Example sentences of "already be [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months .
2 A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields .
3 Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them .
4 The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) .
5 They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags .
6 But the American plan promotes only steps that have already been taken for other reasons .
7 I suppose over here we were not too aware of his antics when he was playing in france but i suspect UEFA will take all of that into consideration ( he 's already been banned for 10 months ) .
8 Only half of Europe 's largest industrial groups possess an environmental strategy , despite 20 per cent having already been fined for environmental transgressions , according to a report by the international environmental consultancy BDA Deloitte & Touche .
9 By the time the Master himself arrived in London to be examined in August 1669 , he had already been suspended for two months past by the Chancellor of the Archbishop of York until the controversy could be settled .
10 Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years .
11 In 1947 when Frank had his insight the existence of muons had already been known for ten years and the existence of muonic atoms had also been predicted .
12 The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) .
13 These hoops can be jumped through quickly if all parties cooperate , but the point is that some potential candidates for the 1990 Edinburgh course will already be looking for possible courses early in 1989 .
14 Sprinkler bans are already being planned for many areas but not for Surrey .
15 However , since drivers ' wages are already being paid for full shifts , Dobbs ( 1979 ) argues that the extra costs of providing more off-peak buses on low demand routes is not very great .
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