Example sentences of "[vb past] already [been] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for example , in ex parte Johnson one analysis of the speech of Lord Roskill would suggest that material was examined to confirm a construction of a statutory provision which had already been firmly reached . |
| 2 | I did n't know then that she had already been well questioned , by my mother , by her teacher , Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all . |
| 3 | The book 's central part , represented by " Socrates and Greek Tragedy " , had already been well worked and , apart from some reordering , was left virtually as it was ; the rest required more attention , but on 12 December he was able to send off the final portions of the manuscript , including a new , short , preface to Wagner . " |
| 4 | Health and hygiene were also cited , with special reference to women s " future usefulness as wives and mothers " , These arguments had already been well rehearsed in France , where in 1862 there was a major strike by the Paris compositors against the employment of women . |
| 5 | This had already been widely adopted as the name of a higher school . |
| 6 | In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism . |
| 7 | Marchmont was driven to complain that Anson had been ready enough to promise that he would ‘ do it the first moment it was possible ’ , and had already been strongly urged to promote Lieutenant Home by the Duke of Newcastle , but yet had done nothing . |
| 8 | At the beginning of the Triassic the dominant land animals were the mammal-like reptiles , the synapsids , although they had already been badly affected by dramatic events at the end of the Permian ; catastrophic events of the kind that are now known to have turned the course of Earth 's history several times . |
| 9 | His irreverent view of black states had already been comically revealed in Black Mischief ( 1932 ) ; and as a convert to Rome in 1930 he watched in 1936 , and without regret , the overthrow of a Spanish Republic violently intolerant of a Church he loved . |
| 10 | Only after the civil war broke out between Christians and Druze did the French put troops ashore , but European ‘ interest ’ in Lebanon had already been clearly established . |
| 11 | Idly , Valence rubbed one of the runes on his own cheek , as though the ex-tech had already been similarly honoured , or anticipated honour . |
| 12 | I wonder if any of your readers noticed in The Times of 10 March how Lord Armstrong of Ilminster of the Victoria and Albert Museum 's Trustees , quite casually assumed that the independence of our national museums had already been similarly compromised ? |
| 13 | What an awful pity they recommended a medicine which had already been emphatically rejected by the patient . |
| 14 | In 1343 Archbishop Zouche of York at first resisted the king 's nominee for the deanery of York because Cardinal Talleyrand had already been papally provided ; when the king 's judges found against him , Zouche acquiesced in the royal candidate , rejected the cardinal and endured papal excommunication for the last four years of his life . |
| 15 | The king 's own influence in the north rested primarily on the support of local men , and the appointment of a lieutenant could do little more than seek to transfer that support , something which had already been largely achieved through recognition of Gloucester 's role as his brother 's agent in the north . |
| 16 | The king 's own influence in the north rested primarily on the support of local men , and the appointment of a lieutenant could do little more than seek to transfer that support , something which had already been largely achieved through recognition of Gloucester 's role as his brother 's agent in the north . |
| 17 | In practice , many school children had already been long integrated into industrial production : the windscreen wipers or the ubiquitous Dacia 1300 , for instance , were often assembled by fifteen-year-olds in Transylvanian Sibiu . |
| 18 | This Directive had already been substantially revised in response to the comments of the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee , and had begun its fruitless journey six years before . |
| 19 | The royal family , in the House of Ipatyev , had already been brutally murdered eight days earlier . |
| 20 | Lord Parker C.J. said ‘ The words on the foil cap were an accurate trade description of the milk , and in their context the words on the bottle did not refer to the milk which had already been accurately described , but merely conveyed , as the fact was , that it was a bottle belonging to the person whose name was embossed . |
| 21 | An Albanian had already been seriously wounded by a Greek military patrol on March 12 in Kalpaqi near Ioaninna . |