Example sentences of "[noun pl] have already [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Councillor Michael Snelling said planners had already been generous allowing the couple to build a bigger home on the site . |
| 3 | Too many pages had already been unturned — it was too late now . |
| 4 | It 's loud , certainly , but by the time the third track , ‘ Earth Mofo ’ , kicks into gear the pattern of stodgy , leaden and downright lazy arrangements has already been well-established . |
| 5 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But theorists have already been busy for the past few years working on schemes that incorporate a third force , the strong nuclear force , with electroweak theory . |
| 9 | A number of SCOTVEC modules have already been used to certificate European exchanges and work placements ( see article on page 4 ) . |
| 10 | These trends have already been apparent in the formulation of the terms for EMU and political union . |