Example sentences of "it had already [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | China was conspicuously omitted from this scheme since it had already rejected it . |
| 2 | Like the ACAS report , the Scarman report sank without a trace but it had already fulfilled its function that of sapping the strength and momentum of the struggle . |
| 3 | This bird , born around 1762 , lived in such comfortable circumstances that it had already reared eight broods when , to the consternation of its noble owner , it suddenly developed the plumage and spurs of a male and thereafter refused to lay another egg . |
| 4 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 5 | A report by COSLA officials recalled that it had already raised the issue of unfair profit-making from second right-to-buy purchases under housing defects legislation , but ministers had refused to agree to make any changes . |
| 6 | With regard to taxation , jurisdiction , provisions , patronage and vacancies , even where the church suffered no new encroachments , it certainly recovered nothing which it had already lost . |
| 7 | It had already lost half its roof , courtesy of a German or English shell , while the rest of the nave and porch remained intact . |
| 8 | No it was n't quite as bad as that , Ray er what do you call it had already done it . |
| 9 | In 1456 Coventry negotiated freedom from tolls in Southampton , as it had already done with another port which served it , namely Bristol . |
| 10 | Under the December agreement , the French government would repay $1,000 million to Iran , additional to the $630,000,000 it had already repaid . |
| 11 | The arguments centred on scheduling , with Serbia and Montenegro insisting that referendums should take place in each republic at the same time and with the same questions , Croatia announcing that it had already scheduled its referendum for May 19 , Macedonia asking for a postponement of the deadline to mid-June , and Bosnia-Hercegovina suggesting that the referendum should take place in two stages . |
| 12 | I am sure it was then she either brought the latch down or , if it had already fallen , made sure it was in place . ’ |
| 13 | When Elizabeth of England died early on the morning of 24 March 1603 it had already become obvious to her entourage that James VI of Scotland was her only possible successor . |
| 14 | Towards the end of 1936 it had already become clear that the French blockade of Spain represented a serious blow to the Republican cause . |
| 15 | But despite the spirit of communal research which had begun to characterize their work , it had already become apparent that there was still a fundamental difference of approach between them . |
| 16 | He said that it had already led to the curtailment of five drilling contracts with thousands of potential job losses . |
| 17 | But most of it had already escaped the princes ' grasp in the tenth century ; in the course of the eleventh , it passed squarely into the hands of local castellans , who exacted fines and imposed penalties on their peasants with remorseless vigour . |
| 18 | So we have a story that may or may not be a story ( it had already appeared in The People back in January , when it raised few eyebrows ) , and a news reporter who suddenly finds himself giving press conferences rather than attending them . |
| 19 | That there were many factors to be considered is shown by the fact that in 1880 the depression was only just beginning to be felt by industry , while it had already hit agriculture badly . |
| 20 | In the final analysis , the Swann Report not only put aside what it had already acknowledged about the relatively poor performance of students of Bangladesh I origin , but ignored evidence that students of Mirpuri Pakistani origin were also under performing , while students of East African Asian origin seemed to be achieving exceptionally well . |
| 21 | It had already received three written warnings ( one for fighting , one for being under the influence of drugs while in charge of a wood-turning lathe , and one for lateness ) and either had to leave or face the sack . |
| 22 | But it had already made a difference in the balance of class origins of future generations . |
| 23 | UNITA , which had unilaterally downgraded the status of its delegation shortly before the talks , further claimed that it had already made concessions including the recognition of the ruling MPLA as a political party , and of President dos Santos as head of state . |
| 24 | After 1968 , genuine approval of his anti-Soviet stance gave a boost to the incipient cult and by 1974 it had already reached its high-point , from which it never subsided , but simply spread to a suffocating extent into all areas of public life . |
| 25 | The figure for males remained constant at 4.2 , probably because it had already reached ‘ saturation ’ point . |
| 26 | It had already gone . |
| 27 | A spokesman for IBM France said it had already earmarked 1,500 job cuts for 1993 through voluntary redundancies , but did not rule out further measures if the market deteriorated . |
| 28 | It had already invested £33 million in drilling projects to assess the feasibility of pumping cold water four miles below the surface into fractured hot rock and drawing it up sufficiently heated to generate power . |
| 29 | By the mid-nineteenth century it had already extended across the whole social spectrum . |
| 30 | It had already formed local pacts with the SzDSz in five counties , but on March 30 Antall announced that the HDF had formed an electoral pact with the Smallholders and the Christian Democratic People 's Party whereby the three parties would support the best placed candidate in each constituency . |