Example sentences of "was already [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the charisma was already fuelled in large part by that sexual eagerness and masculine vulnerability which beat across the footlights and through the lens for years to come . |
| 2 | Making the announcement , which follows two years of uncertainty about the zoo 's future , Dr Gipps said £2.5 million was already assured for the capital project which would begin in the next financial year . |
| 3 | Both his uncle and his mother made substantial loans to the new firm , which was already engaged in a large contract for John Bibby & Sons . |
| 4 | There followed talks between Kim and Lee Ki Taek , the leader of the eight-member Democratic Party ( which was already engaged in merger negotiations with the PPD — see p. 37375 for its emergence following formation of DLP ) concerning a co-ordinated mass resignation . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the damage was already done by the time Richard was fully recovered , and in spite of his commendable efforts to rescue what was left of the business he had built from his own sweat , it was far too late . |
| 6 | He was already beneficed in the diocese of York , for in 1264 he had obtained a papal dispensation to hold the rectory of Welwick in Holderness with two other benefices with cure of souls . |
| 7 | It was darker indoors than out and the oil lamp was already lit in the hall . |
| 8 | But she was already locked within the power of his desire , within the focus of that concentrated attention that had held her in thrall before . |
| 9 | Wilson , who was not due to face a gubernatorial election until 1994 , but whose position as a possible future Republican presidential candidate was already damaged by his decision to raise taxes in 1991 , had been adamant that the deficit should be rectified through public expenditure cuts rather than by further tax increases . |
| 10 | Such arguments suggest that the perception of the sodomite was already implicated in the constructions of gender and sexual difference , and , through them , of identity , subjectivity , and social ordering more generally , and the anxieties attendant upon all these things . |
| 11 | His major territorial acquisition , the duchy of Lancaster estates in the north west , was already staffed by royal servants who would now look to the duke while retaining their links with the crown . |
| 12 | His major territorial acquisition , the duchy of Lancaster estates in the north west , was already staffed by royal servants who would now look to the duke while retaining their links with the crown . |
| 13 | Her mistress was already dressed for dinner . |
| 14 | Probably he was already dressed for the part in a brown peat-carrier 's suit : he had been anticipating the trip for at least a month . |
| 15 | It was five-thirty in the morning and she was already dressed for the day . |
| 16 | Arthur Peeble was already dressed in his outdoor coat , his hat in his hand , when she went through the tobacco store-room and into the shop . |
| 17 | A rich and powerful odour , not unpleasant outside here in the yard where the air was already scented with manure and compost , with the melons ripening in the wire garde-manger , with whatever was rotting in the dustbins . |
| 18 | The evidence she is said recently to have conveyed to ANC intelligence officers against Mrs Mandela throws darker shadows over what was already seen as a murky trial . |
| 19 | Similar reactions were reported throughout Africa , where Mandela was already seen as a people 's hero at the time of his imprisonment in 1962 . |
| 20 | In narrower military terms , the Sandys ’ Reformation , without which it would not have been possible to contemplate ending National Service , was already seen in Whitehall as premature , if not wholly mistaken . |
| 21 | A strike of about twenty-five staff in the sterile supplies stores had dramatically reduced activity , which was already hampered by the union policy of refusing admission to any but emergency cases . |
| 22 | Despite the early hour , the arched gateway into the cemetery was already jammed with chai wallahs and snack sellers trying to push their barrows through the narrow entrance . |
| 23 | The theses that Latin American socio-economic structures could not be regarded as simply a local variant of European feudalism , and that the agrarian economy was already incorporated into the capitalist system were restated and developed , and the argument that the revolution in Latin America could only be socialist reasserted . |
| 24 | Taplow , standing on a high stool , was already tied to the stake , his arms and legs tightly pinioned , head and face partially covered by a white fool 's hood . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the details showed that the building was derelict , and permission was already secured for it to be demolished . |
| 26 | She found that his dark brown gaze was already fixed on her , and she swallowed very hard . |
| 27 | My loyalty was already tested by the thought of subscribing and giving you some guaranteed income . |
| 28 | However , we have already pointed out , by implication , one very important syntactic consequence : only the ascriptive adjectives are eligible to appear predicatively , that is , in a position like that of hungry in : ( 19 ) the antelopes are hungry As was already indicated in Chapter 1 , and as we shall see in more detail in Chapter 3 , predicative position is the surface structure which expresses the intensional relation of assignment , and assignment does require that the property of the adjective should be construed as applied to the entity of the subject noun phrase . |
| 29 | By the mid-seventeenth century the rather humid Cunningham region of northern Ayrshire in southwest Scotland was already noted for its Dunlop breed of dairy cattle ( and their Dunlop cheese ) . |
| 30 | The Birmingham Liberal Association was already regarded as a model of efficiency , following the success of its ‘ vote as you are told ’ campaign at the 1868 general election , which had secured the return of Liberal members for all of Birmingham 's three seats , but Schnadhorst fine-tuned its organization to an even higher pitch . |