Example sentences of "[verb] already [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though one of the youngest dogs in training at Romford — he is still officially classified as a puppy — PJ has already demonstrated a fine turn of paw , winning over 400 metres earlier this month and cracking the 25-second barrier for the first . |
| 2 | The EC has already imposed a two-year ban on BST , the genetically-engineered milk yield booster which the Government supports . |
| 3 | The Government has already appointed a legal team in an effort to push through the building proposals . |
| 4 | But , in tandem with his captain , the bubblingly enthusiastic Nigel Briers , he has already created a strong team spirit , quite possibly thriving on the absence of such departed stars as Chris Lewis . |
| 5 | In either March or April 1994 we hope to welcome our first lady speaker ( apart from Janet Preshous , who has already given a joint talk with her husband . |
| 6 | Nadia has already seen a good deal of Scotland , and also went on a school trip to France and Belgium when pupils of St Mary 's accompanied members of a pensioners ' lunch club to find out about the European Community and the European Parliament . |
| 7 | Northern Ireland has already lost a large number of fine buildings , but Helen believes the tide is now turning . |
| 8 | Midland has already swapped a substantial part of its Chilean debt exposure for equity and has also been involved in similar , private sector , schemes in Argentina . |
| 9 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 10 | This suggests that during a fluent phase a speaker has already done a major part of the planning before beginning to speak a clause . |
| 11 | More is needed from Keith Piper , a nimble , bouncy type of wicketkeeper who has already scored a first-class hundred . |
| 12 | They also argue that the latest draft of the charter , drawn up by President Mitterrand , has already gone a long way to assuage Mrs Thatcher 's legitimate fears about the loss of British sovereignty . |
| 13 | The computerised exchange — known as Direct Dialling In ( DDI ) — has already gone a long way to reducing delays for the thousands of callers daily using the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust switchboards . |
| 14 | In all , 255 young trees were planted , a huge task which was completed by the garden team at Nymans in ten days and which has already gone a good way towards restoring the diversity of colours , shapes and textures of conifers in their prime . |
| 15 | Metaphor has already announced a Unix-based gateway enabling access to Sybase SQL Server and the Red Brick Warehouse repositories . |
| 16 | The court will decide next Wednesday on the High Court ruling that doctors can stop feeding Tony , 21 , but has already reached a preliminary finding , said Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Bingham . |
| 17 | The President has already visited a similar camp run by Paul Newman in Connecticut . |
| 18 | The Educational Publishers Council has already formed a productive relationship with these councils , and hopes to continue this with their successor body . |
| 19 | The growing menace of solvent abuse has already provoked a stark government campaign to stop it . |
| 20 | ( b ) if a competitor has already posted a higher offer ; |
| 21 | At the present time the PSD team has already built a new mess room for ELR volunteer workers , erected carriage maintenance platforms within Buckley Wells shed and laid concrete paths all round the outside of the shed , together with concrete bases for its new workshop annexe . |
| 22 | His colleague who started the fire , at a parachute store at RAF Hullavington , has already begun a five year jail sentence . |
| 23 | Cardiff has already begun a brighter future . |
| 24 | One of the region 's batch of new MPs has already landed a top job in his party . |
| 25 | West Germany , for example , is to introduce a digital cellular radio service in competition with that offered by the Deutsche Bundespost , and France has already licensed a private operator . |
| 26 | Still at school but has already played a few times in midfield for youth team . |
| 27 | He has already become a familiar figure at St Wilfrid 's Primary School and he is also chaplain for St John 's Comprehensive . |
| 28 | He has already become a familiar figure at St Wilfrid 's Primary School , which he regularly visits both for pastoral duties and to enjoy the company of the pupils . |
| 29 | The desperate need for more golf courses in the UK has already become a hot potato within the sport , but Keith Wright , Secretary of the English Golf Union , added fuel to the fire recently by claiming the way to satisfy the golf boom was to build courses for the average 18 handicap golfer . |
| 30 | Despite the February agreement with Russia on troop withdrawal [ see p. 38771 ] , Landsbergis said that the troop concentration in Kaliningrad " has already become a historical anachronism , a threat to all its Baltic neighbours , and this threat will always be the greatest to us " . |