Example sentences of "long [been] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 2 | Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry may come and go but Sir Jeffrey Sterling , chairman of the P&O group , has long been part of the furniture at 1 Victoria Street . |
| 3 | Fortunately , the answer lay close at hand , in that sense of the redeeming power of personal example which had for so long been part of the mental furniture of the British middle classes . |
| 4 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 5 | There had long been bickerings between the monks of the cathedral church at Canterbury and the neighbouring monastery of St Augustine 's just outside the city wall . |
| 6 | In reality , like the Visigoths , they had long been neighbours of the Romans . |