Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] already [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's criticism of the composition of the pre-1991 authorities has already been made . |
| 2 | The possibility of transfer of responsibility to central government agencies for some services previously provided by local authorities has already been mentioned . |
| 3 | A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields . |
| 4 | Some work on the plans has already been carried out . |
| 5 | The often painful political processes by which feminists arrived at their anti-elitist linguistic norms has already been erased , and the norms themselves have been naturalised . |
| 6 | Main trends : The continent-wide adoption of ‘ New Mathematics ’ programmes has already been noted . |
| 7 | The high proportion of suicide attempters who visit their general practitioners not long before making attempts has already been noted ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 8 | A chain of self-help groups has already been set up throughout the country by concerned parents . |
| 9 | Each of the words within the compounds has already been assigned a root-index as in table 4.5 . |
| 10 | The ending of the monopoly of solicitors over house sales conveyancing and of opticians over the sale of spectacles has already been noted . |
| 11 | The price of BZW 's ill-considered worldwide expansion in equities has already been paid by Howard Coates : in February he was sacked as head of the firm 's equities division , though he remains with BZW . |
| 12 | The drive towards numerical and managerial performance indicators has already been mentioned . |
| 13 | Retrospective appraisal by clients has already been rejected as a lawyer-influenced criterion . |
| 14 | What you do about grey hairs has already been discussed . |
| 15 | If the phases were to be overlapped in this way , it would clearly be necessary for the Supplement entries to have already been positioned in their correct places following corresponding OED entries or between unrelated OED entries , as described above . |
| 16 | Important steps had already been taken that were to lead to the decision . |
| 17 | It explained that steps had already been taken to reduce future UK exploration commitments . |
| 18 | According to some reports approximately 9,000 suspected Islamic activists or sympathizers had already been arrested since a state of emergency was imposed in February [ see pp. 38790-91 ] . |
| 19 | So the Imperial Fists scrutinised transcripts of trials and criminal records involving youngsters , hunting for a special blend of ingenuity , daring , will power — quite often suitable candidates had already been executed by the time the Fists learned of their existence , now cut short by poison gas or explosive bullet . |
| 20 | What he did n't know was that the captives had already been moved over two thousand miles to the east . |
| 21 | 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 ] . |
| 22 | Four political parties had already been allocated an exact number of seats in the Little Hural from party preferences returned during the July elections [ see table below ] . |
| 23 | The kids had already been put in voluntary care due to the car crash and I could n't get them back until three months after I came out . |
| 24 | The fact that the Ward documents may contain the identity of sources may indicate that the informants had already been compromised and were no longer active by 1984 , when the latter of the two memoranda was apparently written . |
| 25 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 26 | Their own experiences at the Front , and the fact that in many of their villages and townships heavier losses had already been recorded than in the First World War , contradicted what Hitler had had to say . |
| 27 | Psychoanalysis had evolved into a highly therapeutic undertaking , which was very very and institutionalized for therapy , and the black books had already been blackened , as it were . |
| 28 | The gangs had already been selected to work on the other three small coasters which had arrived over the past weekend . |
| 29 | The results for some other questions on calendars have already been considered in the section on time . |
| 30 | In soils energy considerations have already been noted ( p. 142 ) and Gerrard ( 1981 ) referring to Runge ( 1973 ) has reviewed the energy status of soil systems by recognizing three components . |