The phrase "already been acquired" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something has been obtained or secured prior to the current moment or context.
Example: "The necessary resources have already been acquired to complete the project on time."
Alternatives: "previously obtained" or "already secured".
But there's already a plethora of critical writing about, for instance, Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash," which opened the festival on Thursdsay night (and has already been acquired by Sony).
It has been several years since officials at the Modern began planning the move, to a site that had already been acquired as storehouse space for the museum's ever-expanding collection.
The children in question had chronic intestinal disease, and they also had a history of normal behavioural development followed by a loss of behavioural skills that had already been acquired.
Philippa Wilson, one of the contributors to the book, reminds us that at least 30 of 195 pictures reproduced in Claude's sketchbook, the "Liber veritatis," had already been acquired by British collectors when the French Revolution broke out in 1789.
An early challenge at one firm was to find a source of some data, which, it turned out, had already been acquired by another division.One of the first firms to test the @Work model was InnoCentive's mother ship, Eli Lilly.
I'm not a big fan of writing negatively about a festival screening—I'd rather give films, even ones I think little of, their best shot at a theatrical release in the hope of widening the discussion later but this film has already been acquired for U.S. distribution, and is being praised so preponderantly that I'm sure a little leavening from me won't hurt it.
Jessica Reif Cohen, a media analyst for Merrill Lynch, said the ruling helped companies that have already been acquiring duopolies.
Meanwhile, big agribusiness companies have already been acquiring huge swaths of land through long-term leases of up to 50 years.
Ethiopia, Sudan, Madagascar and Cambodia have been targeted and a total area the size of Spain may already have been acquired.
In the former case, the updating of many thousands of sequences, whose BLAST results have been acquired already, is a matter of a few hours on an ordinary desktop computer and can be easily performed on a weekly basis.
Given that these data speak to the proposed mechanism, and the images already seem to have been acquired, quantitative comparisons of mutant and wild type (at comparable stages of cytokinesis) should be made.
