Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for centuries " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Be it observed , therefore , ’ Seely concluded his diagnosis , ‘ that in these three vital matters , which taken together create an emergency greater than any through which this country has passed for centuries , no solution can be found unless all three parties combine to solve them . ’ |
| 2 | This confusion has existed for centuries in Europe , notably in France . |
| 3 | Although the comprador class in one form or another has existed for centuries , the transnational capitalist class is a relatively new phenomenon . |
| 4 | Yggdrasil composed an exquisite sonnet that deserved to live for centuries , but kept it to itself . |
| 5 | Behind the road-builders trundled wagons laden with graded stone to be pounded and pulverised into place to make a road which was intended to last for centuries to come . |
| 6 | ‘ Two reasons : first , because they moved here , the Sardinians , to find pasture when the land they had grazed for centuries was taken from them for development — the Costa Smeralda , etcetera . |
| 7 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 8 | The toppled heads of long forgotten deities and dignitaries observed his passing , the silence they had enjoyed for centuries broken by the rattling of his chains and bells . |
| 9 | The large , powerful estate owners in Castile and Andalusia continued to exercise the social and economic power they had enjoyed for centuries , based on their monopoly holding of the principal economic resources . |
| 10 | The Baptists of Amersham were only doing what the universal Church had done for centuries in insisting on partaking in the Communion as a sign of being ‘ in communion ’ with the church . |
| 11 | People came out of the forest and went into the forest as they had done for centuries , making the deep tracks down Steep Ridgery . |
| 12 | The dual system of rule which had prevailed for centuries was formally ended and national government brought under the aegis of the reigning sovereign whose authority was recognized throughout the country . |
| 13 | Here Greeks and Muslims and Jews , representatives of the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean world , had mingled for centuries ; and it was a natural entrepot for the spices of the east and a port of call for the Jewish and Muslim traders who linked the western world with India and China . |
| 14 | When my father arrived in Abyssinia in mid-December 1909 to take up his post as British Minister in charge of the Legation , the Emperor Menelik , the greatest ruler the country had known for centuries , was reported to be still alive ; but no one knew for certain , and all men asked what would happen when he died . |
| 15 | I had a chillingly clear picture of its abominable face : it had so many wrinkles and boils it looked as if it had lived for centuries . |
| 16 | Among the mountains around the lake , Kurdish tribes , in their distinctive and spectacular garb , lived as their ancestors had lived for centuries . |
| 17 | He insisted that the United States would have to learn to live as other nations had lived for centuries — namely by co-existing with powerful rivals under the protection offered by the balance of power . |
| 18 | These courts had existed for centuries already , ever since the medieval Templars had been a power in the land . |
| 19 | The Wyndham Act of 1903 gave the deathblow to the old landlord system which had existed for centuries . |
| 20 | When the Battle of the Somme began , Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia did not exist ; Hungary was twice its present size and Austria was the centre of a ramshackle empire which had lasted for centuries . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , that I may be privileged to tread upon flagstones that worshippers have trod for centuries is a joy . |
| 22 | It had started as an evening of fun , said Harper 's defence team , 5 young people doing what young people have done for centuries . |
| 23 | As people have mathematicians have done for centuries . |
| 24 | I could make a playpen for him and buy him one of those big wooden Arks with all the animals in and I could get one of those bags you carry babies around in like the Indians have had for centuries . |
| 25 | The scientific world is beginning to discover what metaphysical teachers have known for centuries , that our world is not composed of any matter at all and that its basic component is a kind of energy or force . |
| 26 | The pits where the birds have buried their eggs are quite easy to spot — as human predators have known for centuries — by the slight mounds left by the birds at the surface . |
| 27 | Some rumours , he says , have survived for centuries , merely by mutating and reappearing in a different guise . |
| 28 | Only , therefore , when the public come to terms with the nature of mental handicap and break down the barriers of misunderstanding which have existed for centuries , will a real sense of understanding permeate our society . |
| 29 | They have existed for centuries , serving as shops , offices , workshops and homes in this bustling corner of the city . |
| 30 | One major reason for this is an unfractured insistence on known traditions that have existed for centuries ; the absence of revolutions and occupying armies in Britain and therefore the lack of radical new beginnings as in Germany and Central Europe after World War I has had this effect . |