Example sentences of "[vb past] already been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 3 | By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months . |
| 4 | Well , to be strictly truthful , camp had already been made for us by some hi-tech realtors . |
| 5 | A method had already been developed for salvaging institutions and legacies which were defective : the principle plus nuncupatum minus scriptum was applied . |
| 6 | It is also possible that seasonal meeting places had already been determined for the exchange of goods and people as well as social intercourse . |
| 7 | Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house . |
| 8 | Many shrewd judges , both on the veldt and in England , though that the Springbok selectors were taking a massive gamble with Griffin , who had already been called for throwing in his own country , especially as unfair bowling had lately become a major issue . |
| 9 | Arróspide [ see also p. 34182 ] was at the time in a Paris prison awaiting trial for offences committed in France , and his extradition had already been sought for the 1987 supermarket bombing in Barcelona [ for which see p. 35851 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( But in the 1930s , while a teacher of anatomy at the University of Birmingham and investigating hormonal influences in reproduction , he had already been reproved for obscenity by the Archbishop of Canterbury — the executive head of the Anglican Church — over his first book , The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes . ) |
| 12 | Nevertheless , estimates had already been obtained for the provision of a nurses ' recreation room and tennis courts for the nursing staff . |
| 13 | Thus , when Ludendorff arrived at his new headquarters at Marienburg , orders had already been given for the mass of the Eighth Army to form a half-moon facing southeast , toward the centre of which' Samsonov , urged on by telegrams from Jilinski , was now marching his weary men . |
| 14 | Contracts had already been given for the erection of grandstands and a tented village . |
| 15 | By the time the conference was held in September approval had already been given for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at six colleges and polytechnics in England , Ulster Polytechnic and Dunfermline College of Physical Education . |
| 16 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 17 | Bill Craig had already been sacked for criticizing O'Neill 's televised plea to the province . |
| 18 | When she hinted to Dona Marguerita that she was sometimes bored and would like to get out of the house and see more of the country , the old lady was quick to point out how much had already been done for her . |
| 19 | ESRC funding enabled the research team to classify and analyse biographical material that had already been collected for the 1900-39 cohorts through record search and postal questionnaire for the 1940-67 cohorts . |
| 20 | The owner had already been convicted for cruelty — but had n't been banned from keeping sheep . |
| 21 | In the sitting room-cum-bedroom of their Darlinghurst first floor flat , the table had already been set for dinner . |
| 22 | Mr Dowson , who is due to be married in June , said equipment worth more than £1,000 had already been bought for the programme . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In July the Earls of Northampton , Oxford , Pembroke and Devon together with Sir Hugh Despenser , Sir Richard Talbot and Sir Richard Stafford took an army to the duchy and put Charles of Blois to flight at the battle of Morlaix on 30 September , while in October the king himself embarked for Brittany , aware that part of the duchy had already been regained for the Montfort cause . |
| 26 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 29 | Carpet manufacturing in Kilmarnock had already been established for over 150 years when the company as we know today was formed in 19088 . |
| 30 | However , the ground sought had already been promised for a schoolmaster 's residence . |