Example sentences of "have long [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The palm court , both vegetation and orchestra , has long since been repossessed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It has long since been turned into a pond and moat . |
| 6 | Today the garden is still there , although it has long since been absorbed into the sprawling outskirts of the town . |
| 7 | But this idea has long since been rejected . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | This model has long since been embellished , however , by the Anglo-American followers of I. A. Richards . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ As a trade issue , the beef ban has long since been wiped out , ’ The Scotsman was told . |
| 14 | 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for the all-round grocery clerk , fruiterer and vegetable dealer , dairyman , butcher , and so forth , has long ago been replaced by a labor configuration in the supermarkets which calls for truck unloaders , shelf stockers , checkout clerks , meat wrappers , and meat cutters ; of these only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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 17 | The crucial moment when children realise that their parents are younger than they are had long since been passed by Martha . |
| 18 | If Robson Rhodes had not decided to make fundamental changes in its operating style five years ago , the chances are that it would have long since been swallowed up by one of its rivals . |
| 19 | Six months later , Delaney had lit tie doubt that the tragic explosion of an oil tanker in mid ocean would have long since been forgotten , and Connors , or whoever , would be in the New Year 's Honours List . |
| 20 | It served , however only to churn up the sodden land , whose drainage system had long since been destroyed by years of artillery fire , into a vast morass of craters filled with water , through which the British were expected to advance . |
| 21 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 22 | On the few stumps that remained of Verdun 's noble forests on the Right Bank , the bark either hung down in strips , or else had long since been consumed by half-starved pack-horses . |
| 23 | Rusted hooks hung from antiquated iron girders above him , the windows had long since been vandalized and the faded walls were daubed with obscene graffiti . |
| 24 | Her red hair was a beacon in the night — a flame in which he had long since been charred . |
| 25 | The fire was still burning in the hearth ; all the draughts had long since been stopped ; but the room itself had gone chill around her . |
| 26 | In the Septizonium , an ancient Roman temple at the south-east corner of the Palatine , which had long since been annexed for other uses , safe from outside interference and imperial troops , for it was still possible for emperors to attempt to interfere with elections , the election commenced after each cardinal had celebrated mass and all of them had exchanged the kiss of peace . |
| 27 | In the chaos of the battlefield , where all reference points had long since been obliterated , relieving detachments often got lost and wandered hopelessly all night ; only to be massacred by an enemy machine-gunner as dawn betrayed them . |
| 28 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 29 | Space was at such a premium here that the narrow side streets had long since been filled with structures . |
| 30 | It was a painful sacrifice for the Harvey Lane Church to relinquish their beloved pastor but they recognised that ‘ his heart had long since been set ’ upon work overseas . |