Example sentences of "already [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biersteker , on Nigeria , argues that : ‘ Indigenization thus encourages a comprador role for local business in a society already plagued by strong comprador tendencies ’ ( 1987b , p.272 ) and that ‘ foreign capital has not been seriously threatened by the indigenization exercise ’ ( p.275 ) . |
| 2 | Taylor has already pencilled in Gazza to play his first match for England in the World Cup qualifier against Norway next month . |
| 3 | Competition organiser cheryl Ireland has already pencilled in June 29 as the date for this year 's Pro-Am . |
| 4 | The finance director , John Precious , said he had already pencilled in an unchanged 1993 tax rate of 37 per cent , pegged by existing US proposals on the tax of foreign corporations . |
| 5 | Posing as a London businessman , he has already tricked at least two female estate agents in the North into meeting him alone . |
| 6 | This suggests that he was already intended for a career in the Church . |
| 7 | By the time she was twenty , she had already travelled across Europe , visiting the brothels of London , Paris and Berlin . |
| 8 | The teacher asks if any of those present have already travelled in the West and some of the class claim knowledge of the dangers and difficulties of the journey . |
| 9 | ‘ When a product has already travelled from its place of origin there is n't intended to be any restriction , ’ said Alison Fellows of the European law unit at Dickinson Dees in Newcastle . |
| 10 | At the beginning of the decade the Welsh staff had already swollen to 90 , but within eighteen months had reached 130 . |
| 11 | In the early stages of the disease sufferer from alcoholism may be still waiting for the " real " party to start when everyone else is already intoxicated after a much smaller intake . |
| 12 | On Sept. 8 in Abu Dhabi 26 BCCI executives were arrested including former chief operating officer Swaleh Naqvi , already indicted in New York on July 29 [ see p. 38355 ] . |
| 13 | But unions would be effectively debarred from holding a strike ballot in support of workers already sacked for taking part in unofficial strikes . |
| 14 | The Browning was already holstered under his shoulder . |
| 15 | Loudon 's avowed objective , ‘ the amelioration of the great mass of society in all countries ’ , may appear to a modem reader grandiose , but to the Victorian reformer a bloodless revolution in housing seemed the best way of avoiding the carnage already witnessed on the European mainland . |
| 16 | Have we not already witnessed on the television his Scargill-type debate on the floor of the House during MPs ' Question Time ? |
| 17 | As population pressure slackened after 1650 many series stay roughly constant , which conforms with the trend already witnessed in other series . |
| 18 | In which case , if our relationship was already wrecked beyond repair , I could hold on to the phetam . |
| 19 | The governor says that 's been stopped , but staff are worried that the young offenders they 're having to deal with have come from other prisons already wrecked by riots . |
| 20 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 21 | By his forties he was already recognized as a future bishop . |
| 22 | At twenty-two , he was already recognized within the ballet world as the most gifted dance creator of his generation , and George Balanchine commissioned him to make a work for New York City Ballet . |
| 23 | In the light of this , the way forward in climatic geomorphology , already recognized in studies of fluvial catchments , becomes evident . |
| 24 | The previous Government , however , had already pointed to the need to revitalize urban economies , and at first the shift was more rhetorical than real . |
| 25 | We have already pointed to the way in which stratification may well inhibit the full development of talent in a society as a result of inequality of opportunity , which inevitably means that a stratified society is not utilising its talent resources fully . |
| 26 | The Ukrainian parliament ( Supreme Rada ) on April 29 had passed a bill , already ratified by the Crimean Supreme Soviet , delineating Crimea 's rights , including control over natural resources , land and economic reform . |
| 27 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 28 | I 'd already posted off loads of stuff , but there was quite an accumulation from 6 months , including the tent and camping gear which was only used , in the event , at the Easter rally . |
| 29 | I 've already posted off my suggestions : it 's either Charlie Drake , Seth from Emmerdale Farm or Noel Edmonds . |
| 30 | He hurries to the Male Staff toilet and finds Rupert Sutcliffe and Bob Busby already ensconced at the three-stall urinal . |