Example sentences of "[noun sg] have already been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an effort to raise $40m , a bill to issue a commemorative coin has already been passed by the House of Representatives and will now be heard by the US Senate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I seem to remember that excuse has already been used by the man who got the human race thrown out of Eden . ’ |
| 4 | The need for formal assessment has already been conceded by teachers . |
| 5 | The union ban has already been criticised by the United Nations as an infringement of human rights . |
| 6 | The union ban has already been criticised by the United Nations as an infringement of human rights . |
| 7 | This approach with Intelligent HQ has already been pioneered by Akai . |
| 8 | The Truman Administration had already been forced by Congress to end Lend-Lease ; many of the joint boards set up to co-ordinate the Anglo-American war effort were summarily dismantled ; and , although the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development Trust survived , the flow of technical information , on which Britain was depending to set up her own atomic establishments , began to dry up . |
| 9 | The logic of linking auditing and accounting had already been accepted by the Secretary of State as a feature of the experience needed to qualify as an auditor under the Companies Act 1989 . |
| 10 | The proposal has already been backed by the United States and France , and is due to be debated by the members of the Paris Club , the group of 16 creditor governments , in the near future . |
| 11 | Some development work has already been done by pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of bottles and caps , and satisfactory child resistant containers are expected to be available for use with liquid medicines in the near future . |
| 12 | As a book on a single subject , there is a good chance that the need for description will be reduced by extensive illustration , while a favourable judgement on the work has already been implied by the choice of the subject for a monograph . |
| 13 | The Plan has already been approved by the state environment authorities and is likely to be approved shortly by the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington . |
| 14 | The helpline has already been used by a number of worried officers . |
| 15 | The major part of this question has already been answered by the previous discussion of the pervasive quality of domesticity in relation to the female characters in the book . |
| 16 | The guest turns out to be Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly , " a very great doctor " , who in a role half-priestly and half-analytical reconciles Edward and Lavinia even though their marriage has already been described by him as that of |
| 17 | ‘ I am very pleased indeed that a quantity of equipment has already been sent by the Cheshire Fire Brigade to the fire department in St Petersburg and that the county fire officer is pursuing the possibility of extending the scheme with technical help . |
| 18 | The poll tax proposal had already been passed by the government 's overwhelming majority in the Commons . |
| 19 | Coffee was a nauseous substitute concocted from acorns ; bread had already been rationed by the beginning of 1915 to about 2 Ibs a week , and goodness knows what was added to the flour to make it so grey and gritty ! |
| 20 | If this value of fv is substituted in the Doolittle expression for viscosity we find An equation of this type had already been suggested by Williams , Landel & Ferry as an empirical way of combining data derived at different temperatures into one master curve . |
| 21 | I believe that she did so because a private notice question had already been accepted by Mr. Speaker . |
| 22 | The difference in height between the two groups with means standardised to the same age distribution has already been calculated by analysis of covariance which controls for age ( table II ) . |
| 23 | Moreover ( and this point has already been appreciated by alert education advisers ) in-service training within the school does not require extra staff , extra equipment or extra classroom space ; it makes use of what is immediately and necessarily available . |
| 24 | The site has already been examined by planners from Stroud District Council , one of the most environmentally conscious authorities in the country . |
| 25 | Concern about the loophole has already been expressed by politicians and financial experts in the past . |
| 26 | France went to war with less than 150 planes , and Germany few more ; nevertheless , after the first month the Commandant 's opinion had already been refuted by Galliéni 's use of aircraft to spy out von Kluck 's classic mistake on the Marne . |
| 27 | Asquith J stated that the defence of volenti was applicable where the plaintiff came to a situation where the danger had already been created by the defendant 's negligence . |
| 28 | Staff in the travel business have already been cut by 15 per cent . |
| 29 | Rogan is a respected pop writer — he wrote a good book about Wham ! and probably the best analysis of band managers ever written — but his latest tome has already been denounced by Morrissey . |
| 30 | But the stroke as accentual sign had already been used by older composers , among them Bach , Handel and Telemann . |