Example sentences of "already been [vb pp] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it has already been challenged by live sheep interests who are arguing that a large proportion of exported animals are sold for further feeding and not direct for slaughter . |
| 2 | Some development work has already been done by pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of bottles and caps , and satisfactory child resistant containers are expected to be available for use with liquid medicines in the near future . |
| 3 | Erm wo n't take up much time Chairman , because I think most of the points I want to cover have already been covered by previous speakers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hosepipe or sprinkler bans have already been imposed by four water companies in the Thames area : Three Valleys , Essex , Sutton and East Surrey . |
| 6 | The MacBride Principles have already been adopted by 24 states . |
| 7 | West Thurrock and Ironbridge have already been converted by National Power . |
| 8 | Land revenues , although boosted by the dissolution , had already been eroded by massive sales . |
| 9 | THE forthcoming pit closures will mean an extra headache for Barnsley Building Society , whose borrowers have already been hard-hit by earlier closures in the '80s . |
| 10 | But the stroke as accentual sign had already been used by older composers , among them Bach , Handel and Telemann . |
| 11 | The common practice of putting pencil notes on the abstract itself is to be deprecated as defacing an important document , and it is also easy to miss these notes on an old and tattered abstract that has already been marked by previous investigators . |
| 12 | Poor bus services have already been identified by new town bosses who want to carry out a full traffic survey with interested bodies , including Lothian Regional Council . |
| 13 | This part of the bill has already been criticised by wide sections of management . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Noelle is 5ft 6in and she 's already been approached by another agency , ’ she says ruefully . |
| 16 | Moreover ( and this point has already been appreciated by alert education advisers ) in-service training within the school does not require extra staff , extra equipment or extra classroom space ; it makes use of what is immediately and necessarily available . |
| 17 | A letter of intent has already been signed by local government and a Malaysian investment company , but approval is pending from Peking and the International Motor Racing Association . |
| 18 | SGI 's Iris GL has already been endorsed by large sections of the industry , including DEC , IBM , Microsoft Corp and Intel Corp , as a standard for their high-end graphics developments . |
| 19 | But roughly every five years a tide of warm water ( up to 30°C ) flows down the coast from the equator ; the nutrients in this water have already been removed by equatorial plankton . |