Example sentences of "[was/were] already [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the Arthur died in 1803 and his three younger sons took over the prosperous business , there were already records of Guinness sales to the West Indies . |
| 2 | At the same time as this threat Henry found himself faced with a revolt of a section of the Breton nobility , alarmed by his high-handed treatment of their duchy , and there were already hints of trouble elsewhere in his dominions . |
| 3 | There were already colonies of maggots at work on the body , particularly , the Doctor noticed , on the stump of the right wrist , and on the hand which was severed and lay a couple of feet away . |
| 4 | Altho' we started at 7.30 , as we passed through the streets there were already hordes of people on their way to work , and armies of volunteers ( yes , at 7.30 on Sunday ! ) making the streets nice and clean . |
| 5 | The first missionaries to preach in the Muslim north of Nigeria were greeted by a handful of people who were already believers in Jesus and claimed to follow him . |
| 6 | Journalists and producers who fell out of favour were ‘ put on the shelf ’ ( ‘ mis au placard ’ ) — thereby accentuating what was already part of broadcasting mythology : in the 1980S as in the 1940S , key managerial , editorial and programming appointments and dismissals — who 's ‘ in ’ and who 's ‘ out ’ — were attributed as much ( or more ) to political as to professional factors . |
| 7 | The title of King of the English was carried by no less than ten male successors before King Canute — who was already King of Denmark and Norway — succeeded at the end of 1016 , to be succeeded by his son in 1035 , and another son in 1040 , but that son died two years later , aged only twenty-four . |
| 8 | He was already King of Scotland , and he had a young wife , Queen Anne of Denmark , and three young children . |
| 9 | Even when Archbishop Thomas died , he was succeeded by a new archbishop , Gerard , who was already bishop of Hereford , and as such had taken an oath of obedience to Anselm . |
| 10 | Hayling had realized that although women 's interests were being looked after on the paper , there was already suspicion of NoS in the black community . |
| 11 | The artist Benjamin Haydon was already £600 in debt when he heard that the Royal Academy would not after all be buying his painting Macbeth for 500 guineas . |
| 12 | As well as warden , Gloucester was already sheriff of Cumberland for life and had possession of Carlisle and its fee farm . |
| 13 | As well as warden , Gloucester was already sheriff of Cumberland for life and had possession of Carlisle and its fee farm . |