Example sentences of "[noun] already [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this is consistent with the absence of any effect of oil work in urban areas ( table II ) : rural post code sectors already supporting many construction workers ( and Highlands Region has one of the highest levels of such workers in Britain ) would be expected to be less affected by oil work than similar areas without such earlier ‘ exposure ’ ( that is , those in which the recent impact score was high ) . |
| 2 | Tomorrow , on a Buckinghamshire industrial estate , the pair renew hostilities with Ardiles fighting to protect his credibility and O'Neill 's managerial aptitude already drawing comparisons with his mentor , Brian Clough . |
| 3 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 4 | She spun round to face him , her mouth already setting into an angry line . |
| 5 | Shelley paused , her mouth already opening to refuse . |
| 6 | Equally ghostly , beyond the hedge , was a grey horse already cropping the damp grass . |
| 7 | But an avalanche of complaints has almost overwhelmed the C S A and it comes from dads already paying out agreed sums for their kids . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're departing from the idea that microcomputers will be a fantastic source of telecommunications traffic in the future , ’ said Jean-Jacques Damlamian , France Telecom 's sales director , citing a study by DG Conseil that shows France 's 420,000 networked personal computers already generating $160m per year in revenues for all types of telecommunications traffic . |
| 9 | The walk was scheduled to depart from Green Park Tube , and when I arrived I found a group of thirty or so walkers already tapping their feet . |
| 10 | What frightened him most was the still figure of William Tanner lying prone beside the office wall , blood already beginning to turn dark on his battered face . |
| 11 | Maura closed her eyes , a knot of fear already forming in her stomach . |
| 12 | So landowners , from the king down to relatively small provincial lords , founded boroughs right and left , especially where they saw merchants and traders already congregating at some convenient spot — near the protection of a castle or an abbey , which were considerable markets also , at some important river-crossing , and so on . |
| 13 | There were reports of some units already having transferred allegiance to Ukraine , including the 48th division , withdrawn from Czechoslovakia in 1990 , which had disobeyed orders of Sept. 10 to move to the Caucasus . |
| 14 | The news has shocked a fashion industry already reeling from the recession . |
| 15 | Dugal Nisbet-Smith , director of the Newspaper Society , an organisation representing mainly English and Welsh provincial titles , has said 17.5 per cent VAT would be a catastrophe for an industry already reeling from the recession . |
| 16 | This was attributed to four main factors : the chairperson had been promoted to another school ; the librarian/coordinator had been promoted to a complex and demanding pastoral role ; the reorganisation of secondary schools had imposed strains to which the activities of a library committee were an unwelcome addition ; and finally , the fact that the project purchases were now completed , with the books already finding their way on to the library shelves , appeared to be seen as an indication that the committee 's work had been completed . |
| 17 | It also proposed granting $200 million to school districts already operating a voucher system allowing parents to choose between schools , and $30 million to those districts intending to establish such a system . |
| 18 | ULSTER drivers already reeling from the jump in the cost of motoring imposed by the Budget are facing another rise in car park charges . |
| 19 | The hurricane would never blow itself out ; and at its eye was a figure already taking on the lineaments of a familiar enough twentieth-century ‘ type ’ , the male-dominated , passion-ridden female so well-known to the readers of the novels of Barbara Cartland . |
| 20 | Paul Moriarty already missing the start of the season , our pack would be decimated if Howard was injured playing in Australia . |
| 21 | It follows that , in the majority of trees , the new cellulose is laid down in the cell already containing the stresses and strains which it has to bear . |
| 22 | Candy nodded slowly , her active mind already racing ahead . |
| 23 | The politicians ' disapproval would have been sharper still had they been aware of plans already taking shape in the army to launch an actual invasion of mainland France if the regime refused to recall de Gaulle to power . |
| 24 | The driver swears but brakes as yet another tin mining family climb aboard the truck already bulging with people and their belongings . |
| 25 | More than 70 per cent of the females at the lake reach the water with a male already riding piggyback . |
| 26 | And many anglers are also switching to barbless hooks with some angling clubs already requiring them . |
| 27 | Mathcad is described as an easy-to-use ‘ handy scratch pad for quick number crunching ’ , which is positioned as an alternative to popular spreadsheets and which boasts a user base already nearing that of Borland 's Quattro Pro and Excel in the US . |
| 28 | Some customers — including small businesses and homeowners already struggling to survive throughout the recession — are paying 10 per cent or more , even though bank rates have hit seven per cent . |
| 29 | Outside , the day was already well advanced and sunlight glimmered on the waters of the canal below , the towpath already thronging with people . |
| 30 | With a bloody chin and an empty stomach , Manville had left his apartment already fuming , only to discover that vandals had been at work on his car during the night . |