Example sentences of "what is already [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is what is already done by the intelligent undergraduate who , when recommended to read a work by that great scholar Jones of St. Jude 's , goes round to a friend at St. Jude 's to ask what sort of chap Jones is , and what bees he has in his bonnet .
2 In the South East developable land is scarce and there is a powerful environmental lobby ranged against further development of what is already perceived as a congested and overheated local economy .
3 It amounts to £92.5 million over five years which is supposed to be additional money to what is already budgeted .
4 There is also the tiresome coyness over what is already feigned , which leads Thorpe to insert parentheses and question marks in the 1830s rioters ' despositions , and footnotes in a 1950s sound recording to the effect that five seconds have been lost ‘ due to electrical interference ’ .
5 To be European in Italy is a logical extension of what is already assumed to be one 's natural multiple identity within a family , a city , a region and a nation .
6 In this cognitive behaviour , what is already apprehended is used as a taking-off point for some idea which is rooted but not present in the evidence being examined .
7 Although it is early days and the team will not be reporting back until March , what is already becoming clear to it is that , unless small firms are encouraged to continue training chartered accountants , the smaller end of the profession may not have a future at all .
8 These observations may reflect what is already happening , yet their implicit optimism needs to be tempered by the realities of this kind of economic growth ( see also Kasarda , 1985 for a similar assessment of the US context ) .
9 ‘ You can see what is already happening . ’
10 Are examination syllabuses seen as an unwelcome intrusion into the normal pattern of teaching in those subjects , or are they a natural extension of what is already happening ?
11 The theme of this paper is that knowledge of soil conservation techniques should be improved , but the most pressing need is to put into practice what is already known .
12 Thus , an idea on a social form of activity must be related to what is already known in sociology if our research is to make a genuine contribution to sociological knowledge .
13 Considering what is already known about muscle , it makes good sense .
14 The best installations have demonstrated what is already known — that gasifiers can be made to work ; the worst have been total failures .
15 There are growing signs of a desire to abandon the descriptive approach to this material and to examine unknown fields rather than continuing to prove by alternative means what is already known .
16 In order to communicate , the mass media must ‘ infer what is already known , as a present or abstract structure … but [ this structure ] is a construction and interpretation about the world ’ .
17 Instead there is an attempt to consolidate what is already known .
18 Firstly , it should be possible to find out what is already known from the local Sites and Monuments Record or Royal Commission for Historical Monuments/Ordnance Survey records .
19 It gives a blow-by-blow account of the stages involved in action research , with an early emphasis on reflection , finding out what is already known elsewhere and refining research questions .
20 The project is concerned therefore with such things as the ways teachers explain new topics and concepts to children , the ways they check on children 's understanding , the kinds of questions that teachers and children ask , the assumptions that are made about what is already known , and the kinds of misunderstandings that arise and how these are dealt with
21 The aim is to provide an account of the stages by which a face becomes integrated into our ‘ database ’ of known people , an account which will build upon what is already known about face recognition .
22 In fact my honourable friend , the parliamentary under secretary of state for the department of trade and industry who 's responsible for deregulation is also the sponsoring minister for one of these orders , namely the one on the insurance companies , and secondly our intention is that the cost here should be negligible , or nil er in that they do n't go beyond er what is already required or or possible by way of a right to report , here we 're imposing a duty to report .
23 Instead of setting up situations either in the laboratory or in the field , the researcher studies what is already going on .
24 There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps .
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