Example sentences of "[vb past] already [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as if she 'd already been questioned on the rack , and fitzAlan had n't even tried to force any definite answers out of her . |
| 2 | From his demeanour , fierce and uncompromising , I knew he 'd already been denounced by Martinho . |
| 3 | They 'd already been marinaded in red wine and spices before being fried up with onions , mushrooms and ginger . |
| 4 | The walkers delivered copies of letters which had already been mailed to the embassy giving details of the concern raised by Amnesty in appeals featured in the 30th Anniversary campaign . |
| 5 | Coffee was a nauseous substitute concocted from acorns ; bread had already been rationed by the beginning of 1915 to about 2 Ibs a week , and goodness knows what was added to the flour to make it so grey and gritty ! |
| 6 | Five former employees at the post office had already been indicted on charges of drug dealing and embezzlement . |
| 7 | In a further development concerning the scandal , it was announced by the authorities on Dec. 22 that no further indictments would be filed either against Kanemaru — who had already been indicted on minor charges — or against any of the other Diet members implicated in the receipt of Sagawa Kyubin funds . |
| 8 | Some of the manuscript diaries had already been destroyed by his widow , and the bulk of the remainder were also destroyed in obscure circumstances by his niece , into whose hands they had passed , in the 1950s . |
| 9 | Increased credits and social security provisions had already been announced by Yeltsin at the Congress of People 's Deputies [ see above ] . |
| 10 | On July 14 , when a PRI victory had already been announced by Michoacán 's State Electoral Commission , thousands of PRD supporters in the state capital , Morelia , protested against what they claimed had been widespread fraud . |
| 11 | Lamont 's most dramatic announcement , however , related to the poll tax ( in which respect a community charge reduction scheme had already been announced in January , designed to benefit charge-payers by over £1,000 million in 1991-92 ) . |
| 12 | Press reports beforehand had confidently pronounced that an agreement had already been reached during private discussions , providing for the start of a concerted programme of involuntary repatriation . |
| 13 | ( At this point agreement had already been reached on a number of issues , including revised provisions on human rights , environmental protection and birth control measures ; the admission of new members ; and the doubling of the new convention 's duration to 10 years . ) |
| 14 | Delegates were informed that an encouraging number of responses had already been received to the search for sponsoring organisations , and there was every prospect that the chair would be established in 1992 . |
| 15 | When Tess arrived home the following afternoon a letter had already been received by her mother . |
| 16 | This way needed no search : the substance later known as allopurinol had already been synthesized by Hitchings and his colleagues , and it inhibited the enzyme xanthine oxidase ( which converts xanthine to uric acid and mercaptopurine to thio-uric acid ) . |
| 17 | At one of these city assemblies Mortimer delivered an address which is thought to have been aimed primarily at Edward 's episcopal supporters — Melton , Reynolds , Hethe and others — who were cowed into swearing before the massed Londoners ( whose violence had already been demonstrated against Stapledon ) to uphold the queen 's cause and the liberties of London : thirteen bishops , some notable abbots and two dozen other clergy took the oath that day . |
| 18 | ( In reality this had already been demonstrated by the JustText composition program but not released . ) |
| 19 | The reason this cumbersome arrangement was used was because the simple crank had already been patented in 1780 . |
| 20 | Chloroform had already been employed by Dr James Simpson , Professor of obstetrics at the University of Glasgow ; ether had first been used in 1846 by Dr Robert Liston for an operation at University College Hospital in London . |
| 21 | Credits of $1,000 million had already been granted in December 1990 . |
| 22 | On Jan. 17 , 1991 , Heseltine announced the local government finance arrangements for 1991/92 , which provided for over £4,250 million more in extra support to local government than had already been granted in July 1990 for 1990-91 [ see p. 37623 ] In the budget , presented on March 19 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont , a " substantial switch was proposed from local to central taxation , amounting to £4,250 million in 1991/92 , and the reducing net yield of local taxation to around £7,000 million [ see p. 38110 ] . |
| 23 | The importance of productivity had already been noted in an E.E.C . |
| 24 | Asquith J stated that the defence of volenti was applicable where the plaintiff came to a situation where the danger had already been created by the defendant 's negligence . |
| 25 | As a movement in the same direction the German foreign office set up a legal and commercial department in 1885 and the British one acquired a legal adviser in 1893 ( a post of Legal Assistant Under-Secretary had already been created in 1876 ) . |
| 26 | Moreover , the fact that the embassy had already been delayed in Dover for a fortnight had cost him 14,000 crowns even before these further disasters . |
| 27 | The warning came from the all party , defence select committee , whose Conservative chairman said the country 's defence capability had already been pared to the bone . |
| 28 | Mr David Gee , director designate of Friends of the Earth , said the bill had already been weakened by giving big concessions to industry , especially over freedom of information to the public and scope and timetable of the new controls over pollution . |
| 29 | The National Covenant had already been weakened by Chamoun 's decision to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine , under which the United States promised to use its forces to help any nation which requested assistance against aggressors controlled by ‘ international communism ’ . |
| 30 | I think his system had already been weakened by some other compound , anyway . ’ |