Example sentences of "[that] had already been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before . |
| 2 | The Tunnel was the British version of a film that had already been made in France and Germany , about a crazed engineer who sacrifices his family in order to complete the construction of a link between Britain and America . |
| 3 | By late afternoon at least 50 passengers had called off their trips on Flight 51 , while French airport police stepped up security that had already been tightened a week ago because of a feared terrorist attack . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By next day , though , the government confirmed that Japan will contribute $9 billion more to the Allies , a figure that had already been leaked . |
| 6 | The Americans , called on to prove their sincerity , could only do so in terms of the number of Hawks and TOWs that had already been shipped . |
| 7 | As a consequence the PFA continued to support George Eastham 's legal battle and it was not until 1964 that the case came to court and Sir Justice Wilberforce established the players ' legal right to the second freedom that had already been negotiated in 1961 . |
| 8 | These are the human remains that appear in the picture of the priests , from bodies that had already been torn apart by dogs before they were found in the sand . |
| 9 | The summary goes on to say that Stirling had asked the Eighth Army for thirty more jeeps that had already been ordered . |
| 10 | A decision was taken to use bus technology in producing a body to be mounted on the trucks that had already been designed by the Department and were operating successfully . |
| 11 | There is widespread suspicion that the two firms , along with the rest of the nuclear industry , were appalled by the revelations about operating methods at the power station that had already been given in testimony . |
| 12 | The idea that dinosaurs simply radiated into the ecological niches that had already been vacated , and that mammals I 30 million or so years later did the same thing after the dinosaurs had departed , has profound philosophical implications . |
| 13 | We felt that the tournament suited the premium image of The Famous Grouse very well and it consolidated the link with rugby that had already been established . |
| 14 | It was only Brian who had ever interrupted the even style of her working life by phoning or calling , to ask idiotic questions about things that had already been agreed or arranged , but forgotten through drink . |
| 15 | Fleischmann and Pons set out on a different course initially , but one that had already been charted in Europe in the 1920s and 30s . |
| 16 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 17 | In practice they overlap : for example , while the inner-city data was still being collected , we were analysing the tape-recordings that had already been obtained . |
| 18 | The health group took part in a nationwide survey into housing and health and started to investigate the research that had already been carried out into heart disease . |
| 19 | It was inevitable that if , in saying anything that blamed others , he did make admissions in part that would tend to confirm the accuracy of the allegations that had already been made against him . |
| 20 | In addition to those who usually sheltered there were the passengers from two tramcars , and people from a shelter that had already been hit . |
| 21 | The repossession problem was apparent a long time before the politicians decided it was an issue — the figure of 80,000 , which is equivalent to a town the size of Coventry , referred to homes that HAD already been repossessed . |
| 22 | The birds of a second group were put alone in a cage with a full milk container that had already been opened by the experimenters . |
| 23 | Carson ( 1971 ) identified the achievement that had already been made by the mechanics approach and predicted that more would follow , but that because most erosional processes are weathering-limited to varying degrees , therefore on a geological time-scale erosion mechanics must be closely linked with the mechanics and chemistry of rock breakdown . |
| 24 | A constant feature of most appraisals took the form of a circling sequence of perceptions and responses , returning again and again to aspects of the work that had already been considered . |
| 25 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 26 | ESRC funding enabled the research team to classify and analyse biographical material that had already been collected for the 1900-39 cohorts through record search and postal questionnaire for the 1940-67 cohorts . |
| 27 | The cardinals began to think of themselves as the hinges on which the universal Church turned , a comparison that had already been made by Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) and by Cardinal Deusdedit in the 1080s . |
| 28 | In his public appearances , he boasted tirelessly about the miracles of economic and social progress that had already been achieved and proselytized about the necessity of further modernization . |
| 29 | Under de Gaulle , the Council 's main function was to ratify decisions that had already been approved , if not made , by him . |
| 30 | Another view was that six-monthly reports should only be required in relation to those firms ( regardless of size ) that had already been late in delivering their annual reports . |