Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [adj] [noun] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm yeah , it 's , it 's er good for what it is , but I think this has been done many times before and er I sh would think that everybody 's seen some just slightly better than this , but it 's quite a nice er sunset . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
| 3 | The House will find it difficult to understand why the country needs another nuclear test , especially when the basic technology has been tested countless times before . |
| 4 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 5 | A British team managed to reach one that , although it had been hooked several hours before , was still just living when its captor got it ashore . |
| 6 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 7 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 8 | There was a lot of stuff in there I did n't understand , such as ‘ MM ’ and ‘ TT ’ and ‘ JS ’ , mostly in the form of cryptic notes after a company name , though even I worked out that ‘ BB ’ meant Big Bang , when the City had been deregulated two years before . |
| 9 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 10 | The hypothesis of the asylum founders , that cure could be achieved through placement in a segregated and controlled environment , had been nullified many years before . |
| 11 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 12 | It was exactly the same act under which he had been prosecuted seven years before , with the Student Advisory Centre . |
| 13 | His father had been killed two years before , and Mallachy had been known to refer to him , with his grim-eyed smile , as some sort of hero , a victim of the UFF or someone like them . |
| 14 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 15 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 16 | It was also through Bede that the AD system of reckoning the years from the Incarnation of Christ , that had been devised two centuries before by Dionysius Exiguus , was introduced into England . |
| 17 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
| 18 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 19 | Within was a colour photograph of Nicola that had been taken several years before : her face was chubbier and her hair , although still a remarkable blonde , was straight and parted down the middle . |
| 20 | He favoured less one that had been taken ten years before in which his bowler hat and suit are typical of a provincial businessman . |
| 21 | But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before . |
| 22 | Although the word ‘ reckless ’ had been used many times before in the context of manslaughter , a distinctive doctrine was established in Seymour ( 1983 ) . |
| 23 | The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before . |
| 24 | Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before . |
| 25 | The Methodist Sabbath School had been founded ten years before , and just one year after that date the ‘ collections were liberal ’ . |
| 26 | Although this had been suggested many times before , Stuart was the first to succeed , and his work shaped the future of the extension system . |
| 27 | The first had arrived ten days before , and the second had been delivered four days before . |
| 28 | The new ministers soon find that there is remarkably little room for manoeuvre , and that most of the quick and easy panaceas to the intractable problems of Defence have been tried many times before . |