Example sentences of "[pron] have long been " 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 | I HAD LONG BEEN TRYING … |
| 3 | I had long been in favour of CVRs but like many other people I was very dissatisfied with the quality , particularly the clarity of the only really useful part of the recording — that from the area microphone on the first channel . |
| 4 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 5 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 6 | I 've long been unproductive . |
| 7 | As my own thank-offering I would like to try briefly to express some thoughts on education by which I have long been troubled and to which no place , for reasons which I will show , could be more appropriate than this . |
| 8 | I have long been fascinated by his work . |
| 9 | I HAVE long been impressed by the number of careless references in the Scriptures to the faithful blithely taking it upon themselves to raise houses to the Lord . |
| 10 | ‘ Now , as a biologist , I have long been somewhat suspicious of the assumptions about human behavior and motivation made by psychologists and sociologists . |
| 11 | I have long been interested in military technology so I was determined to attend the presentation . |
| 12 | I have long been a avid reader of books about islands . |
| 13 | I have long been a professor in the University Of Life . |
| 14 | I have long been an admirer of Hannah , and I have read the books and seen the television programmes . |
| 15 | I have long been concerned about the time lapse from the commissioning of a book to its appearance in the shops . |
| 16 | I have long been impressed , for example , by the changes that occur between the Frasnian and Famennian stages of the Late Devonian . |
| 17 | I rarely speak or am active on guillotine motions and resulting business arrangements on timing , because in general I have long been in favour of timetabling all Bills from the start . |
| 18 | I have long been suspicious of the official line that terminal bonuses are directly attributed to investment surplus and that poor value on death or on policy premium amendment is the price for higher returns if you are lucky enough to make it to retirement . |
| 19 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 20 | There were two other mills further up the stream , Tocknells , which has long been demolished and Eddels , that still survives as a house . |
| 21 | It involves the use of DMSO ( dimethyl sulphoxide ) , which has long been the centre of controversy . |
| 22 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 23 | The description ‘ schizotypal ’ is really just a modern equivalent of the older one , ‘ schizoid ’ , which has long been recognised as having an affinity with schizophrenia . |
| 24 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 25 | They will be reporting the concerns of a vast sector of the population ( some 85% ) which has long been isolated by differences in language , colour and by high rates of illiteracy . |
| 26 | If turf which has long been mown , and the case would be the same with turf closely browsed by quadrupeds , be let to grow , the more vigorous plants gradually kill the less vigorous , though fully grown plants ; thus out of 20 species growing on a little plot of mown turf ( 3 feet by 4 feet ) 9 species perished , from the other species being allowed to grow up freely ’ ( The Origin of Species ) . |
| 27 | According to one of my sources , it is the origin of the American term ‘ railroading ’ , which has long been used as a slang term throughout the USA to mean compelling somebody to do something they do not want to do , and for which the legal or other administrative justification is marginal or dubious . |
| 28 | Martha Wolfenstein ( 1955 ) points out the distinction which has long been made ‘ between what a baby ‘ needs ’ , his legitimate requirements , whatever is essential to his health and well-being , on the one hand , and what the baby ‘ wants ’ , his illegitimate pleasure strivings , on the other' . |
| 29 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 30 | A pesticide which has long been thought to cause sickness and death in farm workers has been subjected to a partial ban following an agreement between the manufacturers and the US Environmental Protection Agency . |