Example sentences of "already [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torches were already flaring on the castle walls when the first wagons carrying the dismantled mangonels rumbled across the drawbridge . |
| 2 | I already got past the . |
| 3 | The finance director , John Precious , said he had already pencilled in an unchanged 1993 tax rate of 37 per cent , pegged by existing US proposals on the tax of foreign corporations . |
| 4 | Catkins were already fluttering on the nut hedge behind Albert 's house and the sky was a pale translucent blue , as tender as a thrush 's egg-shell . |
| 5 | By then , though , the television cameras were in place for the wedding , the cake had been baked , the crowds were already gathering on the pavement and the sense of happy anticipation was almost palpable . |
| 6 | This suggests that he was already intended for a career in the Church . |
| 7 | The teacher asks if any of those present have already travelled in the West and some of the class claim knowledge of the dangers and difficulties of the journey . |
| 8 | In the early stages of the disease sufferer from alcoholism may be still waiting for the " real " party to start when everyone else is already intoxicated after a much smaller intake . |
| 9 | Loudon 's avowed objective , ‘ the amelioration of the great mass of society in all countries ’ , may appear to a modem reader grandiose , but to the Victorian reformer a bloodless revolution in housing seemed the best way of avoiding the carnage already witnessed on the European mainland . |
| 10 | Have we not already witnessed on the television his Scargill-type debate on the floor of the House during MPs ' Question Time ? |
| 11 | Here , if we anticipate the arguments of later chapters , we would find Henry Fielding already mulling over the fall of decadent Rome and its lesson for Old England , and warning in his Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers ( 1751 ) of the disastrous effects of ‘ too frequent and expensive diversions among the lower kind of people ’ . |
| 12 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 13 | By his forties he was already recognized as a future bishop . |
| 14 | At twenty-two , he was already recognized within the ballet world as the most gifted dance creator of his generation , and George Balanchine commissioned him to make a work for New York City Ballet . |
| 15 | The previous Government , however , had already pointed to the need to revitalize urban economies , and at first the shift was more rhetorical than real . |
| 16 | We have already pointed to the way in which stratification may well inhibit the full development of talent in a society as a result of inequality of opportunity , which inevitably means that a stratified society is not utilising its talent resources fully . |
| 17 | The Ukrainian parliament ( Supreme Rada ) on April 29 had passed a bill , already ratified by the Crimean Supreme Soviet , delineating Crimea 's rights , including control over natural resources , land and economic reform . |
| 18 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 19 | He hurries to the Male Staff toilet and finds Rupert Sutcliffe and Bob Busby already ensconced at the three-stall urinal . |
| 20 | The Christmas tree was already ensconced in the drawing-room , so they had arranged to have tea in the dining-room , where a lovely fire was blazing . |
| 21 | ‘ I was courteously received at the Guildhall , but found , to my chagrin , my lord of Gloucester already ensconced in the chair of state . |
| 22 | A thin moon is already hanging over the river and the swallows are feeding very high , a sign of continuing fine weather . |
| 23 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 24 | Yet urban , industrial polarization had already developed to a considerable degree before 1917 , creating awareness of the political centre among the more sophisticated peasant strata such as village teachers , zemstvo clerks , bookkeepers , doctors ' and veterinarians ' assistants . |
| 25 | A critical relationship had already developed between the PLO and the Palestinians of the territories . |
| 26 | In this article Riffaterre argues from a position already developed in a series of papers written in the late fifties and early sixties . |
| 27 | It can be argued that a fairly radical Type II ‘ internal market ’ has already developed in the care of the elderly , where much provision is private but much of the funding is public . |
| 28 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 29 | Compact should build on work already developed in the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) . |
| 30 | It can be argued that a fairly radical Type II ‘ Internal Market ’ has already developed in the care of the elderly , where much provision is private but much of the funding is public . |