to encourage a process that has already started : a shift of labour-intensive manufacturing away from Singapore to its lower-cost neighbours . |
| 8 | In a population that has already come to be dominated by Always Defect , no other strategy does better . |
| 9 | It may be a topic that has already aroused great controversy , e.g. the Defence Committee inquiry into Westland helicopters . |
| 10 | Instead we get a pornographic fascination with violence ( in a society that 's already got more than enough of the real thing , thank you ) ; hatred and fear of women and gays ( ditto ) ; and an aesthetic based on absolute infantile self-absorption . |
| 11 | Keegan refuses to publicly condemn a competition that has already provoked a welter of criticism but has asked the Football League to re-examine the format of using Italian referees in England and vice-versa . |
| 12 | It is equally clear , however , that it is a remarkable phenomenon and that the chances of its leading to the detection of a diversion that has already taken place , or is in the course of taking place , are reasonably good and are improving as the Agency 's technology in this area develops … |
| 13 | And to cap it all , in my front garden , a taxus that has already outgirthed Sir Cyril Smith was making a takeover bid for my car runway , so that friends would smilingly open their drivers ' doors only to get a mouthful of evergreen . |
| 14 | Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings , and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it . |
| 15 | A client that 's already got some insurance . |