Example sentences of "[noun sg] already [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She spun round to face him , her mouth already setting into an angry line . |
| 4 | Shelley paused , her mouth already opening to refuse . |
| 5 | Equally ghostly , beyond the hedge , was a grey horse already cropping the damp grass . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Maura closed her eyes , a knot of fear already forming in her stomach . |
| 8 | The news has shocked a fashion industry already reeling from the recession . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Candy nodded slowly , her active mind already racing ahead . |
| 13 | The driver swears but brakes as yet another tin mining family climb aboard the truck already bulging with people and their belongings . |
| 14 | More than 70 per cent of the females at the lake reach the water with a male already riding piggyback . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Outside , the day was already well advanced and sunlight glimmered on the waters of the canal below , the towpath already thronging with people . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ’ Rainforest ’ turns out to be the squawking tropical bird noise already playing in the Centre , so I settle for the crashing waves and seagull cries of ’ Ocean ’ . |
| 19 | He was wearing a clean white T-shirt , frayed denim shorts , and navy canvas deck shoes , his dark hair already drying in unruly waves . |
| 20 | Pale grey summer suit , ready-made but a perfect fit ; neat hair already beginning to match the suit ; and , what pleases me most , this trim matching beard to bridge most of the gap between suit and hair . |
| 21 | Detective Sergeant Burgess was a pleasant faced young man , but with hair already greying around his temples , for all that he was ; till in his twenties . |
| 22 | An excellent day was enjoyed by all , with those taking part already looking forward to future outings . |
| 23 | ‘ Industrial democracy ’ on the other hand is a term which is generally taken to refer to particular practices of management already operating in certain capitalist economies ( e.g. West Germany ) or specific proposals such as those of the Bullock Committee ( Bullock , 1977 ) , practices and proposals which give some role to workers or their representatives in enterprise decision-making , but which are not necessarily linked to the overall social planning of the economy in the interests of working people . |
| 24 | Though — at the earliest — the registers will not be available before 1994 , the property industry sees them as a further blow to a sector already reeling from recession . |
| 25 | The child , a girl of about five , was whimpering softly , the skin of her legs and bottom already peeling . |
| 26 | As a result of these meeting it is hoped that Catholics around the regions can link with each other , and with other Christians , to support the enormous amount of work already taking place . |
| 27 | Climbing the stair behind her , looking up at her clacking legs , his body already responding , he had turned a pillar of pearl into a hard shaft of flesh . |
| 28 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 29 | He half expected ocean , the white towers of Moon Beach , but there was only land , land that looked infinite , land without end , and he stood still and stared , as if by staring he could make something happen , the first drop of rain already drying on his shoulder . |
| 30 | Suppose we start with a population already sitting on the Always Defect side . |