Example sentences of "already [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hurries to the Male Staff toilet and finds Rupert Sutcliffe and Bob Busby already ensconced at the three-stall urinal . |
| 2 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 3 | Shares had already fallen at the end of last year after Fisons estimated that the withdrawal of Opticrom and Imferon from the US markets had cost the company about £65m . |
| 4 | The use of sacred measure and proportion has been developed by many researchers to postulate a geometrical pattern across the land , extending Watkins ' ley theory into wider concepts of ‘ landscape geometry ’ , and we have already looked at the work of Tyler , Lawton and Koop in exploring wider patterns . |
| 5 | Local authority housing provides an example of the former and we have already looked at the role of charges in the NHS . |
| 6 | We have already looked at the movement of settlements , changes in plan and form etc. in the landscape , but nevertheless for most of today 's settlements the criteria which applied when the settlement originated are no longer relevant . |
| 7 | Dwayne and the English connection appear to have confederates already installed at the Valhalla Motel . |
| 8 | Now the vital laser needed to treat children with disfiguring birthmarks is already installed at the Ulster Hospital at Dundonald . |
| 9 | Agriculture Minister Sotiris Hatzikakis had already resigned at the end of November . |
| 10 | We have already stressed at the end of Chapter 6 how important it is to record your daily weight and also to chart it and plot it on a monthly graph . |
| 11 | Trained in watercolours by his father , the precocious Bonington had already exhibited at the Liverpool Academy before his family left England . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's already ruined at the moment . |
| 13 | The Pompidou Centre will be showing a selection of the Matisse works already seen at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , from 25 February to 21 June . |
| 14 | Already featured at the British Science Museum , the Bristol Exploratory , in Singapore ( where one onlooker built the penny pagoda , above ) , and even with one of Faraday 's original electromagnets at the Royal Institution , the clever currency will next appear at the Edinburgh Science Festival next week . |
| 15 | Fred Jarvis of the National Union of Teachers has already hinted at the fundamental difficulty which arises when the professional is set within tightly prescribed guidelines . |
| 16 | By this date Ludford was probably already employed at the collegiate church of St Stephen , Westminster , and on 30 September 1527 , as already in occupation of his offices there , he was confirmed in his appointment as verger of the chapel . |
| 17 | Special consideration of alternative strategies , such as nutritional or surgical intervention , is warranted for children who are already stunted at the time of diagnosis and therefore need extra catch up growth . |
| 18 | The techniques for handing , displaying , interpreting , transferring and reformulating information already introduced at the previous levels will be invoked for more advanced tasks . |
| 19 | If the goods had already perished at the time the contract was made , then section 6 is the appropriate section . |
| 20 | She looked up , startled to find that they had already arrived at the top floor , and were now walking down the corridor towards her apartment . |
| 21 | The descriptions are a mixture of quotations from texts which were already known at the time of writing , when Rahewin completed the work of Otto von Freising . |
| 22 | The deceased replied that he had already signed at the top of the document . |
| 23 | Work has already started at the Bowness development in Grangemouth to provide 65 two and three bedroom houses and to refurbish 18 council flats . |
| 24 | An exhibition 's already started at the library and tomorrow evening , a Vera Lynn look-alike and a sound-alike will be visiting the library with a fifty piece band . |
| 25 | If the tendency towards crime is not seen as being already determined at the point of conception through the genes we inherit , then the obvious conclusion is that it must be subsequently acquired in some way . |
| 26 | If , moreover , at this early date , sizeable Nazarean enclaves existed as far distant as Syria , one can not ignore the possibility that they had come into being prior to Jesus 's death and were already established at the time of the Crucifixion . |
| 27 | One of the regions adjacent to Surrey which is referred to in Frithuwald 's charter is Sonning , the province of the Suningas in east Berkshire , and it is possible that one of the three sub-kings who witnessed with Frithuwald ruled here , in which case Wulfhere 's presence in Berkshire was already established at the time of Frithuwald 's grant . |
| 28 | Hartley Coleridge , already quoted at the head of this chapter , had the rights of it : |