Example sentences of "already been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACET has already been drawn overseas and is working in Romania , Uganda and Tanzania , in partnership with local church-based projects and in conjunction with government programmes . |
| 2 | Half a million babies have already been born with HIV in Africa . |
| 3 | There will be no attempt to define exactly what art criticism is , or to set out a theory of criticism , beyond the suggestions of some differences in writings on art which have already been made . |
| 4 | As a book on a single subject , there is a good chance that the need for description will be reduced by extensive illustration , while a favourable judgement on the work has already been implied by the choice of the subject for a monograph . |
| 5 | Some of the work for a museum catalogue may have already been done before the acquisition of a picture . |
| 6 | This account raises two significant issues about description ; one is parallel to comments on photography which have already been made . |
| 7 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 8 | I had already been part of the theatre working as an ASM at the Cambridge Arts Theatre , not with the University but with the |
| 9 | As has already been seen , it was the style of both church and politicians to avoid their mutual consultations being known , which tells us that the secularity of the state at that time was partially a façade , but one which it was felt by both interested parties had to be maintained , probably so as not to confuse the faithful . |
| 10 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 11 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 12 | But he could equally well have said one is enthusiasm and the other is cynicism , one is facility and the other is aridity , one is gregariousness and the other is solitude , one is the belief that no one has ever done anything of value before and the other is the belief that everything has already been done , one is spontaneity and the other is cerebration , one is joy and the other is despair , one is heart and the other is mind , one is the garret and the other is the penthouse , one is sincerity and the other is irony , one is Jung and the other is Freud , one is Rimbaud and the other is Mallarmé , one is wine and the other is coffee , one is rags and the other is riches , one is women and the other is celibacy , one is health and the other is disease , one is meat and the other is vegetables , one is life and the other is death , one is everything in upper case and the other is everything in lower case , one is everything in roman and the other is everything in italics . |
| 13 | The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered . |
| 14 | However , if the pilot is thinking ahead , that option could have already been considered and he could have had the plan ready for use if more height was lost . |
| 15 | Never stay in the sun until your skin goes red — the damage has already been done . |
| 16 | A chain of self-help groups has already been set up throughout the country by concerned parents . |
| 17 | ‘ You have already been given a full briefing on the facts , ’ said the President . |
| 18 | Also please note that any Training Fund applications submitted within the last four weeks for courses organised by the Training Division have already been forwarded to them for attention . |
| 19 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 20 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 21 | Norwich-Birmingham had already been tried , with locomotive-hauled stock , but putting together the services which previously had separately linked Liverpool , Warrington Central , Manchester ; Blackpool and Manchester ; Sheffield via the Hope Valley line ; Nottingham , Grantham , Peterborough , Ely and Ipswich/Norwich and Harwich Parkeston Quay , was a bold move from which has developed a popular route on which much new business is emerging . |
| 22 | The gestures of such pastoral characters as Lise and Colas in La Fille Mal Gardée have already been noted ( -see page 100 ) as well as that of Lise churning and helping her Mother to spin . |
| 23 | It has already been noted that the movements in Ashton 's five abstract ballets have been coloured by the music , its period and sometimes by the composer 's own thoughts ( see page 42 ) . |
| 24 | Unqualified appeals have already been published in Television ( journal of the Royal Television Society ) , Image Technology , ( journal of the BKSTS ) , Nature and the AES Journal . |
| 25 | The commentaries would not be designed for the general reader but for the specialist , who , looking up Zapp , would find that the book , article or thesis he had been planning had already been anticipated and , more likely than not , invalidated . |
| 26 | Something of the sort has already been introduced into some English degrees , under the aegis of the Verbal Arts Association , who have made a welcome start with such work . |
| 27 | A strong political lobby has already been mounted in Washington , arguing United ‘ will remain a truly American asset ’ because of the staff participation . |
| 28 | Of the 90,000 tonnes of wheat needed in Kabul to survive the winter , 37,000 tonnes have already been stockpiled , General Hakim said . |
| 29 | ‘ The concern must be whether interest rates have already been too high for too long , ’ Mr Wyatt said . |
| 30 | The governor of Hainan , a firm supporter of Zhao 's liberal economic policies , has already been sacked amid allegations of corruption . |