Example sentences of "had already be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 2 | I had already been part of the theatre working as an ASM at the Cambridge Arts Theatre , not with the University but with the |
| 3 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 4 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 5 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 6 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 7 | Norwich-Birmingham had already been tried , with locomotive-hauled stock , but putting together the services which previously had separately linked Liverpool , Warrington Central , Manchester ; Blackpool and Manchester ; Sheffield via the Hope Valley line ; Nottingham , Grantham , Peterborough , Ely and Ipswich/Norwich and Harwich Parkeston Quay , was a bold move from which has developed a popular route on which much new business is emerging . |
| 8 | The commentaries would not be designed for the general reader but for the specialist , who , looking up Zapp , would find that the book , article or thesis he had been planning had already been anticipated and , more likely than not , invalidated . |
| 9 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 10 | Barcelona had already been refused a penalty , but they soon drew level through Julio Salinas , the deceptively inelegant striker who has taken Gary Lineker 's reluctant ill-fitted role on the right wing and , on Saturday , made such a good job of it that he might have had a hat-trick but for Francisco Buyo 's reflexes . |
| 11 | ‘ We did not accept his resignation because we felt he had already been dismissed in the summer , ’ Lawrie Hargrave said . |
| 12 | There had been widespread fears of police violence , and water cannon had already been used against demonstrators on Saturday . |
| 13 | Mr Prescott said yesterday : ‘ For the authority not to have been able to answer these sorts of questions , without going to Eurotunnel at that late stage when rolling stock had already been ordered , is totally unacceptable . ’ |
| 14 | On the EMS , Sir Leon said that the Government 's primary criterion for entry -that of falling inflation — had already been met . |
| 15 | She had already been given an operation for biliary atresia which is designed to unblock or bypass the blockage leaving scar tissue which is more likely to bleed . |
| 16 | Mr Ozberk had already been taken , handcuffed and escorted by police , to the police station at Heathrow airport from the Haslar detention centre , near Gosport , Hampshire , when Mr Renton 's new orders were given to the Immigration Service . |
| 17 | The fact that the Ward documents may contain the identity of sources may indicate that the informants had already been compromised and were no longer active by 1984 , when the latter of the two memoranda was apparently written . |
| 18 | A very large amount had already been collected on a voluntary basis by religious groups for the Famine , making it seem almost superfluous or extortionate to do more . |
| 19 | By 1920 the government had already been giving public support to 7,667,769 children in need . |
| 20 | In addition , the compulsory re-selection of all parliamentary candidates , including sitting MPs , had already been agreed , to give spokesmen of the far left in constituency management committees the power to remove right-wing or moderate figures . |
| 21 | Substantial increases on the previous year were made by 446 Branches , 138 Branches sustained their last year 's contribution , which in many cases had already been a record , and only 43 were significantly down . |
| 22 | Churchill replied the following day that an agreement had already been reached until Berle had introduced new proposals on 18 November . |
| 23 | When Keynes 's memorandum was discussed in Cabinet in February 1946 , defence expenditure for 1946/7 had already been cut by 14 per cent . |
| 24 | As soon as she entered the room she knew that Clare had already been telling tales ; or at least complaining to her colleagues . |
| 25 | By 1858 , however , ten years after The Manifesto , their historical horizon had already been pushed further back . |
| 26 | In this classification Morgan , and Engels after him , were following a very widely accepted schema of their time which , as we have seen , had already been used , albeit somewhat differently , by Marx . |
| 27 | It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before . |
| 28 | He also confirmed that the decision had already been taken to produce the ‘ Impact ’ electric car ( above ) , first revealed at this year 's Geneva motor show , although a firm launch date has yet to be decided . |
| 29 | Most of the merchandise outside greengrocers ' and florists ' had already been taken in and now it was the turn of the sunblinds to be furled and waterproof awnings to take their place . |
| 30 | Herman , whom Erika had already been keeping at a safe distance from her feet , backed away . |