adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
already exist
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Legislation to protect us from terrorists already exists.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
begin
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However, I had already begun the process, long before coming over, of minimizing and dismissing my cultural identity.
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Similar changes have already begun in the admissions process for undergraduate students entering in 1998.
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Perhaps the picture had already begun to look better.
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Californians have already begun seeing overtures from retailers as the competition stirs.
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The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons.
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The 46-year-old has already begun his job.
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The work had already begun when, late in the year, Pons first learned about Jones.
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Workers were scared and had already begun fighting.
exist
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The Product must already exist and must have been registered.
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This book is in-tended largely to call attention to this opportunity and to point to the consensus for action that already exists .
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Substantial reductions are possible, as the technology already exists .
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Some will go to programs that exist already .
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Rather let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the forms already existing .
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Instead, he would pretend the books already existed , and write fictions around them.
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One is that a land resettlement programme already exists and that it is has been successful and well-administered in many respects.
know
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Alice thought perhaps she'd known already she was ill.
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It is not likely to require behavior change because most existing employees already know it well.
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Go over the topic in your mind, identifying what you already know and don't know about the topic. 3.
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Once they get there they need facilities, all the kinds of things the travel industry already knows how to provide.
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The character's width, its height is already known by the point size, is stored in a width table.
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Much of this seems to be at least a preliminary documentation of what has happened that is already known .
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Dreaming is about using the information that you already know .
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That was it: He already knew .
make
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We have already made clear that we are determined to encourage management-employee buy-outs.
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The pollution is already making a strong economic impact, both in the ponds and on the open water.
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It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces.
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Appearing to move especially swiftly because of that media focus, moreover, police have already made arrests in her case.
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Our discussion has already made apparent a great paucity of large-scale bronzes compared to what survives in marble.
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Price Waterhouse has already made about 320 redundant since the start of the recession.
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Whatever happens, any tax relief obtained on donations you have already made will not be lost.
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Imro is already making organisational changes and is to strengthen its monitoring resources.
mention
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My mother would not take it well, I knew this as surely as if I'd already mentioned it.
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I have already mentioned the stipulation that before l could qualify for married status I should have passed two language exams.
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I have already mentioned that right-handed pilots seem to have a natural tendency to turn left.
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The numbers of the bilingual service providers which are already mentioned are growing slowly.
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I have already mentioned the failure of the paramilitaries to create and sustain a political initiative.
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We have already mentioned the marshes of Sussex and Kent as examples of areas drying out.
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I have already mentioned the debate in Presbytery in 1974 about ministers going forward in elections.
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Here is another difficult area which has been mentioned already: housing farm animals.
see
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That the court is entitled to establish its own classification system has been seen already .
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They already seen U-boats off Nova Scotia.
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We have already seen that amorphous materials such as polymers have chain structures.
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I could already see that look in his eyes, something slithery and pink that hints of alcoholic tendencies.
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As we've already seen , the very high tax rates under the Labour Government helped to kill enterprise.
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I can already see how my daughters, Katie, 9, and Perrie, 6, model my behavior.
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We have already seen that there are cells in the visual cortex that recognize edges.
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At Guinness, these principles constitute our Strategic Intent. you have already seen the first part of that intent.
start
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Mr Wilson said Nerco had already started disposing of the gold and silver operations.
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The electronic republic, therefore, has already started to redefine the traditional roles of citizenship and political leadership.
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From here you can already start to see the rim of the mountains that enclose the cirque.
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If you already started the document and saved it on the disk, recall it for editing or addition.
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Two people living near the pit had written to the council expressing concern the changes had already started .
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But the trend that I see for the next decade has already started .
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In December 1922 he resigned graciously to return to his large goods store which had already started up in June.
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He has already started looking for workers and jobs in and around south Lake County.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Do you want a cup of coffee?" "No thanks, I already have some."
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"Should I tell Kay?" "She already knows."
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"When are you going to do your homework?" "I already did it before dinner!"
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Are you leaving already ?
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As I have already mentioned, we need to raise more political support.
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Don't buy any more toys for the kids -- they've got plenty already .
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He's only three and he's already reading.
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I can't believe I already forgot his phone number!
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Is it already 5 o'clock?
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The building's already costing us way too much money as it is.
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The show has already started.
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Was the apartment empty when you moved in or was it already furnished?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As many teams already know, it is one of the kinder road stops in the league.
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By the early 1950s the claim that agriculture saved valuable foreign exchange was already paper-thin.
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I knew already how everything would end up.
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She wondered if during that last frenetic occasion when she had seen Sylvie there had already been a premonition of the end.
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This is a challenge which I and my colleague John Davis have already taken up.
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This is a crucial proposition which we have already noted and which will be discussed again later in this book.
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This is especially true if you introduce your spouse into an already established business partnership.