Example sentences of "[vb past] already been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd already been marinaded in red wine and spices before being fried up with onions , mushrooms and ginger . |
| 2 | In a further development concerning the scandal , it was announced by the authorities on Dec. 22 that no further indictments would be filed either against Kanemaru — who had already been indicted on minor charges — or against any of the other Diet members implicated in the receipt of Sagawa Kyubin funds . |
| 3 | Press reports beforehand had confidently pronounced that an agreement had already been reached during private discussions , providing for the start of a concerted programme of involuntary repatriation . |
| 4 | The reason this cumbersome arrangement was used was because the simple crank had already been patented in 1780 . |
| 5 | As a movement in the same direction the German foreign office set up a legal and commercial department in 1885 and the British one acquired a legal adviser in 1893 ( a post of Legal Assistant Under-Secretary had already been created in 1876 ) . |
| 6 | I think his system had already been weakened by some other compound , anyway . ’ |
| 7 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 8 | Knowing the complications and expense involved in getting together the various unguents required , one can assume that these items had already been accumulated by those to whom the task of embalming the royal remains had been devolved . |
| 9 | Although negotiations on arms reductions were about to resume in Geneva when Gorbachev assumed the general secretaryship , Cruise and Pershing-II weapons had already been deployed in Western Europe following the NATO ‘ dual track ’ decision of 1979 ( this was itself represented as a response to the Soviet decision to replace its ageing SS-4 and -5 missiles in Eastern Europe with more modern SS-20s ) . |
| 10 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 11 | A host of new political parties had already been formed in various parts of the Soviet Union [ for February-March 1990 multiparty elections in the Baltic republics see pp. 37299-300 ; 37321-22 ; for October elections in Georgia see below ] . |
| 12 | Indeed , scores of battalions had already been formed from ethnic minorities on an ad hoc basis by German formations in the field , and by late 1943 the total would exceed 400,000 men . |
| 13 | This clearance was important because I did intend to ask one or two questions about a matter which had already been aired in several books and articles , her love affair with H. G. Wells and the child of that union , the writer Anthony West . |
| 14 | By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months . |
| 15 | The vehicles were definitely wearing out now , Nos. 64 and 72 had already been withdrawn in 1955 , 490 was withdrawn in June 1957 and 71 in May 1958 , followed by 489 in September 1958 . |
| 16 | They had not , however , been trained in forensic medicine , and they prescribed several drugs in excessive doses after the prisoner had already been withdrawn from opioid drugs . |
| 17 | This approach , which had already been followed by several German theologians in the nineteenth century , especially Gottfried Thomasius ( 1802–15 ) , took its cue from Philippians 2:7 , which speaks of Christ as having ‘ emptied himself ’ ( in Greek , ekenosen ) . |
| 18 | The nuclear assets and liabilities of the former nationalized Scottish electricity boards had already been transferred to Scottish Nuclear which , as with the English nuclear power industry , remained wholly government-owned . |
| 19 | further considered that there was no advantage , and some disadvantage , in reassembling the court so that the jury could re-hear a passage which had already been played in open court . |
| 20 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 21 | In the first room he looked into , the window space had already been commandeered by two native pensioners and an indigo planter ; in the next room he was just in time to see the camel guns fired … the sofa recoiled on its protesting castors and the men serving the guns set to work to re-load . |
| 22 | The significance of internal structures had already been accepted in some cases ( otherwise whales and dolphins would be classified as fish rather than as mammals ) , but Cuvier made this central to the classification of the whole animal kingdom . |
| 23 | Undamped relaxation oscillations had already been seen in such lasers , and at the time of writing there is the exciting prospect that the Lorenz system of equations may soon develop an experimental significance in laser physics to match their theoretical impact . |
| 24 | Like the previous speakers I greatly welcome the concessions er proposed by the Government er in the police aspect of the Bill , although I c ca n't refrain from commenting that I simply can not understand why they were surprised at the reaction to their original proposal , given what had already been said in this House and by everybody that they consulted , but welcome though these concessions are , er I myself find them falling short of the ideal in three respects . |
| 25 | S. , who had already been charged with numerous offences arising from transactions to which the documents were germane , sought judicial review of the decision to serve the notice . |
| 26 | When Keynes 's memorandum was discussed in Cabinet in February 1946 , defence expenditure for 1946/7 had already been cut by 14 per cent . |
| 27 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 28 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 29 | Within this category , Britoil , Enterprise Oil , and British Aerospace had already been privatized by 1986 , with British Airways and the British Airports Authority soon to follow . |
| 30 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |