Example sentences of "have already [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downing Street sources have already ruled out any relaxation of the public spending limit . |
| 2 | Well actually I live just outside Shilton. erm they keep saying that it 's Shilton airfield , actually it 's not on the airfield at all — as you will know , Mr. Hayworth 's got planning permission for a golf course on the airfield — it 's Scrubs Lane , Shilton , and actually they 've already the Council have already turned down two applications for caravan sites there anyway erm because it 's unsuitable and yet they think that they you know that it 's going to be suitable for gipsies to live down there . |
| 3 | A federal court has ordered that this must be done by June 1st ; voters have already turned down one plan . |
| 4 | Staff have already set up eight extra beds , and other hospitals are preparing to help out . |
| 5 | Tory Euro-sceptics have already put down hundreds of amendments to the Bill , which could produce a similar confidence vote like last night 's day after day . |
| 6 | Most managers have already used up that leeway since share option schemes took off in 1985 . |
| 7 | Apart from anything else , coffee is not drunk by the Chinese , which makes me very glad I bought my packets of Nescafe , and rather annoyed that I did n't bring more , as I have already used up more than a third of my coffee . |
| 8 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
| 9 | They have already knocked out First Division West Ham and Chelsea and , in this cluttered sporting weekend , Norwich could be another faller . |