Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] already a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCHOOL bosses have barred tragic cancer victim Lucy Roberts from the school all her friends will attend — even though she is already a pupil in its nursery . |
| 2 | She is already a megastar in Japan , where she makes frequent visits for personal and TV appearances . |
| 3 | She is already a lacemaker of great promise , and this autumn embarks on a City and Guilds course in lacemaking . |
| 4 | If it 's already a bungalow . |
| 5 | Miki was worried that this important development might be passed off as a fad , a ‘ scene ’ people will get tired of : ‘ To some people it 's already a gimmick , but it 's very important , a lot of people have a lot to say . |
| 6 | It 's already a fortnight since my birthday — life seems to get ‘ hecticker ’ and ‘ hecticker ’ . |
| 7 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 8 | It is already a platitude to say that ‘ governments must carry their peoples with them . ’ |
| 9 | In this assertion of possibility , against all the learned habits of resignation and scepticism , it is already a definition of practical hope . |
| 10 | It is already a business committed to export , with 80 per cent of the film going abroad and 30 per cent of that destined for continental Europe . |
| 11 | It is already a community of 12 members , and it could be a community of 20 by the beginning off the next century . |
| 12 | He is already a member of the British junior team , having been chosen two years earlier than most of the others . |
| 13 | So he is already a celebrity in island cricket . |
| 14 | Of all the contenders Armiger is certainly best placed to impress , as he is already a Group One winner and was among the favourites for the Derby until injury forced him out of the Epsom showpiece . |
| 15 | Pauline Kael , who called it a ‘ fascist classic ’ , thought that ‘ Hoffman , notoriously a cerebral actor , projects thought before movement ; he 's already a cartoon of an intellectual . |
| 16 | And the bantem of the opera … he 's only twelve , but he 's already a star . |