Example sentences of "long [been] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 ICI , for all the apparent successes of the 1980s , has long been perceived as a lumbering , bureaucratic conglomerate , in which winners subsidise losers .
2 Early retirement had also long been advocated as a means of cutting unemployment and of encouraging the promotion of younger workers .
3 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 .
4 The British countryside has long been regarded as a source of out-migration and a pool of reserve labour for urban areas .
5 In Britain , with its strong two-party system , a government defeat on a vote of confidence has long been regarded as a theoretical possibility rather than practical politics .
6 Second , income tax has long been regarded as a tax of central importance in government management of the economy ; it is a major financial and psychological weapon in securing the success of the Cabinet 's economic strategy .
7 Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources .
8 Gusmao had long been regarded as a symbol of the resistance to Indonesian rule in East Timor and his capture was a massive blow to Fretilin .
9 SERBIA 'S president , Slobodan Milosevic , has long been regarded as the artful dodger of Balkan politics .
10 A British international cap has long been regarded as the ultimate achievement for the amateur golfer .
11 The continuous return to the same subject to wring out every ounce of meaning from it , has long been regarded as the hallmark of the true professional .
12 In a country where , as a popular song puts it , ‘ every son is born a soldier ’ and turns out each year for a spell of military service until he is well into middle age , the army has long been regarded as an essential part of the country 's armed neutrality .
13 Provoked killings are generally thought to be less heinous than unprovoked killings , and provocation has long been accepted as a ground for reducing to manslaughter a killing which would otherwise fulfil the definition of murder .
14 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 .
15 The second site , at Chedworth , has for so long been accepted as the typical Romano-British villa , that one hesitates to question its function .
16 It is true that baroque had long been adopted as the style for state capitols in the United States , but the Beaux-Arts style in all its overblown pomposity was to reflect this new sense of greatness .
17 Preventing the pollution of drinking water by untreated human excrement , for example , has long been recognised as a basic health concern .
18 In the private sector the quality of leadership has long been recognised as a key factor affecting organisational performance .
19 ‘ 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 .
20 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 .
21 The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( LCCI ) Examinations Board has long been recognised as the major international awarding body for secretarial qualifications .
22 Richard Hickox has long been recognised as an outstanding conductor and trainer of choirs , and here his usual high standards of excellence .
23 Concrete had long been utilized as a bonding and covering material but it was the Romans who developed it as a structural one .
24 The Bible has long been recognized as a composite work spanning many centuries , not some kind of monolithic whole , and whilst opinions differ widely as to the precise dating ( and methods of dating ) of its constituent parts , it remains the case that a book , or indeed a chapter , may lie in the received text next to a verse or chapter some several centuries removed in compositional/redactional terms from its neighbour .
25 Whilst ‘ the elderly ’ have long been recognized as a distinct social category , ever-stricter stratification by age has emerged since industrialization ( Thomas 1976 ; Quadragno 1982 ) .
26 Accessibility has long been recognized as a ‘ slippery notion ’ .
27 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 .
28 The idea that monetary policy can be used to fine-tune the real economy has long been exposed as a myth .
29 The chancery had long been conducted as an " imperial " chancery — indeed it was the successor of the late imperial Roman chancery .
30 Physical beauty has long been seen as a reflection of God 's presence in the world ; mystical texts describe the divine beauty to be found in creation as the female spirit , the bride and the beloved .
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