Example sentences of "long [been] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the coalminers , through their trades unions , have long been major actors in the political arena those of both the workplace ( notably the Trades Union Congress ) and the state ( the Labour party ) . |
| 2 | Eels , speared through their gills on an eel stick , had long been standard rent in the Fens and Somerset Levels . |
| 3 | ( Although a famous novelist has recently garnered considerable publicity for memorizing his interviews , this has long been standard practice for many sociologists . ) ’ |
| 4 | Unlike the Koran , however , the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings . |
| 5 | His design of mill may have been original , but others had long been growing rape-seed in East Anglia and milling rape-seed around London . |
| 6 | Likewise , in south Yorkshire , the cutlery factors and nailchapmen started in a modest way from the local ranks of metalworker-farmers whose surnames had long been characteristic ones in the area . |
| 7 | Within the Conservative party , particularly among local activists and MPs , there had long been numerous critics of the nationalized industries and advocates of a more market-orientated economy . |