Example sentences of "long [been] [art] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had long been a believer in voluntary euthanasia , and my mother 's experience strengthened it ; for to me what matters most is not the length of a person 's life but its quality , and that death , when it comes , should have dignity . |
| 2 | Although party politics , particularly in urban areas , has long been a feature of local government , its extension after 1974 — mainly a product of the larger authority areas created by reorganization — has helped to transform the operating style of many authorities . |
| 3 | Upper Ribblesdale has long been a magnet for experienced cavers , potholers and geologists . |
| 4 | There has long been a tradition of skilled furniture-making in the island , making copies of British and French pieces . |
| 5 | It had long been a tradition for Roman emperors to claim descent from the gods , and on that basis to claim godhood for themselves as well . |
| 6 | With the uncertainty about oil prices and the expense of both gas and electricity , many people are opting for wood-burning stoves These have long been a favourite in Northern Europe and America , and they can be amazingly efficient in heating most of the house , quite apart from being decorative . |
| 7 | Making money out of the misfortune of others has long been a speciality of Swiss banks . |
| 8 | Prostitution , drunkenness , vagrancy and other ‘ unrespectable ’ manifestations of urban popular culture had long been a headache for local borough councils . |
| 9 | The effects of observers ' values and predispositions on their perceptions , descriptions , and analyses of ethnographic reality is , of course , an issue that has long been a matter of explicit concern to anthropologists . |
| 10 | The bureaucratization of the party has long been a source of political conflict within communist states . |
| 11 | All told , the upwelling of the cold waters of the south-eastern Pacific has long been a source of considerable economic importance . |
| 12 | The automatic recognition of human speech has long been the subject of science-fiction fantasy and ( more recently ) the subject of extensive scientific investigation . |
| 13 | Of course , the UK has long been the home of large companies exploiting ‘ primary products ’ ( plantation crops , furs , timber and minerals ) in different parts of the Commonwealth and the world . |
| 14 | CITY UNDER SIEGE London has long been the centre of European finance , but the slide in business now could just be the start of a lasting loss of market share . |
| 15 | Dietary therapy has long been the cornerstone of diabetic management . |
| 16 | The sapphire waters of the coast have long been the domain of fierce sea-going tribes who were such a formidable barrier to the early European spice traders that the mountainous backbone of the island remained unexplored until the turn of this century . |
| 17 | The duty to carry out certain services is imposed on local authorities and as such services are of a nature affecting the whole of the country , for example , the police , or trunk roads , it has long been the practice for Central Government to assist the local authority financially . |
| 18 | It has long been the view of central government that these forecasts are much more accurate if they are made at a local rather than at a national level ( Hammond , 1984 ) . |