Example sentences of "has already been [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having lived in Walton for 29 years she has witnessed how much of the cliff has already been lost to the sea . |
| 2 | The largest group are patients with chronic schizophrenia , a group which has already been exposed to the private sector through a move to community care . |
| 3 | Reference has already been made to the heavy penalties imposed for waste , assart and purpresture , and in respect of agistment , escapes and the lawing of dogs . |
| 4 | Earlier in this chapter , reference has already been made to the decline in WEA activity in Bedfordshire and by the end of the war there were fewer classes in the county than had existed in 1935 and most of these were concentrated in the urban areas such as Bedford , Dunstable , Leighton Buzzard and Luton . |
| 5 | Reference has already been made to the intercropping of trees with cereals , legumes , etc. in many African agricultural systems ( section 4.4.1 ) to increase food production ad as a means of soil conservation , and to the planting of trees ( section 7.2.3 ) to combat erosion and desertification . |
| 6 | Reference has already been made to the opportunities now available to companies to establish agencies , branches or subsidiaries in other member states , and to conduct business activities in other member states through intermediaries without establishing a local presence . |
| 7 | Reference has already been made to the fact that most very old people are women . |
| 8 | Fourthly , reference has already been made to the need for cooperation to be perceived as beneficial . |
| 9 | Reference has already been made to the examination by the Sumner Committee of the 1905 Hague Convention , and the reasoning which led to the Committee 's recommendation that the United Kingdom should not accede to that Convention but proceed rather by way of bilateral treaties . |
| 10 | Reference has already been made to the way in which developments in medicine began , in the late nineteenth century , to render inadequate the traditional poor law approach to the care of the sick . |
| 11 | Reference has already been made to the preparedness of the staff at the Delphi Centre to use overt forms of control both in terms of language and physical contact . |
| 12 | Reference has already been made to the two former colleges of education within the Principality . |
| 13 | Reference has already been made to the alarming evidence obtained by United Nations investigators in Iraq . |
| 14 | Is it not the case that the decision to split adult education between a further education funding council and local education authorities is a recipe for disaster for an important sector of education , which has already been cut to the bone as a consequence of the Government 's failed policies ? |
| 15 | The largest , some 295,000 sq ft has already been let to the London Underwriting Centre . |
| 16 | The largest of its kind in the west , a substantial part of the collection assembled by Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert has already been donated to the museum and the rest is promised . |
| 17 | The torch has already been put to the kindling . ’ |
| 18 | In terms of databases on hazardous wastes , attention has already been drawn to the waste disposal plans prepared by WRAs . |
| 19 | Attention has already been drawn to the fact that a single harmonization proposal can take decades to come to fruition . |
| 20 | The monk tells him that the money has already been returned to the wife . |