Example sentences of "[pron] had long been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this the criticism of traditional orthodox formulations , which had long been regarded as absolutely central and essential to Christian belief , came on the stage in a new way and ushered in a debate which has continued up to the present . |
| 2 | Secondly , the Congress adopted a resolution initiating the First Five Year Plan ( FFYP ) of industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture , both of which had long been advocated by the opposition . |
| 3 | Their main objective was to seize and hold the canal itself against the demolition attacks which had long been threatened by Gen Noriega . |
| 4 | Wilson reports in " Prehistoric Annals of Scotland " ( 1863 ) that " a large standing stone , which had long been overthrown . |
| 5 | All over the world , as I had observed on my travels for Panorama and TRI , countries which had long been administered by others were hoisting their own colours ; everywhere the idea of new-born nationhood was in the air . |
| 6 | They finally ousted the vicious Arena regime , which had long been backed by the US , ending a three-decade battle for social justice . |
| 7 | Bentwaters is , or was , an RAF base which had long been occupied by the American Air Force , probably since the war , proving the theory that East Anglia is the biggest non-floating US aircraft carrier in the world . |
| 8 | Force , which had long been used to conquer territory and to gain markets and raw materials , could no longer be used for these purposes . |
| 9 | Lay investiture was symbolically objectionable as representing the quasi-sacerdotal position which had long been claimed by kings and emperors . |
| 10 | At the Forest Eyre which opened before him at Windsor in September 1632 , counsel for the Crown was Sir William Noy , the Attorney-General , a learned lawyer determined to re-establish Forest rights which had long been forgotten . |
| 11 | The second strand , the Bacon and Eltis thesis , took up a theme which had long been forgotten by all but Marxist economists , the distinction between ‘ productive ’ and ‘ unproductive ’ labour . |
| 12 | Staff who had long been encouraged to develop treatment relationships towards prisoners had little time left for this important work after discharging tasks arising from the need to concentrate on security . |
| 13 | As no man can serve two masters we had long been told no wise general tries to fight on two fronts . |
| 14 | It had long been believed that he who held the Tower , held London in the palm of his hand . |
| 15 | It had long been understood that , while the refugee camps of the East Bank had remained pro-PLO ever since the events of 1970–1 , the wealthier Palestinians had incorporated themselves into the Jordanian establishment . |
| 16 | Despite this virtual unanimity of opinion 104 it had long been accepted that there were certain exceptions to the rule . |
| 17 | In that context it had long been accepted that the settlement of individual claims might be incorporated into an overall package . |
| 18 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 19 | What is more it had long been accepted that only the pope could perform this . |
| 20 | It had long been recognized that many species are protected from predators by colouring that provides camouflage . |
| 21 | It had long been suspected by the western powers that Russia was developing an atomic bomb , and in 1951 such a bomb was tested in the U.S.S.R. |
| 22 | However , even before the Act of 1989 made the distinction clear for all to see , it had long been recognised that wardship was only machinery and that the court 's inherent jurisdiction could be exercised whether or not the child was a ward : see , for example , In re L. ( An Infant ) [ 1968 ] P. 119 , 157 . |
| 23 | It had long been argued that the maintenance of a low level of unemployment should be the guiding principle of a government 's economic policy . |
| 24 | The 1986 Programme , similarly , contained no reference to the historic goal of the withering away of the state ( it had long been predicted that the only thing that would wither away was the idea that the state should wither away ) ; its main emphasis was upon practical and short-term objectives , and it struck a disciplinarian rather than utopian note in its references to careerism , nepotism and profiteering . |
| 25 | Homosexuality was plundered partly for its shock value but more importantly the sensibility , which quickly permeated Glam Rock , with which it had long been associated : camp . |
| 26 | The publication by Lobachevsky in 1829 of a consistent ( non-Euclidean ) geometry , in which Euclid 's parallel postulate is denied , should perhaps have turned mathematicians ' attention back to a study of axioms , especially as it had long been appreciated that Euclid 's use of the axiomatic method was , to say the least , inconsistent ( [ 106 ] contains stronger views . ) |
| 27 | It had long been thought that many seventeenth and eighteenth century blocks in Rome were of a type of construction essentially Medieval or Renaissance , but Ostia shows that the basic plan of these is Roman . |
| 28 | It had long been suggested that Mayer had the sound technician tamper with the soundtrack of Gilbert 's early talkie His Glorious Night to make him sound risible . |
| 29 | It had long been known that some metals gave colours to flames ; but this was an unreliable test , because colours are hard to describe exactly , and because they are usually masked by a brilliant orange-yellow . |
| 30 | This is called precession of the perihelion , and is not in itself curious because it had long been known that precession of the perihelion is one result of the gravitational influence on a planet 's orbit of all the other planets in the Solar System . |