Example sentences of "already [been] [vb pp] [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 strategy has already been applied with some success ( see box ) to Zurich 's American business . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some of them have already been used in this book . |
| 23 | One method of operation is known as the ‘ core and cluster ’ system , which has already been tried in several parts of the country . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Noelle is 5ft 6in and she 's already been approached by another agency , ’ she says ruefully . |
| 26 | The stoma care nurse has already been mentioned in this context . |
| 27 | The Monasticon Anglicanum has already been mentioned in this book . |
| 28 | This is the same proposal , associated with the Port Royal grammar and earlier versions of Chomskyan grammar , which has already been mentioned in this chapter in connexion with prenominal attributives ( 3.2 and 3.3 ) ; or rather it is part of the same proposal , since the full clause with adjective in post-copular position is claimed as the " origin " for both sorts of attributive . |
| 29 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 30 | ( Note : this raises the issues of trust and the capabilities of subordinates , which have already been discussed in this chapter . ) |