Example sentences of "be already [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some JAA countries are already considering a ticket tax . |
| 2 | The unions are already holding a strike ballot because they fear compulsory redundancies . |
| 3 | Taxi drivers on the resort island of Jerba , close to the Libyan border , are already expecting a windfall from the transit of foreigners working in Libya . |
| 4 | Infant teachers who go to the play corner and take part in domestic or shopping activities are already using a form of teacher-in-role |
| 5 | The number of people identified who have made the move to the community was 768 at the last count , up to about September 1988. 526 are included in the evaluation , so we are already getting a lot of information about the potential of community care . |
| 6 | And talking of white collars … all accountants in Hong Kong are already taking a position on 1997 . |
| 7 | They need to keep their bankers happy by reducing a £3 million-plus debt in the next few months — and Robson , in who Leeds are already showing an interest , will become their most disposable asset . |
| 8 | The profit-sharing scheme is coming on line in June and we are already planning a follow-up to our successful Islamic Quiz Evening on March 12th . |
| 9 | Most charities with over £100,000 income are already having an audit . |
| 10 | We 're already seeing a trend towards pay-for-use , rather than subscription . |
| 11 | The Czechs are SO popular , that they 're already planning a return visit . |
| 12 | An emergency appeal for blankets has been issued , but with winter just around the corner , they 're already predicting a crisis this Christmas . |
| 13 | ‘ Many of the artists in the 1993 Biennial exhibition work consciously to deconstruct and de-center the politically constructed site of whiteness and its relation to the ever-changing direction of Americanness ’ , writes one newly appointed curator , who is said to be already organising an exhibition scheduled for 1995 on the deconstruction of the African-American male , ‘ the body provides an immediate site for discussions of culture , gender , class , and sexual specificity . |
| 14 | But if rising construction and running costs were already casting a shadow over the economics of the British PWR programme , then a parallel process had significantly benefited the comparative advantage of coal-fired generation . |
| 15 | The younger Herschel had travelled to the Cape with his telescope to undertake the first survey of the southern skies with a first-class instrument , and his discoveries of nebulae were already causing a stir in the astronomical community . |
| 16 | Even allowing for the fact that Orphism , as the most recent artistic novelty , was attracting the attention of a press and public made restless and sensation-hungry by the numerous artistic upheavals which the twentieth century had already witnessed , the fact is that by 1914 the abstract tendencies in European painting were already assuming an importance second only to that of Cubism from which they had largely sprung . |
| 17 | The assumptions of total British dependence on the USA with which the Clark memoirs show successive British Governments operating in the aftermath of World War II and which were pleaded as necessitating the climb-down in November 1956 were already undergoing an examination which 1956 only accelerated . |
| 18 | The rumours about Swift were already reaching a crescendo on every stockmarket in the world . |
| 19 | She pushed her way through the crowds to the back of the cab , where another group of nomes were already nomehandling a plank into position , and scrambled up to where Dorcas was trying to make himself heard in the middle of an excited crowd . |
| 20 | It says it 's already built a prototype . |
| 21 | The car 's already causing a stir among the manufacturers , eager to seek new markets in energy-conscious Japan and California . |
| 22 | David 's already made a will , has n't he ? |
| 23 | But he 's no stranger to dare devil stunts , he 's already made a bungee jump from more than ten thousand feet . |
| 24 | She 's already undergone an operation to have shrapnel removed from her back . |
| 25 | It 's already getting a bit stiff . |
| 26 | She 's already taped a bit in the common room . |
| 27 | She 's already missed a couple of days . ’ |
| 28 | The new book is by a man who 's already written a handful of best-sellers , most of them about moles . |
| 29 | Well she 's already put a hole in the exhaust and a dent in the front |
| 30 | We had he 's already started an assignment . |