Example sentences of "[verb] already [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year . |
| 2 | By the time the train has reached them , it has already slowed to a crawl allowing a team of five officers to be at the trackside before the offenders know what has happened . |
| 3 | By the time the train has reached them , it has already slowed to a crawl allowing a team of five officers to be at the trackside before the offenders know what has happened . |
| 4 | Whatever side is taken in this ongoing debate , however , it appears that knowledge of the ill effects of tobacco has already led to a modification in smoking behaviour among older men , particularly those in non-manual employment . |
| 5 | Precise details of what has been achieved by the liaison remain a closely guarded secret but it has involved developing new methods of using medicinal drugs in the body and has already led to a contract with a major pharmaceutical company . |
| 6 | Woman to Woman was produced as both an exhibition and a book , it has already toured to a number of venue throughout the UK and is still available for hire through The Royal Photographic Society in Bath . |
| 7 | Concern for the plant 's impact on the environment had already led to a cut in production earlier in the year to the minimum necessary to keep the plant 's systems in operation . |
| 8 | In practice , the professional bodies concerned , e.g. the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists , had already agreed to a limit of 24 weeks and in 1990 a Bill was passed to reduce the legal limit to 24 weeks . |
| 9 | In Stein 's day the jade searchers of Chinese Turkestan had already taken to a kind of superficial mining , even if this amounted to no more than burrowing through overlying deposits to search the cobble bed down to depths of up to some twenty feet . |
| 10 | Glancing over her shoulder , Melissa saw that the entrance had already shrunk to a slit . |
| 11 | The incident occurred on lap 50 , by which time Mansell had already ground to a halt with no gears . |
| 12 | We 've already referred t I 've already referred to a bit of this , in my er discussion with regard to the access to the er nature reserve . |
| 13 | And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else . |
| 14 | The plans have already led to a number of Farnham Lane residents and others interested in protecting the track — which is believed to pre-date Roman times — to object to the reclassification scheme . |