Example sentences of "already been [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ PW felt , rightly , that much of the information had already been given to the Bank … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Having lived in Walton for 29 years she has witnessed how much of the cliff has already been lost to the sea . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Currently concentrating on Sparc-based hardware , Lucid has an agreement with NCR Corp that will see its compiler technology and Energize ported onto the Intel 486 under Unix SVR4 and SCO Unix : compilers have already been ported to the IBM RIOS chip , and Lucid has its eye on Hewlett-Packard 's PA-RISC . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Several references have already been made to the support of ministers by civil servants . |
| 10 | Reference has already been made to the fact that most very old people are women . |
| 11 | Reference has , of course , already been made to the fetva given by Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi sanctioning the execution of Seyh Bedreddin In Mehmed I 's reign : with respect to the general question of the nature of in the early state , it is worth remarking that no clue is given as to why Burhaneddin was selected beyond the fact that " he was at the side of Sultan Mehmed " in Serez when Seyh Bedreddin was brought . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Fourthly , reference has already been made to the need for cooperation to be perceived as beneficial . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At the coronation , which took place in Moscow at the end of August 1856 , Levshin , the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs , quizzed gentry representatives from many parts of the empire on the question of emancipation and found sympathy for the idea only among the north-westerners whose feelings on the matter had already been communicated to the tsar . |
| 21 | The monk tells him that the money has already been returned to the wife . |
| 22 | DC Steven Millward said the haul included water colour paintings , valued at £300 , which had already been returned to the owner after a burglary at a Darlington antiques shop a year ago . |
| 23 | Rights to the Lynher river had already been sold to the Admiralty in 1890 for £800 , for the Tamar in 1899 for £1,000 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The 14 March 1988 order recorded that accounts had already been supplied to the plaintiffs and that those accounts had discharged the first defendant 's accounting obligations ‘ subject only to the plaintiffs ' rights under Ord. 43 , r. 5 of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 and their rights to require vouching of the said accounts . ’ |
| 26 | Unfortunately I had not realised that a stern rope had already been passed to the ship and an indignant shout from my crew on the after deck drew my attention to the long nylon rope which was now snaking dangerously round the bollards as we drew away . |
| 27 | Attention has already been drawn to the fact that a single harmonization proposal can take decades to come to fruition . |
| 28 | In terms of databases on hazardous wastes , attention has already been drawn to the waste disposal plans prepared by WRAs . |
| 29 | The largest , some 295,000 sq ft has already been let to the London Underwriting Centre . |
| 30 | On his instructions his luggage had already been carried to the Citron by the congaie . |