Example sentences of "[is] already a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There 's already a school for boys in Morton , and now I want to open one for girls , so I 've rented a building for it , with a small cottage for the schoolteacher . |
| 3 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 4 | You 've got the psychoanalytical approaches which came out of Vienna , you 've got behaviourism at the 1920 's and then you 've got the emergence of cognitive in the fifties and sixties , so there 's already a sort of historical structure there . |
| 5 | The simple fact of referring to something not present is already a separation from the immediate context , while the concepts and terms employed in any language involve degrees of such separation . |
| 6 | Live project work is already a feature of many courses at Napier . |
| 7 | Some people may feel that Rawls ' original position is already a description of a process of compromise , of settling for the second best . |
| 8 | If the ‘ closed ’ style of management described above is already a problem in many schools , then there are a great many more where such a style might permeate the existing decision-making process once delegated budgets are in place . |
| 9 | Imaginary time is already a commonplace of science fiction . |
| 10 | An application to the bishop for permission may be met with either incomprehension or with the calm statement that there is already a church in the neighbouring parish . |
| 11 | The game is already a best-seller in Japan . |
| 12 | That 's the title of a new book which is already a best-seller in the United States . |
| 13 | The sister comes out of her office holding a small night case and a black garbage bag tied with string , bulging and misshapen like an over-stuffed cushion ; there is already a split down one side . |
| 14 | The church is already a part of heaven . |
| 15 | The Company Command Post is already a hive of activity as the daily reports are being collated on a computer , ready for transmission to Battalion Headquarters . |
| 16 | The home-help service , to all intents and purposes , is already a service for the very old ( ibid. : 131 ) , and so also is the meals-on-wheels service ( ibid . ) . |
| 17 | But there is already a head of steam in parliament to make the proposed voluntary takeover code legally binding . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Or Curacao , or Surinam , which is already a member of the United Nations ? |
| 20 | He is already a member of the British junior team , having been chosen two years earlier than most of the others . |
| 21 | It will already be clear that in the contemporary convergence , with its deliberate extension and interlocking of hitherto separate ( if always related ) senses of culture , what is now often called ‘ cultural studies ’ is already a branch of general sociology . |
| 22 | The indigenous population is already a minority in its own land with over seven million Han Chinese colonists settled in Tibet to minimize China 's population overspill . |
| 23 | As there is already a stop in approximately the location you describe I regret that I am still unclear as to what your request comprises . |
| 24 | The firm is supposed to be doing a RISC-based Unix mainframe and is already a licensee of HP 's PA chip which it uses in its 3050 line of Unix workstations . |
| 25 | There is already a feeling in some people 's minds that in athletics , as in so many other aspects of life , what can be done with the human body will be done , and that we might as well let them get on with it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | that I would also put it on in relation to your , to , to , to , to , to your Lordship and to considering the matter in interim , your Lordship has er , erm , er heard er the information that had been put forward er by the society , you have seen the er information about the position the commission has taken , your Lordship knows that the commission was informed about both the act and all the relevant byelaws in the present case , the precursored , the central fund byelaw was informally proved by the commission Mrs has sworn on affidavit that the society has never been given any indication that the matters in issue in the European Law Defence are contrary to competition rules and your Lordship also has the answer by the commission to the European parliament which is exhibited to Mrs affidavit and which I took your Lordship to earlier and of which judicial note can be taken by virtual section three , two of the European communities act , so my Lord we say that there is already a body of information which provides a basis if one has to consider what should be done in the interim of saying that in the interim the application of the act and the application for byelaws should be maintained , the third element my Lord is the intimate link between the recoveries of money for the central fund , er under the byelaw and the implementation of the United Kingdom 's operations under directive seventy three , two , three , nine , we 've been over this before my Lord erm , my Lord is , is aware of the intimate link er between the er recovery of monies to central fund , the maintenance solvency and the paying of policy holders . |
| 28 | So he is already a celebrity in island cricket . |
| 29 | Consider finally how even the man of knowledge , when he compels his spirit to knowledge which is counter to the inclination of his spirit and frequently also to the desires of his heart — by saying No , that is , when he would like to affirm , love , worship — disposes as an artist in and transfigurer of cruelty ; in all taking things seriously and thoroughly indeed there is already a violation , a desire to hurt the fundamental will of the spirit , which ceaselessly strives for appearance and the superficial — in all desire to know there is already a drop of cruelty . |
| 30 | A star of the chess world at just ten Jay Stockham is already a star in the world of junior British chess and he is only ten . |