Example sentences of "it [verb] already [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that it has already achieved positive results and it shows just what British industry can do . |
| 2 | But in industrial countries in particular — or in countries that abut industrial countries — the rain has been growing steadily more acidic in recent decades , to the point where it has already done severe damage to ancient buildings and statues , where it is has virtually destroyed vast numbers of trees in continental Europe ( notably Germany ) and killed most of the life , including the fish and crayfish , in many of the lakes and rivers of Scandinavia . |
| 3 | The council would not say what the ‘ procedure ’ for dealing with stores will be over the next three Sundays until the matter is discussed by the Environment and Public Health Committee , but it has already authorised legal action against large stores which continue to open . |
| 4 | It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces . |
| 5 | It has already ruled that race should play no part in jury selection . |
| 6 | Nippon Steel Corp has now reached agreement for Hitachi Ltd to transfer to it the technology to manufacture 4M-bit memory chips : the chips will be made at NMB Semiconductor Ltd , which will become Nippon Steel Semiconductor Corp when the steel company acquires the Minebea Co unit later this month ; Hitachi will take some of the parts and sell them under its own name ; Nippon Steel says it has already concluded similar agreements with Intel Corp and Sony Corp on production of other types of memory chip . |
| 7 | Rolfe & Nolan Computer Services Plc is to pay $1.675m — $465,000 in cash , the balance in 327,027 new shares — for the 80.1% of Brokerage Systems Inc , Chicago that it does not already own , and says it wants the company to meet the needs of the US operations of its European customers : it says it has already created automated links between its own system and the RISC system of Brokerage Systems Inc , and that the links are to be developed further . |
| 8 | Last year it only sold 5,500 houses in 12 months , but this year it has already sold 4,160 houses in the first five months . |
| 9 | ‘ It has already found numerous ways of making changes at A-level acceptable . |
| 10 | Auspex says it has already shipped 12 systems , worth $4.5m , to DEC customers around the world . |
| 11 | It has already addressed many opinion formers throughout Scotland , has discussed its activities with many prominent organisations , and is developing close working relationships with local Quality Forums established by Scottish Enterprise and with Local Enterprise Companies . |
| 12 | MCI Communications Corp signed a multi-year agreement to use Corning Inc 's dispersion-shifted optical fibre it its US-wide long distance network : it says it has already installed dispersion-shifted fibre in routes from Sacramento to Seattle and San Antonio to Austin and will be laying the fibre in a new route between Salt Lake City and Chicago scheduled for completion by year-end ; the new cable requires fewer signal boosters , cutting equipment requirements and system costs while raising reliability of the network . |
| 13 | Against this , however , it has already identified some areas where it has no plans for expansion , including commercial fire risks in Germany and brokered motor vehicle insurance in Spain . |
| 14 | This bird , born around 1762 , lived in such comfortable circumstances that it had already reared eight broods when , to the consternation of its noble owner , it suddenly developed the plumage and spurs of a male and thereafter refused to lay another egg . |
| 15 | A spokesman for IBM France said it had already earmarked 1,500 job cuts for 1993 through voluntary redundancies , but did not rule out further measures if the market deteriorated . |
| 16 | It had already formed local pacts with the SzDSz in five counties , but on March 30 Antall announced that the HDF had formed an electoral pact with the Smallholders and the Christian Democratic People 's Party whereby the three parties would support the best placed candidate in each constituency . |
| 17 | The AWB claimed in 1990 that it had already trained 12,000 men . |
| 18 | It had already attacked two people who escaped serious injury . |
| 19 | It had already produced great wars and upheavals ; even greater ones were to come . |
| 20 | It 's already got fifty pound off . |