Example sentences of "[noun] that have long be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 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 ) .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
8 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 ?
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