Example sentences of "long been [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had long been traditional for offices to hold an annual dinner for staff in the winter and an outing or picnic in summer . |
| 2 | He has long been involved in teaching but how does he feel about music education in schools today ? |
| 3 | Like Parker , America 's gay activists have long been critical of US Aids policy , arguing the virus has received insufficient priority because it was ‘ only ’ killing gay men . |
| 4 | Corporate users are hankering after the sort of power , networking features and ‘ scalability ’ ( the ability to expand a network almost infinitely ) that have long been available on workstations . |
| 5 | He called the heron a ‘ crane ’ , for real cranes , sacred birds to the Celts , have long been extinct in Ireland . |
| 6 | Thus although poverty among lone mothers has increased in the 1980s , as a group they have long been vulnerable to poverty . |
| 7 | Manchuria had for long been subject to encroachments by Russia . |
| 8 | Colonizing species of alien genera doing likewise had long been decisive for Darwin 's species origin theorizing , where the analogy with the European human conquests over Australasian natives was hardly less explicit . |
| 9 | Both assumptions , and the interpretation of the circumstances in which they are applicable , have long been controversial among scientists and between scientists and their audiences . |
| 10 | Charles had long been interested in architecture — he had grown up with beautiful buildings and visited hundreds more all over the world ; he had read extensively on the subject and , by the very nature of the job , had seen a multitude of buildings , especially in the inner cities , that not only looked ghastly , but that people clearly found ghastly to live in . |
| 11 | The Magistrate had long been interested in Lucy but not because Cupid had at last managed to lodge an arrow in his stony heart . |
| 12 | Beth had long been concerned about Cissie 's ‘ wanderings ’ . |
| 13 | He wondered why , when other wartime files have long been open to scrutiny . |
| 14 | The first issue interviewed Tyrannosaurus Rex , a band which , in their hippy phase , and before their reappearance as a chart group , T. Rex , had long been popular with Peel . |
| 15 | The South African economy has long been dependent on minerals , especially gold . |
| 16 | But in fairness to Bunce , who plays for Auckland , he has long been resident in New Zealand and had no thoughts of international rugby until approached by Western Samoa , whose 26-strong World Cup squad included only one player still living in the country . |