Example sentences of "already been [verb] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One important signal had already been given with the reversal of the ‘ Tiananmen Incident ’ verdict .
2 Mr Saunders has already been charged with the theft of the £5.2m , raising the possibility that this part of his trial may have to be delayed until Mr Ward is extradited .
3 A major start has already been made with the agreement that Scottish Nuclear can store its spent fuel on site rather than send it to BNF 's reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria , which will save £45 million a year .
4 Several colonies of British orchids , including the lesser butterfly from Northamptonshire and the summer lady 's tresses from Hampshire , have already been exterminated with the help of enthusiasts .
5 A meeting has already been held with the Government 's new Environment Minister , David Maclean .
6 Excavations at Tepe Gawra much nearer the highland sources of metals show that close contacts had already been established with the city states of Sumer as far back as the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. By the time of the Royal Cemetery of Ur ( c.2600–2500 B.C. ) metallurgy and not least gold- and silversmithing had already reached a stage at which many of the fundamental processes had been mastered .
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