Example sentences of "[verb] already [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He has already complained to the local government ombudsman and is hoping for an investigation into alleged maladministration over the closure of Hustledown .
2 He has already complained to the local government ombudsman and is hoping for an investigation into alleged maladministration over the closure of Hustledown .
3 She has already written to the Superior General of the Dublin-based order , and to Cardinal Cathal Daly , the Primate of Ireland .
4 This idea that the essentials for salvation are never ‘ above reason ’ sits uneasily with what Locke has already said about the practical difficulty of working them out for oneself .
5 WHEN citizens of the Irish Republic bestow sainthood on Jack Charlton , thinking him to be perhaps the most significant figure in their sporting history , they are not merely responding to what he has already achieved with the national football team .
6 Fred Jarvis of the National Union of Teachers has already hinted at the fundamental difficulty which arises when the professional is set within tightly prescribed guidelines .
7 ‘ Accordingly , the effect of the report is to confirm the conclusions the board has already reached on the financial effects of the fraud on Ferranti International . ’
8 MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load !
9 Insurance cover , rates and utility charges on property not yet sold ( if the employee has already moved to the new location ) .
10 Fortunately , considerable high-quality work has already begun on the legal , political and institutional aspects of global environmental change ( see , for instance , Nitze 1990 ) .
11 It seems very likely , indeed , that an extension of democratic and decentralized planning would lead to an even larger role for the social sciences in the formation of public policies , if one may judge from the expansion and the greater utilization of them which has already occurred in the short period during which the present welfare states have developed .
12 The Black Report into inequalities in health ( Townsend and Davidson 1982 ) has already passed into the main body of research , though it was commissioned and published , albeit unwillingly , by government .
13 The ARPS has already responded to the dramatic increases in the costs of obtaining an order for new works under the new system which were due to come into force from September 1st .
14 However , the £500,000 legal action which has already started against the Imperial Tobacco Company in Mr McTear 's name will continue in spite of his death .
15 As has already happened with the recent Microsoft , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc he believes vendors could well look to develop strategic interfaces and operating systems that conform to the maximum number of standards .
16 Baldwin has already starred in the mega successful Clancy adaptations The Hunt For Red October .
17 Gareth Rees , the gifted Canadian fly-half has already signed for the French club Merignac , a side captained by Philippe Berbizier , the brother of Pierre .
18 But to have to sit here and pretend interest in an endless parade of painted mannequins wearing bored looks and the ridiculous fashions he 'd already glimpsed in the huge sketches plastered on the wall as decorations — Nicolo shifted again .
19 It seems reasonable to infer from the above that numerous corporate executives , having already responded to the situational demands necessary for career mobility within an organization by displaying sufficient degrees of competitive ambition , shrewdness , and moral flexibility will experience a further development of these characteristics when they have to respond to the relatively unaccountable and unconstrained power of being at or near the top of a large national , but especially transnational corporation .
20 Among those who went were John B Dynes and Edward Wright who had already served in the 1914–1918 War .
21 ‘ About two-thirds of them had already broken into the European market , particularly France , but were seeking new outlets : the rest were starting from scratch . ’
22 Even the opening had already appeared in the Italian settings of Genet/Carpentras ( see p. 179 ) , a Frenchman who worked in Italy .
23 But Faye had already turned to the thick , creamy frontispiece to check for herself before leafing through the rest of the volume .
24 Their brittle and unsettling promise had already crept into the dark comers of her house and laid bare its emptiness .
25 He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan .
26 But dawn had already reached inside the grey stone walls , touching them with fingers of amethyst , softening the austerity of Castell Rocamar and rendering the place almsot pretty .
27 There was a prospect ahead of " centuries of barbarism " which , in an interview the year before , he had already related to the coming dominance of technology .
28 By the mid-nineteenth century it had already extended across the whole social spectrum .
29 The conclusion of an alliance with France in 1894 had already contributed to the favourable publicity which Russian securities received in the West .
30 But Defries had already jumped into the shrinking gap .
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