Example sentences of "[conj] it have already been " in BNC.

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1 Parma became renowned for its elegance during the reign of Maria Luigia , Napoleon 's second wife , daughter of the Emperor of Austria and mother of the King of Rome , when she was Duchess of Parma , Piacenza and Guastalla ; although it had already been famous under the Farnese and the Bourbons .
2 Edward had passed it on and — although it had already been known about — was confirmed in the eyes of Winston 's men as somebody to trust .
3 A variety of tempers were used as additives to clays ; whether the choice was conscious or not has yet to be studied , although it has already been observed that the same clay was used with different tempers in certain places .
4 When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid .
5 I pointed out that it had already been a month , and there was no record of me on the Chicago computer .
6 This bridge ( Cowley Bridge ) , built by James Green , the county surveyor , in 1813–14 , is so fine in design that it has already been scheduled and protected as an ancient monument .
7 Their grant has been frozen in real terms at much below the level at which they could expect to survive on it ; they have been denied entitlement to income support , housing benefits and rebates ; there are no jobs with which they can supplement their incomes during vacations ; and those who find themselves desperately hard up discover , when they turn to the hardship fund , that it has already been exhausted .
8 The data will be retrieved from the database , assuming that it has already been collected and stored .
9 She laughed him off , saying he was becoming obsessed with that MP and it had already been noticed that his column carried far too many stories about him .
10 And it 's already been
11 Like the insect , its span has been short and it has already been superseded by the Double Whammy campaign .
12 However , a paper read at the International Bar Asssociation meeting in the summer by the Spanish lawyer on the Thyssen Foundation 's board , Rodrigo Uria , and Richard Turnor , of the firm of Allen and Overy acting for Baron Thyssen , reveals that the Baron has been concerned to keep his options open : not a single work of art was sent into Spain until it had already been granted its export licence out of Spain .
13 Contextually , the notional component of the verb is assigned thematic status if it has already been mentioned .
14 Nor , normally , can an accounting reference period be extended if it has already been extended during the previous five years .
15 No brief summary can possibly do justice to the depth of the analysis ; but it has already been tried out on some uncommonly hard-nosed customers , and elicited their approbation .
16 It was supposed to be for just a day , or maybe two , but it has already been a week … ’
17 Mowry 's semi-autobiographical account avoids either gun glamour or sentimentalism , but it 's already been snapped up by Hollywood which will no doubt insist on both
18 The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be .
19 The components of a chemical compound can be identified and their concentrations measured , but unless it has already been proved that the particular component identified is odorous at the concentration encountered , such measurements will have little evidential value in proving the odour complained of either does or does not amount to a nuisance at law .
20 Using option 5.3.2 — Update Issue , the issue may be updated further unless it has already been despatched whereupon only the contact name and maintenance dates may be changed .
21 Using this option again ( option 5.3.2 — Update Issue ) , the issue may be updated further unless it has already been despatched whereupon only the contact name and maintenance dates may be changed .
22 I mean the Marxism was the motivation just as it was for the Chinese but er I do n't think the Russian revolution remained Marxist revolution for very long But the achievement of revolution did make it possible for the success of revolution to be seen by the Chinese because it had already been achieved .
23 Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ?
24 If my memory serves me correctly , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment said that Humberside would be the first because it has already been the subject of a local government boundary commission report .
25 Taken by Mr Browning to view it — though since it had already been rented her approval was of no importance — she was at once charmed .
26 Since it has already been mentioned , let us take the case of the so-called Breeches Bible , from the reading in Genesis iii.7 ‘ and they sowed fig leaves together , and made themselves breeches .
27 The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long .
28 after it 's already been approved by planning , but it 's with the sub-committee and one anticipates that today , when they 're meeting that sub-committee will come back and will inform us that South Oxfordshire are in support of this .
29 In that case , could the Minister tell us whether it has already been agreed which firm will provide the gas pipeline ?
30 It was written out of deep respect for the victims and their kin , and The Smiths felt it was an important enough song to put on their last single even though it had already been released on L.P. In a word it is a memorial to the children and all like them who have sufferered such a fate .
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