Example sentences of "[noun] have long [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The front runner has long seemed to be head injury , in which a microdialysis probe might readily accompany a pressure monitor and provide a guide to metabolic state . |
| 2 | British Rail has long argued that most passengers travelling to and from King 's Cross will do so by public transport . |
| 3 | ‘ Science has finally confirmed what many a mere male has long suspected — that the troubles of the world are women 's fault , and if there were fewer of them , things would get on a whole lot better . |
| 4 | I had acquired his confidence , which I believe I still retain , but for a number of reasons which were quasi-political we drifted apart towards the end of his second premiership , and although we have remained on friendly terms , the intimacy has long vanished . |
| 5 | But this last is precisely what Mr Lawson has long wanted to do and the Prime Minister absolutely forbidden . |
| 6 | Due to its flat landscape , Norfolk has long had a reputation for its fantastic light quality , a phenomenon that has been captured to great effect by many painters . |
| 7 | Oxford Polytechnic 's Modular Course has long accepted this conclusion . |
| 8 | The academic literature has long advocated the use of DCF evaluations . |
| 9 | The industrial relations literature has long noted that high levels of membership are ‘ predominantly sustained by informal group pressures from workmates ’ ( Brown and Wadhwani , 1990 , p. 14 ) . |
| 10 | on the eve of their wedding her wedding veil is rent by an intruder , who Rochester assures her is a servant Grace Poole but who is the next day revealed to be his mad Creole wife Bertha , confined to the upper regions of the hall for years , whose unseen presence has long disturbed Jane . |
| 11 | Mary Kelly has long contested , with cerebral acerbity , current tropes of femininity , from handbags to nappies ; she too , has deeply influenced the present generation of women artists . |
| 12 | Rugby has long prided itself on its image as a players ' game and any ‘ play to entertain ’ push could only accelerate the drift towards professionalism . |
| 13 | The finance ministry has long acted to prevent dividends slipping any lower by setting a rule barring firms from issuing new equity if they pass or reduce their pay-outs . |
| 14 | The US computer industry has long used academics to develop software for new high-performance computers . |
| 15 | Penny has long resisted pressures to reveal details of her special relationship with the Princess of Wales but decided to do so after other sources inaccurately reported on it . |
| 16 | Specialist Old Testament study has long answered this question by saying that we have differing traditions of the early history of the people of God : one tradition in which the divine name was known from the earliest times , and another — contradictory — tradition that it was first revealed to Moses . |
| 17 | Chay Blyth has long had links with British Steel and they have produced a pot of around £1 ½ million to fund the running of the race and cover part of the cost of building the yachts and training the crew . |
| 18 | Roberts has long seemed one of the most interesting ingredients in Marsalis 's bands , a young guardian of the traditions exhibiting both the smooth swing of a Wynton Kelly and the crabbiness of Thelonius Monk . |
| 19 | The administration has long known that it faces a bloody fight with conservative insurers and physicians and their hangers-on . |
| 20 | Empirical research has long confirmed that for most people the mass media are the major sources of information about world events ( Table 1.1 ) and about political affairs ( Table 1.2 ) . |
| 21 | Located in the Hawaiian Island of Oahu is Pearl Harbor where the United States has long maintained a massive naval presence which guards against an attack on the west cost of America . |
| 22 | Apparently ruling out any form of legislative veto for minority groups ( a point on which the government side had long insisted ) , the document was nevertheless seen as containing a notable concession in its acceptance of a bicameral parliamentary system . |
| 23 | The Dutch administration had long seen the need for consular representation in Jedda , the port of Mecca , where the security , health and transport of large numbers of Indonesian pilgrims could be supervised by the Batavian authorities . |
| 24 | Their secret organizations had long planned a revolution ; it took place on 18 September 1885 , when the Turkish governor-general was expelled , and a telegram sent to Prince Alexander welcomed him to his new realm . |
| 25 | The German supreme command had long foreseen Romania 's strategy , and two powerful armies had been quietly assembled to counter just this eventuality . |
| 26 | There was a real danger that industrial unrest over this ‘ comb-out ’ would precipitate the event that revolutionary pacifists had long dreamt about — a national anti-war strike in the munitions factories . |
| 27 | Guinness drinkers in Indonesia had long believed in the recuperative powers of Foreign Extra Stout and this has not changed today . |
| 28 | The Department had long seen the field as part of Ninian for taxation purposes until this break-through . |
| 29 | For this was the start of a journey which the Tyrone-born BBC journalist had long wanted to make . |
| 30 | It was bonfire night and townships had long prepared stacks of driftwood and domestic combustibles . |