Example sentences of "[pron] has long been " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | There were two other mills further up the stream , Tocknells , which has long been demolished and Eddels , that still survives as a house . |
| 3 | It involves the use of DMSO ( dimethyl sulphoxide ) , which has long been the centre of controversy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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' . |
| 11 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now they want to gain ownership of Wolvercote Common which has long been managed by a commoners committee . |
| 14 | THE seeds of popular revolt that appear to be taking root across Romania were sown last Thursday in the north-western town of Timisoara when President Nicolae Ceausescu 's security forces moved to evict the Protestant pastor , Laszlo Tokes , who has long been a thorn in the side of the regime . |
| 15 | He is a shy , gentle innocent untouched by any selfish thoughts or feelings , who has long been a pupil of Mr Pecksniff |
| 16 | Mrs Rouncewell 's son , Watt , who has long been in love with Rosa , eventually marries her . |
| 17 | One of the Tories who broke party and class ranks was Dame Janet Fookes , who has long been associated with the RSPCA . |
| 18 | It is on the Welsh border — and I am to reside there in my principality , pursuing my studies under the tutelage of my uncle Earl Rivers and the guardianship of him who has long been my chamberlain , Sir Thomas Vaughan . ’ |
| 19 | D Goldstein of Staravia Ltd , Ascot , who has long been a good friend of the aircraft preservation movement , offered a range of instruments . |
| 20 | Commenting on the meeting , a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Dec. 5 that the Dalai Lama was not merely a religious figure , but a " political exile , who has long been engaged in activities aimed at splitting China and disrupting national unity " . |
| 21 | Prof Wynne Godley , of Cambridge University , who has long been pessimistic about the economy 's future , expects 3.4 million unemployed by the end of this year and 3.6 million by the end of 1994 . |
| 22 | Prof Wynne Godley , of Cambridge University , who has long been pessimistic about the economy 's future , expects 3.4 million unemployed by the end of this year and 3.6 million by the end of 1994 . |
| 23 | Boscastle itself has long been associated with smuggling and witchcraft , and today has a witchcraft museum . |
| 24 | Sometimes very small things can help to preserve an elderly person 's feeling of value and self-esteem , like encouraging her to make some special dish or cake ( for which she has long been praised in the family circle ) once a week , or on birthdays . |
| 25 | Advances in medical knowledge might lead to the conclusion that some are simply too dangerous : there has long been a debate about the status of boxing , with increasing knowledge of the risks of brain damage to boxers . |
| 26 | There has long been an unspoken consensus across the party spectrum that challenging the system would be to enter a political minefield . |
| 27 | There has long been a tradition of separating these ‘ special ’ clinics from the rest of the hospital , and many of them still go under euphemistic titles such as ‘ Martha and Luke ’ clinic , James Pringle House , or ‘ Lydia ’ clinic . |
| 28 | There has long been controversy over who invented the travellers cheque . |
| 29 | There has long been a tradition of skilled furniture-making in the island , making copies of British and French pieces . |
| 30 | Quoting Cypress chief T J Rodgers , Electronic Engineering Times adds that the Ross Technology subsidiary could be shuttered if Sun Microsystems Inc does n't pick up the 66MHz HyperSparc chip in a next-generation box — there has long been talk on Wall Street of a reorganisation of Ross . |