Example sentences of "already [been] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmer Colin French , who 'd already been prosecuted five times , was given a suspended jail sentence and banned from keeping four species of farm animal for fifteen years . |
| 2 | Anyone looking at Community legal texts can not help being struck by the large quantity of them and , although the European Communities are still a relatively youthful organization , a lot of those texts have already been amended many times over . |
| 3 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 4 | The deportations have already been postponed several times under international pressure and Mr Hurd is the third Foreign Secretary to review a policy first outlined 15 months ago . |
| 5 | However , the conference , whose start had already been postponed several times [ see p. 38323 ] , only managed to complete its first session . |
| 6 | The referendum , first scheduled for November 1991 , had already been postponed several times [ see pp. 38227 ; 38424 ; 38565 ; 38663 ] . |
| 7 | The Law Society produced a paper on the subject in 1981 against the background of the difficulties mentioned above to which the attention of the Royal Commission on Legal Services had already been drawn five years previously . |
| 8 | ‘ A prisoner , who it was alleged had recently been refused Compassionate Home Leave to visit a dangerously ill relative , had already been allowed three visits over a period of three weeks . |
| 9 | He 'd apparently hit the central barrier and lost control , and has already been fined 250 pounds for driving without due care and attention . |
| 10 | He 's already been fined 250 pounds for driving without due care and attention . |
| 11 | He has already been booked four times this season and two more cautions will result in automatic suspension . |
| 12 | The possibility of claiming that you have been constructively dismissed has already been mentioned several times . |
| 13 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |