They've certainly already overstayed their welcome.
The woman, perhaps fifty, in a lumpy cloth coat, her frizzy hair bunched under a woollen cap, now fishing in a Ziploc of dog treats for one to offer to Ava, having certainly already discerned his presence from any number of clues, showed less surprise than fascination that he'd spoken to her directly.
In this sense, Allegiance is not a call to boldly go where no one has gone before, but a call not to go back to a place -- a dark place -- we have certainly already been.
"By then, however, Mubenga had almost certainly already suffered a cardiac arrest and was, in all likelihood, beyond recovery as sadly proved to be the case". The whole incident lasted 35 minutes, the court heard.
John Wesley Harding has certainly been recorded already, and we are witnessing how the Hawks plan to reintegrate Levon Helm – who had missed the Basement sessions – into their new sound while continuing to experiment with an inspired Dylan, even after he returned from three trips to Nashville with his new album and, seemingly, a new direction home.
Research along these lines has certainly been done already, but Amazon seems to have the jump on others on the creation of a specific system for using that knowledge in product form.
The seeds of our nigh-universal destruction have almost certainly already been sewn in some unscrupulous South American science lab and the only warning we'll have is a series of strange and disturbing news reports before all hell breaks loose.
But at a time when so many questions are being asked Afghanistan's future, the debate about has certainly added to an already charged situation.
If it covers the public sector as a whole, the target has almost certainly already been achieved.
