Example sentences of "[verb] already been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	Over such a period , as has already been apparent with Polaris , if we had only had three , we should not have been able to maintain that programme .
2	At the auction last year the buyers were the dealers Konrad Bernheimer , ( who has already been involved in the return of other important furniture to the Prussian palaces ) , and Achim Neuse .
3	COSLA has already been involved in a re-assessment of the figures which it strongly disputed .
4	The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called .
5	The Consorzio Venezia Nuova has already been active for some time in redesigning the network of channels in the lagoon , consolidating the barene ( patches of mud flat just above the surface of the water ) and other similar measures .
6	‘ The experience of most people has already been bad in planning terms , ’ he said .
7	Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 .
8	He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room .
9	Japan had already been victorious in two major wars , against China in 1894–5 and Russia in 1904–5 ; she was a world power and possessor of colonies .
10	This process had already been invaluable to industry and proved to be so for penicillin .
11	Wilson hoped that since the private sector had already been successful in developing the port and cross-harbour tunnels , that many local and international developers would be keen to co-operate with the government in these projects .
12	He pointed out , however , that since Mr Brown had already ‘ gone public ’ , the council had already been successful in obtaining a court decree against him .
13	Parma became renowned for its elegance during the reign of Maria Luigia , Napoleon 's second wife , daughter of the Emperor of Austria and mother of the King of Rome , when she was Duchess of Parma , Piacenza and Guastalla ; although it had already been famous under the Farnese and the Bourbons .
14	The VNODD as well as the communists had already been involved in fomenting strikes but on the whole they do not seem to have attached themselves to any cause other than nationalism and , while they were particularly active in attempting to subvert the army , when they finally and out of desperation , having been heavily penetrated by the Sûreté , attempted to begin their armed struggle , many of the Vietnamese riflemen in the battalion , which was induced to mutiny , rallied instead to their French officers .
15	the Basic Studies Coordinator for Years land 2 , who had already been involved in cataloguing and layout of the library ;
16	He had already been involved in taking prisoners to the mountains and told me that he would now have to think of a way to get Eric there too .
17	In marked contrast to Solihull , where , a similar period after its launch by the LEA , less than half of the teachers could claim even to have seen the scheme booklet ( Turner and Clift , op. cit. ) , in Oxfordshire , by the end of 1984 four-fifths of teachers had already been involved in a whole-school review .
18	Another view was that six-monthly reports should only be required in relation to those firms ( regardless of size ) that had already been late in delivering their annual reports .
19	Considering Dicke 's thesis as well as van de Kamer 's publication in 1952 it is quite clear that when Dicke went to Utrecht to perform his classic dietary fat absorption experiments , he had already been convinced for years that wheat , rye , and oat meal products were the offending agents in the cause of coeliac disease .
20	No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact .
21	They had already been unlucky with just five minutes remaining in normal time , when Neil Webb 's shot cannoned back off the foot of the post .
22	They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS .
23	They had already been alone in the house for 24 hours .
24	By the mid-1950s only two other appliances had reached majority owner ship : vacuum cleaners ( which had already been well-established in the 1930s ) and televisions ( which , though new , proved the most rapid growth area , approaching 50 per cent ownership levels among consumers by 1957 ) .
25	The Observer had already been excited about it in its preview the weekend before .
26	Sandys , when Minister of Supply , had already been instrumental in deciding to develop Blue Streak as the replacement for the V-bombers , and so in 1957 he saw no requirement for either Skybolt or Polaris .
27	It was from the vantage point of the Master 's Lodge , a family place , that Thomson , cheerful and generous , made his most distinctive contribution to university affairs , although he had already been active since the 1930s in adult education , as both a part-time tutor and a committee member , and from 1950 to 1958 he had sat on the council of the senate .
28	Parts of Maida Vale and Bayswater have already been subject to controls .
29	As an importer , you are secure in the knowledge that the goods for which you are paying have already been despatched/ As an exporter , you retain control of the goods until the importer has paid or agreed to pay .
30	Our finding of highly similar introns in fungi and algae is consistent with the idea that introns have already been present in the bacterial ancestors of present day mitochondria and evolved concomitantly with the organells .

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