Example sentences of "[verb] already [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's membership of it has already done the untold harm to the British economy that I described in Chapter 5 ; the quicker the Government decides to abandon the objective of re-entering the ERM and to take back permanent control of the economy the better . |
| 2 | Gordon , who has already noted the novel view of Langdale spread beneath us , starts exhuming his camera from his sack . |
| 3 | Graham Taylor 's sidekick said : ‘ He has already achieved the first step by playing in the friendly against Spurs and it will be a very big step to get into a competitive game where there will be no quarter given or asked . |
| 4 | BR has already announced the direct service between the two towns is ending . |
| 5 | Murnin is still on crutches after the much publicised incident involving controversial Crusaders star Kirk Hunter — but he has already forgiven the big man for the tackle which finished his career . |
| 6 | However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant . |
| 7 | This plan has already alarmed the other Airbus partners . |
| 8 | Sentencing the couple to death a year later the judge said , without any visible justification , ‘ I believe your conduct has already caused the Communist aggression in Korea , with resulting casualties exceeding 50,000 Americans . ’ |
| 9 | His action has already caused the premature death of 700,000 birds with miserly compensation to owners . |
| 10 | He has already applied the fractal technique to video data . |
| 11 | ‘ Peter has already beaten the Olympic champion . |
| 12 | Therefore , if the acceptance of the Created God is to be considered , and as the doctrine has already produced the original unit of goodness defined in evolutionary terms , and further , as some form of assessment may ultimately be wanted , there is a case for its acceptance . |
| 13 | At that time , as George Orwell reflected , the campaign appeared to be exerting some impact upon British politics for , ‘ In England the Popular Front is only an idea , but it has already produced the nauseous spectacle of bishops , Communists , cocoa-magnates , publishers , duchesses and Labour MPs marching arm-in-arm to the tune of ‘ Rule Brittania ’ . |
| 14 | The vital principle does not accept such unchanged doses without resistance , that is , without other symptoms of the medicine to manifest themselves then those similar to the disease to be cured , because the former dose has already accomplished the expected change in the vital principle and a second dynamically wholly similar , unchanged dose of the same medicine no longer finds , therefore , the same conditions of the vital force . |
| 15 | ‘ The Midland has already abolished the minimum lending rate and now the others should follow . |
| 16 | Dr Daniel told The Art Newspaper that ‘ someone , either working for the family or an independent speculative dealer , has already approached the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York offering the collection ’ , and that ‘ a private Spanish gallery was offered the Kramar collection from someone in Japan ’ . |
| 17 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |
| 18 | ( Chapter 1 has already mentioned the classic case of California State being held accountable for not ensuring a minimum achievement for an individual student . ) |
| 19 | This is due in part to the fact that President Ibrahim Babangida has already postponed the promised handover to civilian government three times in the past three years . |
| 20 | The proposed expansion of the zoning scheme , which has been on trial in three city-centre wards since 1990 , has already won the clear support of the police , residents ' groups and the hospitals , which have become increasingly concerned about late-night disturbances and violence . |
| 21 | The region 's Women 's Desk has already entered the second year of its life . |
| 22 | Paragraph seven making it clear put that an initial assessment has already established er it has already passed the preliminary assessment stage er and that er the director is undertaking the data collection procedure so that the site can be properly assessed and I do drawn er Mr attention er to that I erm have taken the opportunity during the last adjournment Chairman to speak to Mr about the appropriateness of the wording of his er er amendment and I believe that he he may wish to er move something which is slightly different er which will certainly er we 'll deal with that er if he does move that but er it clearly is the intention of this report and of the committee that when the work has been completed on the assessment of traffic calming measure in Shalford and its priority established , that we would then bring er another report er to the highways and transportation committee in response to this petition er as as indeed is set out in paragraph ten B and if Mr wished that to be brought forward through to council then that will be done but I leave to him if he wish to move an amendment to make it quite clear , since er I must say this motion is rather bland . |
| 23 | The £87m cross-harbour link has already passed the half way stage and is well on schedule for completion in November next year . |
| 24 | The National Labour Office has already awarded the central server portion of what was originally intended to be a three tier contract to Data General 's local partners , Microsystem RT , in a deal estimated to be worth around $1.5m . |
| 25 | - A letter appears in a national newspaper expressing disbelief that the writer has already spotted the first penny-for-the-guy collector/Christmas tree/artificial snow sprayed on shop window/Valentine cards on sale . |
| 26 | Jimmy smashed the previous British melon record by nearly eight pounds , but he wo n't be tucking into his prize exhibit — he has already raffled the mouth-watering treat to raise money for the British Heart Foundation . |
| 27 | Somehow she 'd already guessed the other woman 's identity . |
| 28 | ‘ When you 'd already made the low opinion in which you held both me and my sister crystal-clear ? ’ |
| 29 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 30 | She 'd already bought the bloody card ! |