Example sentences of "already [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The humanist Renaissance of the late Middle Ages had already witnessed the gradual emergence of reasoning independent of the church . |
| 2 | He had already witnessed the incredible speed of his lethal opponent , and also of his fellow oriental whom he had shot and killed in the Control Room . |
| 3 | It was already broken the second day of . |
| 4 | Advance ticket sales for the final have already broken the 50,000 barrier and are approaching a British Test record of 54,000 , also set at Wembley in 1990 . |
| 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 | She had already explained the full landing procedures , the control of the plane by power and rudder , the way the ailerons were only used to hold the plane level . |
| 8 | We have already heard the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) suggest that there should be a further element which would take into account the length of time that someone has lived in a house . |
| 9 | Following Howe 's personal statement on Nov. 13 , Heseltine on the following day abandoned his earlier position that he would not stand against Thatcher , claiming that he was best placed to win back former Conservative voters , that he had the better prospect of leading the Conservative Party to a fourth successive general election victory and so of preventing " the ultimate catastrophe of a Labour victory in a general election " , and that he had already received the committed support of 100 MPs . |
| 10 | For South Wales , Llantrisant had already received the Royal Mint , but its New Town designation was withdrawn . |
| 11 | Somehow she 'd already guessed the other woman 's identity . |
| 12 | Three years earlier , on the conclusion of an Anglo-Dutch peace treaty , it had already voted the same man a gold chain and a medal worth another 6,000 . |
| 13 | ‘ You have already forgotten the first rule . |
| 14 | I 'll back chasing young cattle against anything else for working up a sweat , and I had already forgotten the uncharitable world outside . |
| 15 | When the result was officially declared at a general committee meeting of the Birkenhead party last night , Mr Field had already won the first round of the ballot in the individual members section with 159 votes against his two challengers , Mr Paul Davies , a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , who secured 75 votes and Militant supporter , Ms Kathy Wilson , with 48 votes . |
| 16 | By the time Henley was opened Braid had already won the Open Championship four times and went on to win again in 1910 so becoming the first golfer to win five times . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | St Edwards have already won the this year 's national schools championships in Nottingham , but one of that crew has had to drop out . |
| 19 | Little Polveir is going for the National treble , having already won the Scottish version in 1987 and the Seagram Grand National last season . |
| 20 | She did not reply at once , taking her time to empty the water from the snowdrop jar , then she glanced to where Doreen already occupied the front seat of the minibus . |
| 21 | Apart from the HMV shop in Oxford Street , London ( 1939 ) , and the temporary Soleil pavilion at the Paris 1937 exhibition , Emberton 's other main work is the circular casino at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach , Lancashire ( 1939 ) , where he had already designed the fun house and grand national ( 1935 ) , showing the adaptability of modernism to popular entertainment . |
| 22 | At Sotheby 's New York on 21 October last , five clocks of second-rate quality ( the property of a collector who had already dispersed the best part of his collection ) sent auction prices rocketing . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | In fact some evidence of commitment already existed , since the head , who claims to have wanted to improve the library and to link this to the introduction of study skills , had already approached the governing body to seek county support for redecoration . |
| 25 | The unions had already endured the Conservative Government 's policy of granting individual rights , thus increasingly undermining collective power ; the range of actions that trade union members can take has been increased , and the procedures for doing so have been simplified , for example , by some new actions being justiciable in Industrial Tribunals , or by referring the matter to the Certification Officer . |
| 26 | I 've already answered the underlying question , I do believe that they should have the maximum discretion and then they should be answerable for their decisions to their local electors who want a good police service and want a good education service and there is money there for them to do it if that is their wish . |
| 27 | This was despite the fact that I had already visited the Algerian Embassy to no effect after writing thirteen times . |
| 28 | We have already noticed the new weight that the Reformation came to place upon the Bible . |
| 29 | you have already seen the first part of that intent . |
| 30 | We have already seen the phallic symbolism of the plough in Dame Sirith and the Shipman 's Tale ; it is thematically appropriate that the Miller should swear by " " the oxen in my plogh " " when considering in his prologue whether he may be a cuckold or not ( 3151 – 62 ) . |