Example sentences of "already [been] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this happens , the assumptions which developed during the 50s and 60s of the young person as an independent , affluent wage earner and consumer , assumptions which have already been challenged by the changes I have described here , will have to be finally cast aside . |
| 2 | ( What would have happened at Verdun had Renault remained out of business can readily be deduced from what has already been said about the Voie Sacrée . ) |
| 3 | He said : ‘ Enough has already been said about the use of weapons in this area . ’ |
| 4 | Erm much has already been said about the role of P P Gs and the advice they contain . |
| 5 | Indeed , it has already been said in the pages of Early music that ‘ few [ English ] people realize that on almost every day of the school term 35 professional and semi-professional choirs sing for at least 45 minutes in our cathedrals and chapels in the very tightest form of musical discipline ’ . |
| 6 | The main mass and requiem mass had already been said in the RC Church in Notting Hill . |
| 7 | Some of the work for a museum catalogue may have already been done before the acquisition of a picture . |
| 8 | Your employer must give you a written statement when making a redundancy payment , showing how the amount is calculated , unless the amount of payment has already been fixed by the decision of an industrial tribunal . |
| 9 | Some caution has already been expressed about the extent to which the new GCSE examinations will reach less able children previously excluded from the Certificate of Secondary Education . |
| 10 | Having already been struck by the intensity and depth of colour of Aquacryl , I turned this to my advantage . |
| 11 | He said most ticket-holders had already been warned of the cancellation and would be given a full refund . |
| 12 | Research is being carried out in Zambezi where 14,000 sq kilometres of land has already been cleared of the fly . |
| 13 | It may be imagined that the village schoolteachers could establish cultural ties between party and peasant , but some of the weaknesses of these agents have already been revealed in the Smolensk guberniia . |
| 14 | If , however , the market is able to absorb information about the risks attached to future cash flows from other sources , for example the work of financial analysts , then the role of qualification is marginalised to that of informing unsophisticated investors about risks , the knowledge of which has , unbeknown to them , already been built into the pricing of their securities , but which might possibly cause them to consider whether they should diversify their portfolio or change its composition . |
| 15 | But by that time a grand station had already been built in the centre of Alexandria . |
| 16 | His entire spindlewinter 's supply of candles had already been strewn on the floor , mixed with his store of kindling wood . |
| 17 | Inflammatory proclamations had already been pasted on the cathedral in Riga . |
| 18 | Thus , when Ludendorff arrived at his new headquarters at Marienburg , orders had already been given for the mass of the Eighth Army to form a half-moon facing southeast , toward the centre of which' Samsonov , urged on by telegrams from Jilinski , was now marching his weary men . |
| 19 | Contracts had already been given for the erection of grandstands and a tented village . |
| 20 | ‘ PW felt , rightly , that much of the information had already been given to the Bank … |
| 21 | One important signal had already been given with the reversal of the ‘ Tiananmen Incident ’ verdict . |
| 22 | An example has already been given in the anecdote of Charles II on page 95 . |
| 23 | The reason why ( 6 ) is perceived as if it was assignment is that the indefinitizing effect of the determiner means that the hearer is granted no more about the entity in post-copular position than : ( a ) The properties denoted by the noun used ; ( b ) The fact that it is an entity ; but the latter fact has already been given by the subject noun phrase ; hence the effect , with such a determiner , amounts to the same thing , in practice ( but not in terms of intensional pattern ) , as simple assignment . |
| 24 | This has already been seen in the discussion of example [ 13 ] above . |
| 25 | Nor was this a peculiarly Frankish problem : similar conflict had already been seen in the hostility between Sigistrix and Sigismund 's second wife , in the kingdom of the Burgundians . |
| 26 | This partial detachment from natural appearances , which has already been seen in the landscapes of Picasso and Braque of 1908 , is one of the factors that distinguish most clearly their approach from that of Cézanne and other nineteenth-century artists , and even from the Fauves , whose vision , with the occasional exception of Matisse , despite the liberties they took with their subjects , was still conditioned by their instantaneous reactions to their surroundings . |
| 27 | ‘ Tolstikov was an unknown as far as last year 's race was concerned , yet he went off and won it , ’ said Brace , who has already been selected for the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 28 | Gracie and Daisy had already been broken to the plough while still down in Sleightholmedale and had been trained to plough together , Gracie walking in the furrow and Daisy being the land horse . |
| 29 | If the quarantine regulations had already been broken by the landing of the escape pod , so the opposing argument would run , then surely it would be a second and far more serious breach to despatch a lifeboat on a rescue mission , especially since the size of such a vehicle increased the risk of inhabitant contact a thousandfold . |
| 30 | This type of decentralized model had already been advocated in the USA by , among others , the influential ) . |