Example sentences of "as [be] already " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is one of the fastest growing sports in Europe , but if we do not act now we will see the same kind of draconian measures becoming necessary in Britain as are already being undertaken in Europe . |
| 2 | If the tendency towards crime is not seen as being already determined at the point of conception through the genes we inherit , then the obvious conclusion is that it must be subsequently acquired in some way . |
| 3 | As were already stretched to the limit with er |
| 4 | Britain and Hong Kong claim they are eager for international agencies to monitor the resettlement of the illegal migrants , just as is already being done for those boat people who have returned voluntarily . |
| 5 | And this need not be just the prerogative ( and burden ) of leaders but develop into a healthy mutuality between lay people , as is already happening in various parts of the Church . |
| 6 | As is already known , a high proportion of our samples had died or gone into institutions one year from their referral to the psychogeriatrician . |
| 7 | Other mitigating measures could involve the encouragement of private concerns to develop their own plantations , as is already occurring on a small scale , not only in the rainforest regions but also in savanna regions where Eucalyptus is being successfully cultivated to provide fuelwood and poles . |
| 8 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |
| 9 | More significantly , as is already clear from our discussion so far , functional psychosis also contains within itself a potential for the very opposite of deficit , the occasional capacity for superlative functioning and high achievement ; this is the paradox of which we wrote in the previous chapter . |
| 10 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 11 | ‘ Their effect will be to require the same accuracy of description in relation to property sales as is already required of sellers of goods and other service providers . |
| 12 | Instead he believes priorities have to be drawn up and stuck to even if that means low-priority areas are ignored altogether as is already the case in some parts of the country . |
| 13 | As is already happening in electrochemical technology , the provision of product packages , backed by technical expertise and know-how , could well point the way to the future . |
| 14 | Mozart was the master of the concerto form , as is already apparent in some of his earlier works , to be performed at this year 's Festival . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , as was already thought , previous work on MVS Repository has been scrapped and the mainframe software is being rewritten from scratch so it can integrate with the networked repository . |
| 16 | It will be shown , as was already briefly hinted earlier on , that the concept of objective order is inseparable from the idea of a plurality of witnessing selves — a " self " to be understood here in the sense of an experienced unity of biographical time , not as some kind of substantival entity — and the idea of error ; and that the latter ideas in turn can be clarified only through a careful study of the nature of language . |
| 17 | From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) . |
| 18 | It was not necessary to break up large collective and state farms ( as was already happening in parts of Georgia and the Ukraine ) to give peasants more incentive ; they could form associations or joint-stock companies or leaseholders . |
| 19 | In Malaysia , Sabah and Sarawak were expected to have almost no virgin forest left by the end of the century , as was already the case in Thailand and the Philippines . |
| 20 | 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 . |