Example sentences of "[pron] have long been " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I have long been fascinated by his work . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , as a biologist , I have long been somewhat suspicious of the assumptions about human behavior and motivation made by psychologists and sociologists . |
| 5 | I have long been interested in military technology so I was determined to attend the presentation . |
| 6 | I have long been a avid reader of books about islands . |
| 7 | I have long been a professor in the University Of Life . |
| 8 | I have long been an admirer of Hannah , and I have read the books and seen the television programmes . |
| 9 | I have long been concerned about the time lapse from the commissioning of a book to its appearance in the shops . |
| 10 | I have long been impressed , for example , by the changes that occur between the Frasnian and Famennian stages of the Late Devonian . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Gardiner traces the passions , torments and tragedy ( the death of two of their children ) of their shared life , and sheds light on episodes which have long been the subject of rumour and anecdote . |
| 14 | It claimed that ‘ The pooling of coal and steel production will immediately provide for the establishment of common bases for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe , and will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the munitions of war , of which they have been the most constant victims ’ . |
| 15 | Recent research advocates that the minute spaces within the substance of the core , which have long been known to exist , are true bone cell or osteocyte cell spaces . |
| 16 | Many villages , especially in Persia , which have long been associated with highly sophisticated work , have either ceased weaving altogether or produce so few examples that they now have only an historic relevance to the contemporary scene . |
| 17 | The best known coral fisheries are those which have long been conducted in the warm waters of the west Mediterranean between North Africa and Italy , and around Malaysia and Japan . |
| 18 | Chinese diplomats , who have long been close to both the prince and the Khmers Rouges , have outlined the shape of a possible deal to some of their western counterparts . |
| 19 | It is also empowering for groups who have long been powerless , downgraded , humiliated , patronised , deskilled and diminished to discover the strength of concerted action for themselves and on their own behalf . |
| 20 | The donor is Mr James Campbell , of the Kilberry family who have long been experts on piobaireachd . |
| 21 | These two people had enacted what we have long been accustomed to think of as a romantic programme , whereby love and death converge , and dying young is the thing to do , whereby other people , and common life , are a thing to be escaped from , and a tension develops between the duty to a partner and a cultivation of the self , between the dictates of an amour fou and an amour de soi . |
| 22 | We have long been committed Europeans , believing that Britain can only be secure , successful and environmentally safe if we play our full part in building a more united and democratic Europe . |
| 23 | There have long been stories of mysterious sounds at sea : haunted eerie calls in the night , mermaids singing , sirens luring sailors on to the rocks . |
| 24 | But the rivers that keep the lake fresh are required for agriculture ; and there have long been plans to dam them . |
| 25 | There have long been stories of human giants in legend and mythology . |
| 26 | This may be seen as a move to make international law into proper law , or at least international law with one of its essential purposes , the control of force , and , of course , there have long been laws to restrict the type and degree of force used even in legitimate war , and some restrictions on the very legality of wars , for instance when they are in contravention of treaties . |
| 27 | There have long been rumours of putting bolts on Bosigran routes where the belays are difficult to arrange . |
| 28 | Tallis argues that people talk of ‘ signifieds ’ , when they should say ‘ referents ’ ; there is nothing new or unfamiliar in the idea of verbal signs having multiple or even clashing references , and they have long been exploited by poets and punsters , as Tallis does in the title of his book . |
| 29 | Returning to the fate of the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts , there are ways to help it to survive , even if they have long been forgotten during the years of subordination to its well-cushioned Soviet existence . |
| 30 | At the time of the Han dynasty , when jade was still the only material fit to accompany the emperor , it was accompanied in the case of feudal lords and officials of grades 1–3 by pearls and in that of officials of grade 4 by gold.47 One indication of the status of pearls in Christendom is their use in iconography as symbols of regeneration , and the way they have long been used to enrich the crowns of sovereigns from the sacred crown of Hungary to the mitre crown of Catherine II of Russia and in our own day the State Crown of Queen Elizabeth II ( Frontispiece ; figs. 35 and 37 ) . |