Example sentences of "have already [vb pp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BMA has already pinpointed cycling as a way of reducing Heart Disease and cancer , so we clearly have grounds for promoting better facilities for cycling for health reasons and not just to reduce accidents . |
| 2 | One Hong Kong company , International Maritime Carriers , has already decided to rebase in Singapore . |
| 3 | One course being considered is to issue short-term deficit-financing bonds and to increase taxes on oil and oil products , an idea that Japan 's oil industry has already begun lobbying against . |
| 4 | ‘ Rock ’ climbing has already overtaken shopping as the number one leisure pursuit in most parts of the developed world — and still has a good way to go before it peaks . |
| 5 | Two faces from the Russian new wave : artist GEORGY OSTRESOV ( opposite ) has already left to study in Paris , but designer IRENA BURMISTROVA , whose clothes are shown on this page , is now accepted as one of Moscow 's token weirdos . |
| 6 | Not by plane , we 'll catch the train and then the ferry like before , almost nostalgically since when the tunnel is open , there 'll be no more frontiers to cross : the sea , I think again , has already ceased to exist for England . |
| 7 | From Table 6 and Table 7 , we see that short-term memory has already started to decay after 15 seconds , but has not completely decayed until somewhere between 15 and 25 seconds . |
| 8 | OSF which is said to have already started coding for the GAIA specification , has slated the middle of next year to deliver the first snapshots of the specification . |
| 9 | But it was the scientist alone who could make sense of the discoveries , and late eighteenth-century naturalists had already begun to puzzle over the bones of gigantic elephant-like creatures found both in America and in Europe . |
| 10 | The Prelude , which is , in fact , the nearest thing to the great philosophical poem which Coleridge hoped Wordsworth would produce , was mostly written while Coleridge was in Malta , and it is as an exposition of Wordsworth 's ideas that we must read it ; for Coleridge , as we shall see , had already begun to return to orthodox Christianity and in 1803 was shocked at Wordsworth 's irreverence : ‘ O dearest William ! |
| 11 | He had already begun publishing on electromagnetism , and in a paper of 1847 he suggested an analogy between an incompressible solid and a magnetic field . |
| 12 | In the United States , prompted by new legal rights to challenge developments on environmental grounds , critics of nuclear power had already begun to object to the licensing of new reactors . |
| 13 | Endill had already begun thinking of escape . |
| 14 | When they left the following day , the eastern end of the park had already begun to fill with tattered bivouacs and shelters of thorn and tarpaulin . |
| 15 | But a wind of change had already begun to blow at Newport Pagnell . |
| 16 | Signs of the tenacious Selina ambition had already begun to show at the age of 13 when she secured her first job on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 17 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |
| 18 | One possibility is that he had already begun to campaign in western Saxon territory and that additional troops joined him from his supporters there . |
| 19 | He had already begun contributing to the Gardeners ' Chronicle . |
| 20 | It 's thought a fault in an electric fire set light to the downstairts bedroom — when the twins father Mark Bettinson smelt smoke flames had already begun to creep towards the twins cots . |
| 21 | Scotland had its own Royal Commission established in the same year ; in Wales consultations had already begun leading to the appointment of a working party ( Wood 1976 : 119 ; Alexander 1928b:29 ) ; and Northern Ireland was still governed in these matters from Stormont . |
| 22 | Yanto had already begun to laugh at Sooty 's serious face . |
| 23 | From that school of mingled games , friendliness and lessons I went with but a short pause to one where lessons were business , and a very serious business indeed since most of the scholars had already begun to work in offices and came here in the evenings to qualify themselves to earn more money and more leisure . |
| 24 | Molly drove skilfully back down the road , taking the short cut to what she had already grown to think of as home . |
| 25 | Some of the workers in Glasgow , he said , had already decided to relocate to the Midlands to take up the offer of employment there . |
| 26 | She was going to offer him an armchair to sit in but he had already decided to settle at the pinewood table . |
| 27 | Liz 's education was to take more than three years : she had already decided to specialize in psychiatry , and knew she still had a long journey ahead of her . |
| 28 | It must be pointed out that we had already hoped to make at least £1000 at the Annual Reunion so this means a bigger and better Christmas Fayre and a rise in the cost of tickets . |
| 29 | On the other matter , however , inciting unrest in the city which had already led to trouble between Moslem and Copt and might still lead to massacre , Andrus was , if not the prime mover , then definitely a prime mover , and for that he must be made to pay . |
| 30 | Flynn , she found , had already gone recruiting in Hertford . |