Example sentences of "have [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has for sometime been fixated on photography at its most basic . |
| 2 | The Society has for over a year objected strongly to the plan under which the current arrangements for remunerating solicitors on the basis of work actually done are to be replaced by a standard fee scheme from April . |
| 3 | The powerful multiplicity of sexuality has for too long been reduced to the level of the coarse car sticker , the symbol of two feet pointing upwards and two feet pointing downwards . |
| 4 | With the breakdown of the artificial barrier which has for too long divided an academic education from vocational one , there are opportunities for all — provided you 're intelligent enough to sort out the colleges from the universities from the polytechnics that is . |
| 5 | Concern has for too long been with problems of stylistic chronological placement and historical continuity between and among archaeologically defined units . |
| 6 | It 's marvellous to see the wide variety of bird feeders , pond liners , wildflower seeds , nest-boxes , butterfly border plants and other merchandise marketed in this way , and , of course , it 's to be encouraged in an industry which has for too long simply serviced the chemical-warfare approach to gardening . |
| 7 | The subject of art has for too long been considered by many teachers as a frill , — there it is on the time-table , a compulsory subject ; some schools give it a period a week , some a double period , and some even more . |
| 8 | ‘ Joyce did not move from the day book of Ulysses to the night book of the Wake , and that has for too long been one of the fundamental mistakes that people have been making . |
| 9 | The Tory Government , my Lord Mayor , has for too long denied people the real choice . |
| 10 | The most important aspects of the ‘ green Budget ’ are that it will encourage people to act , and it recognises the environmental mantra that energy has for too long been too cheap . |
| 11 | While Labour needs to think hard about a coherent and realistic policy , to give substance to what is otherwise simply a slogan , there were signs in Inverness of regeneration — and a recognition that Labour has for too long taken its political dominance in Scotland for granted . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the rapid uptake of the technology , with the implications this has for very substantial job displacement in some sectors , even if matched in the longer term by job creation elsewhere , is highly likely to create further problems for the economy and for society to handle . |
| 13 | Monkey Mia , on the remote western coastline of Australia , has for more than two decades been visited by wild dolphins . |
| 14 | IBM 's famous opinion survey is alive and well , running every second year , as it has for more than 20 years . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that instead of treating the sea as the giver of life to mankind , as it certainly is , it has for far too long been treated as the world 's sewer . |
| 16 | Britain has proved to be one of the least ‘ community-minded ’ members of the EEC and has for long been at odds with other states about the level of British contributions to the EEC budget . |
| 17 | ( Germany 's unemployment has for long been extremely high , and is currently catastrophically so in the former East Germany . ) |
| 18 | It has for long been held that our modern idea of time derives from that of early Christianity , which in turn can be traced back to that of ancient Israel and Judaism . |
| 19 | The public road to Killilan has for long been the usual route taken by motorists wishing to see the Falls of Glomach , permission to use a private road continuing into Glen Elchaig being a formality . |
| 20 | The Bourbon variety ‘ Mme Isaac Pereire ’ , with huge crimson blooms , has for long been widely regarded as the most powerfully scented rose of all . |
| 21 | The subject of dependent nomic conditionals has for long been a disputed one , and part of larger disputed subjects , those of larger categories of " if " statements and of " if " statements generally . |
| 22 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |
| 23 | Whereas in the UK a general degree is a particular type of undergraduate curriculum , in the USA general education has for long been part of everyone 's undergraduate degree , along with electives ( options ) and a major subject . |
| 24 | It has for long been the task of the Secretary of State for the Home Department either in the exercise of the prerogative of mercy or more recently on a statutory basis to determine in the case of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment , how much of that sentence should be served . |
| 25 | The ice mantle has for long overlapped the edges of the continent , unable to grow bigger without breaking off . |
| 26 | A brief literature review of the popular sedimentological journals indicates an increasing emphasis on petrography within Europe , whereas within the United States and Canada sedimentary petrology has for long been a necessary component of integrated sedimentological research projects . |
| 27 | Dick Fletcher who runs New Media , one of Europe 's leading CD-I development companies , has for long suggested a simple rule of thumb for deciding whether a device is a computer or an appliance . |
| 28 | The multimedia hardware industry has for long recognised the vital importance of these tools . |
| 29 | While teleconferencing has for long been the province of very large organisations , codec development together with the digitising of telephone networks and the emergence of ISDNs , will bring teleconferencing within reach of a mass market . |
| 30 | Bookselling has for long been stereotyped as a sheltered world , separated from the usual pressures of everday business concerns , where change is almost instinctively resisted . |