Example sentences of "already [been] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months . |
| 2 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Once operational , the existing scouring machine presently located in the dye house will be moved along-side its new partner , where foundation work has already been completed for this major operation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But the American plan promotes only steps that have already been taken for other reasons . |
| 12 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Sale terms are still being thrashed out with the buyers but heads of agreement have already been signed for all three . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 18 | Competitive tendering ( see also Chapter 3 , page 47 ) has already been introduced for many ancillary services ( eg cleaning , catering ) and has reduced costs , although some health authorities have found that quality of service has also suffered . |
| 19 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |