Example sentences of "has long [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The palm court , both vegetation and orchestra , has long since been repossessed . |
| 2 | It has long since been turned into a pond and moat . |
| 3 | The manor has long since been broken up and sold off and Andrew now only holds small pieces of land , though these include some of the grass and trees where the proclamation is made . |
| 4 | He arrived in the West Country after a long train journey from his Cleveland home to admit that the Fedora , ever-present symbol of Crystal Palace 's 1976 FA Cup run , has long since been auctioned off for £1,500 to charity . |
| 5 | The village of Claythorpe , once quite large and with a railway passing through , has disappeared from the face of some modern-day maps and the railway has long since been dismantled . |
| 6 | The airborne branch has long since been covered in its own thorough MAA 139 , so it is welcome to see this new and interesting study of the LFDs — in much greater and more specific depth , and well illustrated . |
| 7 | ( The old argument , fashionable in the 1960s , whether molecular biology is a separate discipline ir , instead , an ingredient of every other has long since been settled in favour of pervasiveness . ) |
| 8 | This model has long since been embellished , however , by the Anglo-American followers of I. A. Richards . |
| 9 | The myth that community care is cheaper than institutional care has long since been dispensed with , but this may not necessarily deter the government from seeing the impending changes as an opportunity to cut costs . |
| 10 | But this idea has long since been rejected . |
| 11 | Today the garden is still there , although it has long since been absorbed into the sprawling outskirts of the town . |
| 12 | The old chestnut of rating a disk drive by its Data Access Time , or Average Seek Time has long since been overtaken by modern drive technology . |
| 13 | ‘ As a trade issue , the beef ban has long since been wiped out , ’ The Scotsman was told . |
| 14 | New black immigration has long ago been stopped , but any black man or woman who wants to bring dependants over , or be visited by relatives from home , is now afraid of what these people will have to suffer . |
| 15 | He says ‘ the demand for the all-round grocery clerk , fruiterer and vegetable dealer , dairyman , butcher , and so forth , has long ago been replaced by a labor configuration in the supermarkets which calls for truck unloaders , shelf stockers , checkout clerks , meat wrappers , and meat cutters ; of these only the last retain any semblance of skill , and none require any general knowledge of retail trade ’ . |