Example sentences of "[vb base] long be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a much older problem and one which precedes the rise of environmentalism , because in addition to the environmental lobby the exclusive rights of the farmer have long been under threat from another source — the massed ranks of the urban population , intent on using the countryside as a source of recreation and determined to gain access to what they consider to be semi-public territory . |
| 2 | These halfway conditions have long been of interest , though until recently mainly among psychoanalysts or other writers outside mainstream psychiatry . |
| 3 | These are questions that have long been of concern . |
| 4 | Chinese rugs have long been in tune with Western colour schemes , and a growing number of Anatolian groups are now producing traditional and Caucasian designs in much softer shades . |
| 5 | Certainly the phrases " the Bleiburg Massacre " and " the Bleiburg Tragedy " have long been in currency , and have been used by historians sympathetic to the Croats such as Prcela and Guldescu in Operation slaughterhouse : Eyewitness Accounts of Post-war Massacres in Yugoslavia ( Dorrance , 1970 ) . |
| 6 | I rarely speak or am active on guillotine motions and resulting business arrangements on timing , because in general I have long been in favour of timetabling all Bills from the start . |
| 7 | financial services have long been among the heaviest users of search ; Michael Brookes at Nomura referred to 20 major assignments in less than three years with many more slightly lower-level searches . |