Example sentences of "already [been] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ An enormous amount of time and money has already been poured into this challenge . |
| 3 | It has already been argued in some detail that foot the bill is semantically transparent . |
| 4 | It has already been argued in this Report that music is not appropriately used in worship primarily in order to instil or increase fellowship . |
| 5 | But this culture has already been defined in this way partially because of the existence in it of this particular kind of music . |
| 6 | Both the following sentences may be accepted as grammatical , but only the second is equivalent to any sentence which has already been cited in this section : ( 46 ) ill , their best salesman fell breathless , two stagehands appeared |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With regard to treatment , this subject has already been covered in some detail . |
| 10 | The play has already been written over several months by an enthusiastic team from all the churches involved ; and by the time of going to press casting will already have taken place and all performing groups : the singers , dancers and actors , will be involved in their own regular rehearsals in March . |
| 11 | A great deal has already been written on this field ( see Christian Communication : An Annotated Bibliography , Westport , Conn. , Greenwood Press , 1989 , 387pp ) , and several organising frameworks for this study have been developed , partly through WACC 's impulses in the mid-1980s . |
| 12 | It reviews research that has already been conducted in this area and offers suggestions as to what may be priorities for future support . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Most ELT series are intended to supplement what is in the textbook not to replace it and they are intended to be used to consolidate the learning of language that has already been presented in another form . |
| 15 | Any object that an individual has had for a long time , a favourite book for example , has already been affected by that individual 's electrical impulses . |
| 16 | The frequency with which references to rural housing have already been made in this chapter reflects the extent to which the housing market acts as an intermediary between the economic changes in agriculture , described earlier in this book , and the kind of social life which is now to be found in the English countryside . |
| 17 | Orders for payment by the plaintiffs of costs to be taxed on the standard basis have already been made in this action . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 21 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 22 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 23 | The strategy has already been applied with some success ( see box ) to Zurich 's American business . |
| 24 | Momentarily she digested the horrible implication , that by nineteen-eighty the work on Titron had reached a stage where an enlarged adult human foetus had presumably already been tested against many diseases — and was a norm . |
| 25 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 26 | When a module name is first entered into LIFESPAN , it is checked to ensure that the same name has not already been chosen for another module . |
| 27 | Some of them have already been used in this book . |
| 28 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 29 | One method of operation is known as the ‘ core and cluster ’ system , which has already been tried in several parts of the country . |
| 30 | Mr Gandhi 's murder came in the middle of a general-election campaign that had already been marred by more killing , intimidation and vote-grabbing than India had seen in any of its nine previous elections . |