Example sentences of "have long been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , recent developments suggest that this ‘ Chinese wall ’ will be breached , and this suspicion has long been voiced by many poorer people . |
| 2 | It has long been argued by feminist critics that ‘ community care ’ is merely a euphemism for care by the family — which in turn means care by women . |
| 3 | It has long been argued by some accounting theorists that business accounts should also include an opportunity cost of capital in the income statement . |
| 4 | and ‘ beyond some point that has long been surpassed in crowded industrial societies , conditions of use tend to deteriorate as use becomes more widespread ’ ( pp. 2–3 ) . |
| 5 | The pacta tertiis rule ( which protects non-parties to a treaty from having the treaty imposed upon them ) has long been accepted in international law . |
| 6 | An underlying hormonal element has long been suspected in many cases of malignant melanoma . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly much of Lewkenor 's commercial activities verged on the illegal , but few of the Sussex coastal gentry were probably uninvolved in the piracy and smuggling which flourished in the troubled international scene and which , in the guise of ‘ sea-dogs ’ , has long been acknowledged as one of the great Elizabethan attributes . |
| 8 | It has long been stated on these pages , that the relationship between GIR and average putts on GIR gives the best ( but not perfect ) indication of who is having problems with the putter . |
| 9 | Members of the Aetherius Society — who think that Earth has long been visited by benevolent travellers from outer space — believe that Ben Macdhui houses an underground dome-shaped auditorium visited by aliens . |
| 10 | When FDA clearance comes through the final product in a portfolio of basic food ingredients will be in place — promising the transformation of what has long been regarded as one of Britain 's most boring businesses into a world beater . |
| 11 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |
| 12 | Simon Robson has long been regarded as first eleven material , while Stedman has bowled with some success in his slower mode . |
| 13 | Scientists can readily account for physical phenomena such as the tides , but the Moon 's sway over human and animal behaviour has long been recognised without any satisfactory explanation . |
| 14 | It is unlikely that any report in the UK would be so brutally honest , but it accurately describes our situation , except that the inadequate nature of our provision for many students has long been recognised by many educators , and only becomes important to others through economic necessity . |
| 15 | On the political campaigns for which the NUS has long been criticised by Conservative MPs , the charter suggests that associations and the union should be allowed to lobby on issues which affect students . |
| 16 | On the political campaigns for which the NUS has long been criticised by Conservative MPs , the charter suggests that associations and the union should be allowed to lobby on issues which affect students . |
| 17 | It has long been established in American universities ; hence the acute consciousness of period , and the rapidity with which , in the state-of-the-art graduate schools and research establishments , critical approaches have followed one another : New Critical , structuralist , poststructuralist , deconstructionist , feminist , Marxist , New Historicist , dialogic . |
| 18 | This view has long been linked with those who have argued that the company should not be specially regulated by the state since it owed its existence to nothing more than a contract between individual property owners . |
| 19 | As Westminster aide to the party leader , Mr Durkan has long been tipped for higher offices . |
| 20 | Kanamycin is included in the guidelines , but this has long been superseded by other aminoglycosides . |
| 21 | But it has long been known from careful palaeontological studies that even in the thick development in the Cotswolds , there is evidence of two major breaks and a period of folding in what otherwise was a very peaceful period in British geological history . |
| 22 | Igor Markevitch 's recording of Le Sacre du printemps has long been cherished as one of the really stunning accounts on disc . |
| 23 | Green belts have been the major instrument of planning in fringe areas , having long been advocated by leading planning theorists such as Unwin and Howard . |
| 24 | The national church organization had long been accepted in central Europe : bishops were the crown 's natural advisers , the crown 's civil servants . |
| 25 | Sandro Calvani , head of UNDCP 's Bolivian operations , defends his group 's activities , pointing out that his organisation started relief work in an area that had long been shunned by most other international agencies as too dangerous . |
| 26 | While advertising had long been favoured by British industry , public relations was hardly used until the beginning of the 1950s . |
| 27 | Assam , in common with other north-eastern states , had long been troubled by secessionist groups . |
| 28 | The second strand , the Bacon and Eltis thesis , took up a theme which had long been forgotten by all but Marxist economists , the distinction between ‘ productive ’ and ‘ unproductive ’ labour . |
| 29 | The advantages of non-custodial penalties had long been propagated by penal reformers of a progressive liberal disposition , and had been the subject of two previous reviews by the Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders . |
| 30 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |