Example sentences of "[was/were] already [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act of 1988 provided for the establishment of a new register in which thereafter all British fishing vessels were to be registered , including those which were already registered in the old general register maintained under the Act of 1894 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Abdel Ghani on Feb. 27 confirmed that more foreign workers were expected to come to North Yemen to carry out jobs including refuse collection and disposal , in which Somali , Sudanese and Filipino workers were already employed . |
| 3 | The fact that the three girls who were already employed at Number 147 just giggled whenever I gave any instructions , only made the appointment more pressing . |
| 4 | The English were already noted for their addiction to beer — a luxury perhaps to the peasant , but a luxury very widely consumed . |
| 5 | The cracks were already beginning to show at the moment of their greatest triumph . |
| 6 | It was as if the upward gesture wished to show this golden piece of earth the direction of flight , while the white jasmine bushes were already beginning to turn into wings . |
| 7 | The new railway companies like the ‘ Glasgow to Garnkirk ’ were already beginning to spread a web of track and sleepers from the city to the mines and forges , beaches and bathing huts of the West . |
| 8 | The two were already beginning to create an atmosphere . |
| 9 | We were already beginning to try and live by the diet . |
| 10 | The emerging strains in the Centre-Right Bloc in the party were already beginning to show in July 1928 when Bukharin wrote his now celebrated ‘ Notes of An Economist ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I am so glad , ’ wrote Felicity three months later , when the meadows were golden with cowslips and bluebells were already beginning to displace the primroses in the woods , ‘ to hear that ‘ Factota ’ is such a success . |
| 12 | By the 1850s the tensions brought about by social , economic and political change were already beginning to pose a serious threat not merely to the rule of the Tokugawa but to the system itself . |
| 13 | By the time , in 1909 , the Majority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress recommended that the relief of poverty should remain primarily in the hands of voluntary organizations , such organizations were already beginning to decline from their late-nineteenth-century peak . |
| 14 | They were already beginning to stink , this was summertime , you understand . |
| 15 | Heads were already beginning to shake . |
| 16 | We know , however , that preliminary rumbles of the Hercynian orogeny were already beginning to be heard at the end of Dinantian times . |
| 17 | In other words , long-term interest rates were already beginning to fall . |
| 18 | And if he had got little enough out of that interview , at least he had lobbed one small , accurate pebble into the middle of the pool of their tranquillity , and its ripples were already beginning to spread outwards . |
| 19 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 20 | Mrs Grandison 's pointed Italian-style shoes were already beginning to pinch her left foot . |
| 21 | Mary brought out a rough-and-ready picnic on a doth and we sat under old apple trees on which the apples were already beginning to glow with ripeness . |
| 22 | As Professor Duckham has pointed out , the combined mileage was not great until after 1790 ( up to then it was well under a thousand miles ) but in terms of strategic linking they were already beginning to turn the " golden key … to unlock the riches of the inland coalfields " . |
| 23 | Across on Platform 2 , the train from Paddington was just pulling in ; and passengers were already beginning to stream across the new pedestrian bridge as Morse and Lewis first ascended , then descended the steps , darting challenging looks around them as they dodged their way through the bustling contra-flow . |
| 24 | In fact both the US State Department and the Joint Chiefs were already beginning to rank this region immediately after Europe in their list of strategic priorities . |
| 25 | Rich Americans , of course , whether healthy or ill — or more precisely their wives and daughters — made tracks for the centres of European culture , though by the end of our period the millionaires were already beginning to establish their pattern of summer residence in custom-built Xanadus along the stern coasts of New England . |
| 26 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 27 | It was not a fun place any more and doors were already slamming shut to the hundreds of young hopefuls hanging around outside the studio gates about the time when Nicholson began his search for work . |
| 28 | Whether the quartet actively looked around for a site is not known but in 1905 they formed a syndicate by joining with two other men — J. A. Rawlins and F. E. Theodor — who were already buying and selling land for development in the Shiplake and Harpsden areas and whose earlier purchases included Bolney Court , Lower Bolney Farm and Upper Bolney Farm . |
| 29 | Neither Matthew nor the girl was aware that she had come into the room , and as Beth 's eyes went from the unique expression of wonder on the boy 's handsome face , to the girl 's slender form … the small budding breasts , and the young limbs that were already shaping into those of a young woman … a strange sense of revulsion shivered through her . |
| 30 | By the time Charles Dickens got there in 1842 , trains were already careering through America : |