Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have long been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 2 | Returning to the fate of the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts , there are ways to help it to survive , even if they have long been forgotten during the years of subordination to its well-cushioned Soviet existence . |
| 3 | Sometimes mistaken for the name of a tribe of redskins , the word ‘ Hooliganism ’ established itself in Russia with such authority and incomprehensible rapidity that one observer thought in 1912 that it was ‘ as if it had long been expected , as if necessary for the filling of an empty space ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Most theories of rhythm have concentrated on metre and metricality , and while it has long been recognised that the rhythms of the spoken language give variety to what occurs within a given metre , the functioning of these rhythms in poetry has never been adequately investigated . |
| 6 | Whichever is correct , we know that Magellan named the final cape Deseado , ‘ for we had long been desiring it ’ . |
| 7 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 8 | Of non-flowering plants , it has been argued that ferns have a lower associated insect fauna , though it has long been known that bracken has a large number of associated arthropods . |
| 9 | 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 . ) |
| 10 | The grip of her revision is surprising , for it has long been in need of revision itself . |