Example sentences of "[be] already [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the plug is pulled on the tour , there 'll be a scramble to replace the Boks … but I believe the RFU are already looking to France to step into the breach .
2 Finally , if you are already subscribing to company AVCs , before investing in a new plan check on your present level of contributions and the benefits that these are expected to yield .
3 The larger companies are already coming to terms with the new regulations .
4 ‘ We 're already talking to customers .
5 Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes .
6 Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June :
7 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 .
8 Pushers were already selling to children and crime would soar as addicts sought money for drugs .
9 Left with no choice but to accept the responsibility or to pursue its own independent inquiries , the airline instructed Windels , Marx , Davies & Ives to prepare its defence and to investigate the suggestions of government complicity that were already coming to light .
10 Air quality manager Peter Shawcross said the results were currently being examined and evaluated and that interesting facts were already coming to light .
11 The remainder of these unfortunates were already contributing to family incomes as labourers , shop boys , glovers , house-servants , rag collectors and so on .
12 De Klerk gives Mandela and ANC a growing role : South Africa 's white leader , who yesterday met black churchmen , is already deferring to Nelson Mandela , John Carlin writes
13 They warned that the " ill example " was already spreading to journeymen curriers , smiths , farriers , sail makers , coach makers , carpenters , bricklayers , joiners and " artificers of divers other arts and misteries " .
14 His colleague was already talking to Nigel Cramer , who had spent the night at Scotland Yard .
15 Nothing more exciting than that appeared on the horizon in his first six months in California , and he was already talking to June about going back to Mud and Neptune .
16 Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand .
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