Example sentences of "already been [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In the Soviet Union a draft law allowing all citizens to obtain a passport quickly had already been given a first reading , and the Soviet delegate estimated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 Soviet citizens could decide to emigrate " in the first two to three years " . ) |
| 2 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 3 | ‘ You have already been given a full briefing on the facts , ’ said the President . |
| 4 | In the midst of the proceedings , when they have already been given the Ten Commandments and much besides , and Moses is on the summit of Sinai receiving more torah to relay to them , they rebel . |
| 5 | As to my sign , you 've already been given an important clue . |
| 6 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 7 | Cadfael had already been considering the same question , and could only conclude that the abbot had indeed total faith that the Gospels would justify Shrewsbury in possession of its saint . |
| 8 | We have already been using a few special words , and as we shall be using several more , let's define the meaning of some words and phrases connected with pruning . |
| 9 | Patients randomised to the tablet groups were advised to continue their pre-trial diets — unless they had already been taking a high fibre diet — in which case they were encouraged to reduce their fibre intake during the trial . |
| 10 | ( A controversial Public Order Ordinance , controlling public meetings and demonstrations , had , however , already been withdrawn the previous month from the list of protected legislation . ) |
| 11 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 12 | He says they 've already been allowed a judicial review over the ban on deer hunting by Somerset Council and we 've requested one in the case of Hampshire . |
| 13 | More particularly , and because Vietnam had already been accorded the key position in Southeast Asia , ‘ Soviet domination of the potential power of Eurasia , whether achieved by armed aggression or by political and subversive means , would be strategically and politically unacceptable to the US ’ . |
| 14 | This criticism is forcefully made by Connolly , in the course of a discussion of structuralist theories , of which he takes Althusser s to be a prime example : One of the two complaints aired in this passage has already been discussed the incredulous observation that we can not view people as role-bearers who lead complicated lives in modern industrial societies and simultaneously regard them as determined . |
| 15 | He was 44 years old and he had already been acclaimed the First Great American painter . |
| 16 | Four political parties had already been allocated an exact number of seats in the Little Hural from party preferences returned during the July elections [ see table below ] . |
| 17 | At any point of the communication process , there will have already been established a certain linguistic and non-linguistic environment . |