Example sentences of "have already [verb] [adv prt] their " in BNC.

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1 The problem was that in reality it was not so much the Danes who had to decide — they had already made up their minds — as the remainder of the EEC partners who had to face the consequences of the Danish decision .
2 He said the survey also showed that people believed ‘ the experts ’ had already made up their minds and were not interested in others ' views .
3 A spokeswoman for Barclays Bank stressed that British banks had already cut back their lending in response to earlier warnings .
4 For their part , the Muslims had already given up their claim to reunion with Syria as their price for participation in government under the Covenant .
5 To tradition and instinct , de Castelnau could add personal reasons for wanting to hit hard at the enemy ; three of his sons had already laid down their lives for France .
6 In the meantime , the Hercules of RAF Lyneham have already stepped up their workload to the war zone .
7 Apparently they have already made up their minds , to separate one of the odder , although at times stimulating , hybrids of the museum world : the Tate as the gallery of British art and the Tate as the gallery of modern art , and they may well unveil their decision then .
8 Even so , prices are not expected to rise and companies such as John Laing , Barratt and Wimpey have already written down their housing land bank values by up to 20 per cent .
9 A traveller who has come from a nearby town , where the Romans have already given out their orders ( low to equal status ) .
10 Gloucestershire , Oxfordshire , Wiltshire and Hereford and Worcester have already brought in their own bans .
11 Countries in favour of whaling , such as Japan , the Faroe Islands and Norway have already set up their own whaling organisation .
12 But strawberries of any sort , served with cream are one of the great delights of summer and I see that in Cheshire the fruit farms have already put out their ‘ Pick Your Own ’ notices .
13 EC foreign ministers , meeting today , have already drawn up their battle-lines over the much-vexed topic of safeguarding European culture on television .
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