Example sentences of "[noun] were already [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pushers were already selling to children and crime would soar as addicts sought money for drugs . |
| 2 | There were reports that some ministers , less optimistic in the face of evidence that a number of her supporters were already defecting to Heseltine , were seeking to stabilise the situation by holding out the prospect that Mrs Thatcher might retire voluntarily in the spring , making an orderly succession possible then . |
| 3 | The widespread implications of the Famine were already coming to the surface . |
| 4 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 5 | We know , however , that preliminary rumbles of the Hercynian orogeny were already beginning to be heard at the end of Dinantian times . |
| 6 | The remainder of these unfortunates were already contributing to family incomes as labourers , shop boys , glovers , house-servants , rag collectors and so on . |
| 7 | The singer was ready to start , and some couples were already dancing to her tapes . |
| 8 | On the one hand , Edinburgh was far less prevalent and oppressive , in the eyes of the kingdom at large , than Paris or London were already coming to be ; great and small in the localities were on the whole left alone to live out their lives . |
| 9 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 10 | Air quality manager Peter Shawcross said the results were currently being examined and evaluated and that interesting facts were already coming to light . |