Example sentences of "long [been] [art] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having decided that the rude manners and customs of an outback community ‘ are rather produced by their situation than derived from their ancestors ’ , he examines first how they regulated themselves traditionally ; then , the introduction and enforcement of the country 's general body of legislation — for instance , theft of cattle from drovers had long been a problem in the Highlands ; now their passage was growing safer . |
| 2 | His mother the Lady Morathi had long been a devotee of the cult . |
| 3 | Thus , for example , Edessa , now Urfa in Turkey , had long been a centre of the twin cult , worshipping the pair under the names of Momim and Aziz . |
| 4 | They 've long been a part of the river 's past . |
| 5 | The American Supreme Court has long been a proponent of the rule : |
| 6 | THE seeds of popular revolt that appear to be taking root across Romania were sown last Thursday in the north-western town of Timisoara when President Nicolae Ceausescu 's security forces moved to evict the Protestant pastor , Laszlo Tokes , who has long been a thorn in the side of the regime . |
| 7 | I have long been a professor in the University Of Life . |
| 8 | Mrs Mitterrand has long been a defender of the Kurdish cause and last July toured the area where the weekend air raids took place . |
| 9 | Advances in medical knowledge might lead to the conclusion that some are simply too dangerous : there has long been a debate about the status of boxing , with increasing knowledge of the risks of brain damage to boxers . |
| 10 | The tire has long been a focus for the telling of stories , and for the stimulation of inner vision . |
| 11 | Confiscating savings has long been a demand of the most reactionary groups who think that all private business is conducted by ‘ the mafia ’ , which the confiscation is supposed to hurt ( actually , the most criminalised businesses hold much of their savings in dollars and gold ) . |
| 12 | Road traffic had long been a matter for the police because of the very great concern over road accidents . |
| 13 | The ‘ Victorian Age ’ has long been a synonym for a harsh and repressive sexual puritanism . |
| 14 | The fells above Coniston have long been a source of the widely used Westmorland slate ( see Borrowdale ) , but the mountain known as Coniston Old Man and its associated fells are equally interesting as an area of copper-mining activity , and one nearby location is known as Coppermines Valley . |
| 15 | It has long been an axiom of the Labour Party that MacDonald 's actions in 1931 marked him as a traitor to the cause . |
| 16 | The chancellor who had long been an admirer of the queen , was affected not for the first time by her beauty and appeal — attributes which , it seemed to him , were in no way impaired by adversity . |
| 17 | Mint sauce has long been an ingredient of the English Sunday lunch of lamb with the season 's new green peas and new potatoes . |
| 18 | In both French and British space programmes , keeping up with — or at least not falling further behind — the USA and USSR space efforts has long been the name of the game . |
| 19 | Or might the turmoil of schemes and unemployment be preparing youth more thoroughly ( as has long been the case in the USA ) for better adaptation to eventual permanent employment ? |
| 20 | " The custom of disguising reality so that it appeared to be perfect " had long been the tactic of the Franco regime . |
| 21 | ‘ To save from the wreck of time and the busy hand of man ( ‘ man out of his place ’ ) the best specimens of this mountain architecture , by a series of representations , on a scale adequate to their beauty and importance , has long been the wish of the writer , who , for such a purpose , has already proposed to publish |
| 22 | It has for long been the task of the Secretary of State for the Home Department either in the exercise of the prerogative of mercy or more recently on a statutory basis to determine in the case of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment , how much of that sentence should be served . |