Example sentences of "[Wh det] had long been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their main objective was to seize and hold the canal itself against the demolition attacks which had long been threatened by Gen Noriega . |
| 2 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 3 | At the Forest Eyre which opened before him at Windsor in September 1632 , counsel for the Crown was Sir William Noy , the Attorney-General , a learned lawyer determined to re-establish Forest rights which had long been forgotten . |
| 4 | Secondly , the Congress adopted a resolution initiating the First Five Year Plan ( FFYP ) of industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture , both of which had long been advocated by the opposition . |
| 5 | Wrathfully indignant at his mother 's lack of appreciation of his efforts as a mechanic , an idea which had long been in his mind , that of writing a novel , had crystallized . |
| 6 | All over the world , as I had observed on my travels for Panorama and TRI , countries which had long been administered by others were hoisting their own colours ; everywhere the idea of new-born nationhood was in the air . |
| 7 | Lay investiture was symbolically objectionable as representing the quasi-sacerdotal position which had long been claimed by kings and emperors . |
| 8 | With this the criticism of traditional orthodox formulations , which had long been regarded as absolutely central and essential to Christian belief , came on the stage in a new way and ushered in a debate which has continued up to the present . |
| 9 | Increasingly they used the principle of partible inheritance ( which had long been characteristic of some other European societies ) , where the estate was divided between the surviving spouse and children . |
| 10 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 11 | Force , which had long been used to conquer territory and to gain markets and raw materials , could no longer be used for these purposes . |
| 12 | This replaced section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 which had long been the main public order offence and which had been used in a wide range of situations including demonstrations , football hooliganism , " streaking " and industrial disputes . |
| 13 | The second strand , the Bacon and Eltis thesis , took up a theme which had long been forgotten by all but Marxist economists , the distinction between ‘ productive ’ and ‘ unproductive ’ labour . |
| 14 | He decided to return to England and try his hand at photography , which had long been a hobby of his . |
| 15 | The inspiration for the experiment was the German Jugendherbergen accommodation which had long been popular with English trampers and cyclists . |
| 16 | Wilson reports in " Prehistoric Annals of Scotland " ( 1863 ) that " a large standing stone , which had long been overthrown . |
| 17 | They finally ousted the vicious Arena regime , which had long been backed by the US , ending a three-decade battle for social justice . |
| 18 | Bentwaters is , or was , an RAF base which had long been occupied by the American Air Force , probably since the war , proving the theory that East Anglia is the biggest non-floating US aircraft carrier in the world . |
| 19 | Both were directed towards the formalist reading of literary texts , and some anglophone academics tried to minimize the strangeness of French imports by saying that la nouvelle critique was only offering a new version of what had long been familiar in the Anglo-American academy . |
| 20 | The sudden chill of isolation which Britain felt in a hostile world , and the thrill of Dominion contingents serving alongside troops from ‘ home ’ , raised in new form what had long been a nagging conundrum — that the outlying parts of the Empire which Britain defended bore no appreciable share of the burden , precisely because of the fundamental political syllogism : no taxation without representation ; no representation without common responsibility ; no common responsibility without sacrifice of separate independence . |
| 21 | Their work also confirmed what had long been suspected : which is that the majority of creatures on Earth are insects , and most of them are beetles . |
| 22 | Lotus drew some flack with its Windows version of what had long been the world 's number one spreadsheet . |