Example sentences of "was already [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money . |
| 2 | Leavis 's tirade against such students was an insensitive treatment of what was already a sensitive topic , and is now far more so . |
| 3 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 4 | But I start that by saying there was already a considerable amount of Cabinet discussion . ’ |
| 5 | He was already a member of ecumenical committees . |
| 6 | Ramsey was already a leader , not just in the diocese of Durham , but in the Church . |
| 7 | At this time of year , mid-Autumn , the snow has usually not arrived in Tromsø and it is possible for you to have the hills to yourself in Tromsdalen or , better , in Lyngen , but this year there was already a metre of the stuff down at sea level . |
| 8 | There was already a rather perfunctory air to the Queen 's visit three years ago , as if it were just a required coda to her tour of China . |
| 9 | He was already a very unpleasant person when he was entertained in Buckingham Palace by the Queen in 1978 . |
| 10 | It has bought a dud Utah thrift , MountainWest , which was already a Visa card-issuer . |
| 11 | That left Mr Ishihara with just half of what was already a short book . |
| 12 | He had a head start , in that he was already a self-made eccentric . |
| 13 | When Faith Lavender was born , Eleanor thought , I was already a married woman , far from Uncle Arthur and Aunt Harriet Craven , both dead , and from the Surrey house , sold , with its lake and cherry trees . |
| 14 | I said to the manager , Ghiringhelli , who was already a great personal friend , that it was important for me to go , but if it was not possible then I would forget it . |
| 15 | Religious problems came back to haunt Wenceslas for , at the time of his death in 1419 , the Hussite movement which prefigured the Reformation was already a cause of conflict throughout his kingdom . |
| 16 | By turns spiralling slowly upwards and sighing in resignation , it was already a much-loved concert piece before its use in the films The Elephant Man and Platoon gave it even greater popularity . |
| 17 | In fact Meadowell is an Elastoplast name like Sizewell , invented in the 1970s to disguise what was already a running sore . |
| 18 | Mr Maxwell backed the 1987 flotation of Eurotunnel , where Mr Lion was already a director , by sub-underwriting about a tenth of the £350m British tranche . |
| 19 | Telemachus was already a thoroughly achieved work . |
| 20 | Behind them the shore was already a dimly glimpsed grey line , the individual details of buildings , or a car driving along the shore road , lost under the hazy shadow of hillside and moor beyond . |
| 21 | The dock was already a foot under water . |
| 22 | In Blake 's case there was a further complication in that Blake was already a Russian agent . |
| 23 | He was already a walking compendium on nuclear public inquiries before the hearings started , amassing a library of material on Sizewell in his living room . |
| 24 | In 1902 , Joiner sold the mill to the Somerset-based Dulcote Leatherboard Co , of which he was already a partner , and the mill became home to a number of special processes , mainly for the manufacture of shoe stiffeners . |
| 25 | Franca decided that Alison had probably been drinking on the plane and was already a bit tipsy . |
| 26 | Richard was already a good shot , a patient fisherman and a brave , if occasionally reckless , rider , but competence in all these sports had come to him so easily that he had no interest in practising them . |
| 27 | One dog who was already a UK champion was exported to Ireland : Ch. and Irish Ch. |
| 28 | By the Middle Ages , Otmoor was already a restricted common , jealously guarded by the inhabitants of its ‘ seven towns ’ . |
| 29 | Although the ballet flopped , simply to have been invited to work with a major American company was already a valuable recognition of John 's gifts . |
| 30 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |