Example sentences of "had already [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the round table and the Volkskammer voted on Feb. 5 to ban activities of the West German neo-Nazi Republicans , whose leader had already repeatedly been denied entrance to the country in recent months . |
| 2 | Following the debates Bush appeared to step back from further character attacks on Clinton , a development which led to speculation that he had already privately accepted the inevitability of his defeat and was seeking to preserve a degree of presidential dignity . |
| 3 | According to Radio Ukraine , 3,500 officers not taking the oath had already voluntarily left the service and settled in Ukraine . |
| 4 | Over the years this must have harmed his chest , as it had already badly discoloured his teeth . |
| 5 | Two of us had already previously met , but we were nervous and shy and wary of each other . |
| 6 | The 40 per cent level in the UK had already nearly been achieved by the early 1960s . |
| 7 | At the same time were born new heroes and demigods ; the Hollywood dream factory , which had already indelibly stamped the character of both North America and Great Britain by the 1940s , began to spin its web of enticement over the whole of popular culture . |
| 8 | Committee chairman David Lyonette said outside the meeting the authority had already successfully removed billboards around the town including Haughton Road and was looking at removing others along High Northgate . |
| 9 | They had already carefully taken away the entire orchard , roots and all , and the glass and window frames from the hostel buildings . |
| 10 | Her father would be back in New York on Sunday and Thomas had already carefully explained what he intended to do . |
| 11 | He had already clearly laid down his view in his opening speech to the session , in which he recognised that perestroika had so far made little impact on the acute social and economic crisis . |
| 12 | By 1983 , the EPA had already either approved or proposed to approve 150 bubbles , with a saving to industry of $500 million . |
| 13 | I hoped the exploration would go well and that the cancer would be confined to the kidney I had already rather sadly signed away . |
| 14 | Yet the prohibition of cock-fighting and animal-baiting was only politically possible because of the tacit consent of the landed élite , who had already largely desert ed these activities for more exclusive and civilized ones . |
| 15 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 16 | The drop-goal attempt was surely the best option ; Chalmers had already just popped one over . |
| 17 | Egypt had already secretly proposed that Israel should set up a Palestine Liberation Committee to pursue a solution to the refugee problem in the form of a small Palestinian state in the Arab-held parts of Palestine . |
| 18 | Having successfully demonstrated the safety of his method of treatment so that it was being adopted by inoculators throughout the country Sutton had already unwittingly performed his greatest service in the fight against smallpox . |
| 19 | There was no disputing the hard truth behind his words — someting for which she had already severely upbraided herself . |
| 20 | He grinned slyly at Caswell , who had already twice taken out and then put away his cigarettes . |
| 21 | Roseau 's family now claim he was the victim of right-wing pied noir extremists , who had already twice beaten him up and who were unhappy with Roseau 's association with the Gaullists . |
| 22 | many of the CNAA 's diagnoses of Teesside Polytechnic 's ills had already long been articulated by staff within the college , and to a great extent the CNAA report was welcomed by the teaching body . |
| 23 | Before the decision on its abolition , the ILEA had already virtually abandoned the recommendations of The Fish Report , although some of the topic papers continued to support the idea of integration in general , unspecified ways . |
| 24 | Curiously husky , his voice beguiled her ears as powerfully as his hands were seducing her body , caressing her naked skin beneath her simple top , tantalising the sensitised surface , warm and demanding , seeking the clasp of her flesh-coloured bra , dismantling it with a sure touch that might have come from practice but could equally well have been attributed to simple deduction , except that nothing was simple about this man who had already knowingly conquered her body … åd , unknowingly , her heart as well . |
| 25 | The hospital did not admit the child because they had already too many in the same condition . |
| 26 | There were plenty of bars and restaurants to choose from , but Sabine had already mentally opted for a simple meal . |
| 27 | Although a parliamentary report presented in April 1988 found no evidence of corrupt dealings [ see p. 36030 ] , the affair had already seriously damaged the standing of the Gandhi government . |
| 28 | On Sept. 6 the three Baltic Foreign Ministers , A. Saudargas ( Lithuania ) , Janis Jurkans ( Latvia ) and Lennart Merri ( Estonia ) , went to Brussels to present a request for associate membership of the European Communities ( EC ) , which had already formally stated its recognition of them as independent states . |
| 29 | Only make the right wing strong ’ ) , and his successor as Chief of Staff , General Helmuth von Moltke , while broadly adopting Schlieffen 's plan , had already fatally modified it through timidity . |