Example sentences of "that have long be " in BNC.

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1 Street children like Manoel now fear more than temporary incarceration at Febem , the Dickensian state orphanage that has long been a synonym for alienation and violence .
2 The effects of observers ' values and predispositions on their perceptions , descriptions , and analyses of ethnographic reality is , of course , an issue that has long been a matter of explicit concern to anthropologists .
3 There is a wind of change blowing through the corporate environment these days , one that has long been predicted but that few expected to actually see .
4 But you never know , it may be tat all at once you recognise something of yourself that has long been buried in your subconscious .
5 and ‘ beyond some point that has long been surpassed in crowded industrial societies , conditions of use tend to deteriorate as use becomes more widespread ’ ( pp. 2–3 ) .
6 Drafix CAD is an MS-DOS based CAD drawing package that has long been the choice of users who have been unwilling to pay the price demanded for the industry standard — AutoCad .
7 In a sense that has long been the case , since it has generally been supposed that turbulent flows are contained within a deterministic set of equations — the Navier-Stokes and continuity equations .
8 Emily had taken her revenge swiftly , severing the ties that had long been between the Grenfells and the Morgans .
9 Sandro Calvani , head of UNDCP 's Bolivian operations , defends his group 's activities , pointing out that his organisation started relief work in an area that had long been shunned by most other international agencies as too dangerous .
10 The judges felt it was a book that had long been needed and gave the work of many of the Bauhaus photographers the recognition they deserved .
11 In 1969 , Ian Greer , a former Conservative Party agent , brought to Britain a craft that had long been established in America : the political consultant or professional lobbyist .
12 I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest .
13 The old agrarian basis of the economy survived well into the Georgian era but the enormous growth of population made a new form of local society unavoidable and the Enclosure Award of 1766 put the final seal of approval on changes that had long been underway .
14 On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) .
15 Zapp is the supreme professional , who embodies , albeit comically , those ideals of professionalism that have long been dominant in the North American academy and are becoming so in the British .
16 Researchers at the Salk Institute in California have at last tracked down the last of the ‘ releasing factors ’ secreted by cells in the hypothalamus that have long been assumed to regulate the release of hormones from the pituitary gland ( Trends in Neurosciences .
17 Corporate users are hankering after the sort of power , networking features and ‘ scalability ’ ( the ability to expand a network almost infinitely ) that have long been available on workstations .
18 These are questions that have long been of concern .
19 Consider the different ways we can use a key : to open doors or containers or gates that have long been locked : " Are you sure you want to do this ?
20 The forms that have long been used by conveyancers ( LLC1 and Con 29A or Con 29D ) are to have their format altered with effect from 1 September 1991. ( b ) Who registers ?
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