Example sentences of "already be [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets .
2 ‘ You have already been given a full briefing on the facts , ’ said the President .
3 As to my sign , you 've already been given an important clue .
4 ( A controversial Public Order Ordinance , controlling public meetings and demonstrations , had , however , already been withdrawn the previous month from the list of protected legislation . )
5 He says they 've already been allowed a judicial review over the ban on deer hunting by Somerset Council and we 've requested one in the case of Hampshire .
6 More particularly , and because Vietnam had already been accorded the key position in Southeast Asia , ‘ Soviet domination of the potential power of Eurasia , whether achieved by armed aggression or by political and subversive means , would be strategically and politically unacceptable to the US ’ .
7 This criticism is forcefully made by Connolly , in the course of a discussion of structuralist theories , of which he takes Althusser s to be a prime example : One of the two complaints aired in this passage has already been discussed the incredulous observation that we can not view people as role-bearers who lead complicated lives in modern industrial societies and simultaneously regard them as determined .
8 Four political parties had already been allocated an exact number of seats in the Little Hural from party preferences returned during the July elections [ see table below ] .
9 At any point of the communication process , there will have already been established a certain linguistic and non-linguistic environment .
10 The bulk of the textile manufacturers in northern France at the same period were similarly children of what could already be considered the middle strata ; the bulk of the mid-nineteenth-century Nottingham hosiery manufacturers had similar origins , two-thirds of them actually coming from the hosiery trade .
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