Example sentences of "[verb] long [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BT 's new alliance should also give it the sort of access to the American market it has long been seeking . |
| 2 | The Ministry of Information has long been refusing to let any journalist visit Tikrit , the town where Saddam was born . |
| 3 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 4 | Wont Be Gone Long was making a belated seasonal reappearance due to a nasty cut on a hind leg , but now fully recovered , he loves this fast ground and obviously jumps for fun . |
| 5 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 6 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 7 | Indians had long been demanding the return of sacred relics , and both Stanford University and the University of Minnesota had already agreed to release their collections to Indians . |
| 8 | I HAD LONG BEEN TRYING … |
| 9 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 10 | FRANCE 's ruling Socialists had long been expecting the deb∘acle . |
| 11 | A survey by Hay Management Consultants estimates that boardroom pay in Britain was still rising at an annual rate of 10–14% in the last six months of 1990 , although profits had long been tumbling . |
| 12 | He told Freddie that Fiona had remarried and produced the son and heir for which her family had long been hoping . |
| 13 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 14 | She had long been campaigning to get her late husband 's body buried in the Philippines . |
| 15 | Instead , having been assured that Rick no longer had any violent feelings towards her , she earnestly pleaded that she had long been awaiting an opportunity to return it in person and apologise for causing so much distress . |
| 16 | or : No , such changes had long been coming and were incomplete by 1914 . |
| 17 | But religion had long been losing its power to shape and control behaviour and external forces had long sapped the traditional theocentric views of Europeans , even if it was only in 1882 that Nietzsche pronounced the notorious words : ‘ God is dead ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Poor old England , too , had long been corroding from within . |
| 19 | Whichever is correct , we know that Magellan named the final cape Deseado , ‘ for we had long been desiring it ’ . |
| 20 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |
| 21 | These writs were not new and by Edward 's reign the church had long been fighting against their use in such matters as tithes and debts , testaments and matrimony . |
| 22 | The Western powers and Japan , who had long been attempting to secure rights and interests in China , were now faced with a series of regimes too weak to resist some of their demands , or to see that any concessions were adhered to . |
| 23 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 24 | Virgin and Coutts had long been growing apart . |
| 25 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 26 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 27 | The folios and quartos laboured on so industriously by forgotten clerics and divines , the erudite editions of minor classical writers , have long been gathering dust in countless book shops . |
| 28 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 29 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 30 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |