Example sentences of "[noun prp] was already [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ceauşescu was already the heir-apparent and perhaps hoped to improve his chances of taking over sooner rather than later by siding with the pro-Soviet lobby . |
| 2 | Richard was already a good shot , a patient fisherman and a brave , if occasionally reckless , rider , but competence in all these sports had come to him so easily that he had no interest in practising them . |
| 3 | Telemachus was already a thoroughly achieved work . |
| 4 | Ramsey was already a leader , not just in the diocese of Durham , but in the Church . |
| 5 | But , despite Ofahengaue 's interest in playing with Rovigo , Italian rugby has a one import rule and South African goal-kicking wizard Naas Botha was already the club 's overseas player . |
| 6 | England was already an old country by late Saxon times , and the new evidence suggests a relatively large population utilising much of the landscape to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 7 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 8 | At the time of the Beerbohm translation Boulestin was already a writer and journalist of some experience . |
| 9 | Reg was already a well respected backroom boy and came to the club from highflying Walborough Solid Fuel Albion . |
| 10 | Gundobad had contemplated conversion to catholicism , and Sigismund was already a catholic by 515 , when he founded one of the most prestigious of early medieval monasteries , that of St Maurice at Agaune . |
| 11 | Perhaps most alarmingly of all from a Russian point of view , the population of these republics had been increasing very much more rapidly than the all-union average and on some projections was expected to account for 25–30 per cent of the total Soviet population by the end of the century ( the USSR was already the world 's fifth largest Muslim state ) . |
| 12 | Jinnah and Nehru were fully adult before 1914 : Jinnah was already an experienced politician . |
| 13 | By 1832 , and then aged 23 , Robert was already a mariner , living at John Street , Stepney , with his wife Eliza ; they had married the previous year in his mother 's adopted parish , St Leonard 's , Shoreditch — he a bachelor and she a widow . |
| 14 | His cousin John Falconar was already an established Cheapside merchant . |
| 15 | Her elder sister Josepha was already a successful dramatic coloratura soprano in Vienna , but by all accounts Aloysia had even more potential talent . |
| 16 | TALENT : Nicola was already a ballet star at ten |
| 17 | Larsen was already a good twenty feet clear of the ground and making steady progress as he inched his way upwards . |
| 18 | If the battle in which Penda fought Cwichelm and Cynegils at Cirencester , dated to 628 in the Chronicle A ( s.a. 628 ) ( which is almost certainly a few years too early ) , can be safely placed before 633/4 , Penda was already a formidable force before Hatfield , but even if it were to date to a little after 633/4 it still reveals the wide-ranging character of Penda 's early activities . |
| 19 | Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz expressed his country 's readiness to destroy its chemical weapons stocks on condition that Israel did the same and also signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty , to which Iraq was already a party . |
| 20 | Because Peter was already an experienced golfer he knew just how he should stand , how he should hold the club , what sort of swing was required and how hard to hit the ball . |
| 21 | Mr Maxwell backed the 1987 flotation of Eurotunnel , where Mr Lion was already a director , by sub-underwriting about a tenth of the £350m British tranche . |
| 22 | If Elena wished to be a great scientist , then Jiang Qing was already a great actress and by the early 1970s a great creative artist , too ; as well as being the voice of Chairman Mao on most issues . |
| 23 | In 835 , his influence with Louis was being solicited by Hrabanus Maurus : not yet a man , Charles was already a potens . |
| 24 | Yakovlev was already a member . |
| 25 | In Blake 's case there was a further complication in that Blake was already a Russian agent . |
| 26 | Robert Titford was already a member of the ship 's company when the Orynthia docked back in England in mid December , 1836 . |
| 27 | And if the file was to be trusted , Yu was already a force to be reckoned with . |
| 28 | While there is evidence to support some of Peckham 's accusations , especially over appropriations , they were made when Roger was already a sick man in decline : when he died in 1295 he was described as of great age . |
| 29 | Hull was already an important seaport in the twelfth century . |
| 30 | Bertrand de Podensac was already a client of Amanieu VII d'Albret in 1296 and appointed Albret as ‘ tutor de … ma heretere ’ , with full power to exercise custody over his heiress and her lands until she reached the age of fourteen . |