Example sentences of "already [be] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " 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 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
6 | The polytechnic which has already been commissioned for significant consultancy work into the performance of roofs , will conduct the statistical analysis assessing life-span criteria across a full spectrum of roof systems . |
7 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
8 | When a module name is first entered into LIFESPAN , it is checked to ensure that the same name has not already been chosen for another module . |
9 | But the American plan promotes only steps that have already been taken for other reasons . |
10 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
11 | 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 ) . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
17 | 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 ) . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Sprinkler bans are already being planned for many areas but not for Surrey . |
20 | Britain and Hong Kong claim they are eager for international agencies to monitor the resettlement of the illegal migrants , just as is already being done for those boat people who have returned voluntarily . |
21 | 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 . |