Example sentences of "already [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the first evening 16–17,000 men had already been mustered on Haldon Hill and other reinforcements , including 7000 tin-workers from Cornwall , were on their way , but the Lord Lieutenant of the county , the Earl of Bath , who arrived to take command , was an experienced regular officer and was not prepared to risk sending the militia against Louis XIV 's troops . |
| 2 | This approach , which had already been followed by several German theologians in the nineteenth century , especially Gottfried Thomasius ( 1802–15 ) , took its cue from Philippians 2:7 , which speaks of Christ as having ‘ emptied himself ’ ( in Greek , ekenosen ) . |
| 3 | This is not , of course , a new suggestion and , to a rather limited extent , it is one which has already been followed . |
| 4 | What , however , is the position if , at the time of the buyer 's wrongful anticipatory repudiation , the seller had already been disabled from completing the essential terms of the contract ( e.g. the seller 's factory making the goods was already so far behind in production that the seller could not possibly have delivered the goods by the contractual delivery date ) . |
| 5 | When this happens , the assumptions which developed during the 50s and 60s of the young person as an independent , affluent wage earner and consumer , assumptions which have already been challenged by the changes I have described here , will have to be finally cast aside . |
| 6 | His political position in the Democratic Party had already been challenged : an anti-war candidate , Senator Eugene McCarthy , had run him a very close second in the New Hampshire primary , and Robert Kennedy had entered the race for the Democratic nomination . |
| 7 | Peter Bergg , claimed the valuation process was being rushed and said estimates had already been challenged by the Inland Revenue . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Its findings have already been challenged by several regional councils and by Professor Arthur Midwinter , of the Department of Politics at Strathclyde University . |
| 10 | Mr Roy Hattersley , the shadow Home Secretary , said he was deeply uneasy about rushing legislation through Parliament to try suspects who had already been named . |
| 11 | All I need do was agree to a list of people who had already been named , so I would n't be hurting anyone . |
| 12 | Laurie Mains , the former Otago and All Black fullback who nursed Otago to win the national first division championship last winter , has already been named as coach of the All Blacks in place of the unavailable Alex Wyllis . |
| 13 | Genette systematically coins new terms for aspects of narrative which have already been named but which imply a psychological or realist element : flashback becomes amalepsis , point of view becomes focalization , the opposition between telling and showing is translated back into Plato 's terms diegesis and mimesis , and so on . |
| 14 | But at least people know what has already been discovered , what has already been said twenty or fifty or seventy years ago . |
| 15 | I finally turned to Kent , not because of what had already been discovered there but because it was on my doorstep and a lot more accessible than either France or Wiltshire . |
| 16 | The lessees were entitled to search for copper , lead , iron ore and iron stone , or mine such as had already been discovered , with liberty for " … ingress egress & regress … " |
| 17 | With the consumer industry and media boffins jamming up behind one another to support the unquestionably fine ideals of conservation , one can only wish that they would ask themselves as they prepare to board one more rolling bandwagon whether they really have anything to add to what has already been said . |
| 18 | Something has already been said as to the assignment of ordinary debts and ‘ choses in action' ; and the law relating to negotiable instruments — bills of exchange , cheques , and promissory notes — will be dealt with in the next chapter . |
| 19 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
| 20 | What has already been said about thermal hazards can also apply at work . |
| 21 | Much has already been said to help you evaluate the importance of each symptom . |
| 22 | The clause cited from the will , however , is not a pure example of a trust clause , for its purpose is not purely to confirm in trust form what has already been said in civil-law terms . |
| 23 | One family is , as has already been said , a Quaker family ; another family belongs to the Church of Scotland , and one family is Baptist . |
| 24 | Given what has already been said about identity , it is unlikely that we shall find in the anorexic a unity of text . |
| 25 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
| 26 | Implicit in what has already been said is the inescapable fact that many old people have , by reason of physical frailty , a degree of enforced dependence which is unwelcome . |
| 27 | This is not merely a matter of re-stating what had already been said ; it involves a genuine progress and advance towards a fuller and clearer understanding enabled by the onward movement of history . |
| 28 | From what has already been said it is possible to gain a rough understanding of the second and third of these claims . |
| 29 | The main mass and requiem mass had already been said in the RC Church in Notting Hill . |
| 30 | But at least people know what has already been discovered , what has already been said twenty or fifty or seventy years ago . |