Example sentences of "[adj] be already [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the people of one region might still be using stone tools , those in another were already using bronze for all their tools and weapons and sometimes iron as well . |
| 2 | National librarian , Brynley Roberts , says in his annual report this is already causing storage problems . |
| 3 | RICHARD ROGERS Ca n't Stop Loving You ( BCM ) ‘ Written and produced by Marshall Jefferson ’ says the sticker on the US version , explaining why this is already doing business on import . |
| 4 | Our assailants were now shooting fire arrows and these were already causing havoc amongst the defenders . |
| 5 | By the end of the fifteenth century Louis XII was already using French in his letters to other monarchs ( the only significant exception was Poland , whose ruler he wrote to in Latin ) , while at the same time it was the language of the imperial court under Maximilian I. The century or more which followed saw a tendency for it to be used increasingly as the language of diplomacy . |