Example sentences of "already [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 2 | As already noted the British service chiefs were emphatic that American aid was imperative in the event of war with the USSR . |
| 3 | The monumental curves and square buttresses of the United Kingdom Government Pavilion and the sweep of the pillared Concert Hall already dominated the far spread of the exhibition site . |
| 4 | If by 1945 Merleau-ponty had here already indicated the historical basis for what was to become Sartre 's project in the Critique , the theoretical problem that followed was how to unite orthodox Marxist concepts of economic determinism and historical necessity with the individualism of Sartre 's earlier work , that is the existentialist notion of the authentic self and the possibility of choosing one 's own freedom : how to relocate human practice within historical determinism , to reconcile the individual with the social , the idea of agency with that of necessity , or freedom with history ? |
| 5 | His voice was low and deep , vibrant with a hard-held patience , as if he already sensed the latent protest in the way she 'd breathed his name . |
| 6 | A thin layer already covered the frost-hardened ground , and clung delicately to tree-branches , clothes-lines and back-garden bric-à-brac . |
| 7 | Shoemakers already formed the largest group and various types of woodworkers were also prominent . |
| 8 | Only in Britain had the new agriculture already conquered the whole country . |
| 9 | I already knew the right word for it when I was 11 . |
| 10 | But because it already occupied the existing space for electoral politics , the layer of educated and professional younger community leaders who might have become involved in politics was atomised . |
| 11 | The primacy of the bureaucracy has historical roots ( like France ) : ‘ In Germany and Prussia the bureaucracy already performed the political policy of function of policy development more than 200 years ago , from the latter part of the eighteenth century onwards , high civil servants were virtually the ruling state . ’ |
| 12 | First , the Macintosh was designed as a graphical computer and so already possessed the necessary hardware to provide a typographically ‘ accurate ’ WYSIWYG display and then print it out onto the new LaserWriter printer . |
| 13 | The award came as a big surprise for Sam but an even bigger surprise for the Joe Borrows Agency who already had the Bradford-based singer booked at the Great Ayton Social Club on the night of the awards show . |
| 14 | She said Northallerton already had the lowest level of accommodation in Hambleton . |
| 15 | McNamara already had the first spot in the bag and Moniz was out , so the battle was on for second place . |
| 16 | Flynn 's great progress with the GS&W ; line astonished even John , who already had the highest opinion of the man . |
| 17 | Apart from the movement over the Downs , the Germanic settlers moved inland along the rivers ; the attack on the Weald already had the Romano-British experience to build on and , given the distribution of the rivers , can be seen as a pincer movement rather than a direct push northwards . |
| 18 | Mr Gummer had — or at least appeared to have — already published the very list Dr Clark had come to demand . |