Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] long [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harsnett 's text has long been seen as one of the established sources for Lear , but in Greenblatt 's analysis a more challenging question is posed : which way was the borrowing ? |
| 2 | Opposite The Indian elephant 's ability to manipulate heavy objects has long been exploited by man . |
| 3 | Health provision has long been centralized ( though with regional elements ) . |
| 4 | Champagne has long been used by the city institutions to woo clients . |
| 5 | A work of this kind has long been wished for … |
| 6 | Cyclic sedimentation has long been recognised here , with the succession at the east end of the island largely marine , and that at the west end largely continental . |
| 7 | The need for children to have a stable home life and happy upbringing has long been recognized . |
| 8 | The Forest of Dean has long been used as a dustbin . |
| 9 | The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( LCCI ) Examinations Board has long been recognised as the major international awarding body for secretarial qualifications . |
| 10 | Physics has long been held as the most successful of the sciences . |
| 11 | The divine has long been made an intimate participant in male experiences of violence , in war and in political martyrdom . |
| 12 | Leith has long been identified with the craft of Shipbuilding . |
| 13 | Hepatitis B was formerly referred to as ‘ serum hepatitis ’ because percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood has long been recognized as a major mode of transmission ; and cases of hepatitis B from blood transfusion , needlesticks , and sharing contaminated needles among drug abusers have been well documented . |
| 14 | The air-filled Parafoil has long been established as a stable single line kite so its development as a steerable stunter for two ( or more as we shall see ) lines came initially as a surprise knowing only too well how difficult it is sometimes to get a Parafoil started . |
| 15 | The industry has long been characterised by mergers between brewers , closures of breweries and sales of public houses . |
| 16 | Entry has long been opposed by Margaret Thatcher and her No 10 economic adviser , Sir Alan Walters — resisting the overtures of Nigel Lawson and Sir Geoffrey Howe with the brick-wall response that the pound would enter ‘ when the time is ripe ’ . |
| 17 | VT has long been recognised as a complication of severe bradyarrhythmias , and less commonly can be the cause of syncope and death in patients with complete atrioventricular block or sinus node dysfunction . |
| 18 | Ultraviolet light has long been accepted as a provocative factor for herpes of the face and lips and many people find that their annual attack coincides with their visit to Majorca or trip to the ski slopes . |
| 19 | A CABINET seat has long been mooted for Virginia Bottomley , who is unique in managing to elicit praise and admiration even from the die-hard male chauvinists in her party . |
| 20 | The University of San Carlos has long been regarded as a hotbed of opposition , and the list of those imprisoned , tortured and murdered is long , even since 1986 . |
| 21 | But religion had long been losing its power to shape and control behaviour and external forces had long sapped the traditional theocentric views of Europeans , even if it was only in 1882 that Nietzsche pronounced the notorious words : ‘ God is dead ’ . |
| 22 | Certain kinds of violence had long been thought particularly un-English . |
| 23 | His eyes had long been trained to see deep into the flat light of the desert . |
| 24 | His victory there was remarkable , because he had no Welsh connections and the seat had long been monopolized by the powerful local family of Wynn , a member of which he defeated . |
| 25 | The secret of Spanish stagnation had long been sought in the excessive size of the ‘ unproductive classes ’ , from grandees down to vagrant schoolmasters . |
| 26 | The small bats known as horseshoe bats have long been known to emit long , fixed-pitch hoots rather than staccato clicks or descending wolf-whistles . |
| 27 | Political parties have long been banned . |
| 28 | The general benefits of encouraging cycling have long been recognised . |
| 29 | This form of cultural xenophobia was indeed common in the 1950s , mainly in anti-American versions , but that battle has long been forgotten . |
| 30 | ‘ Hepatitis B has long been recognised as a risk to healthcare workers and is now considered by many authorities to be the most important infectious occupational disease , and yet we are still failing our workers , ’ she said . |