Example sentences of "they have long [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their spring offensive in Negros Occidental province — " Operation Thunderbolt " — cleared the NPA from an area which they had long regarded as their own , but with heavy civilian casualties giving rise to criticism of their action from the Catholic Church and human rights groups . |
| 2 | They remained in control over the means of mass communications but those whose work or views they had long ignored were now clamouring for access . |
| 3 | Shah 's victory opened the door to a brave new world in which the proprietors could , once more , manage the industry and bring about the sorts of changes which they had long desired . |
| 4 | Nurses at the infirmary have just been praised by the Audit Commission for their work on discharge planning , and a group of sisters in the orthopaedic unit confirmed that they had long taken this seriously . |
| 5 | Britomart 's superiority appears later when she recognises the right order of things and restores masculine rule , freeing Artegall and the country : ‘ And changing all that forme of commone weale , /The liberty of women did repeale , /Which they had long vsurpt ; and them restoring/To mens subiection , did true Iustice deale ’ ( V , VII , 42 ) . |
| 6 | They kept their heads down in their books though they had long ceased to study , unwilling to catch his eye or even to breathe loudly . |
| 7 | ‘ Licensed retailers have now got the kind of security they have long desired and the chance to take their own business into their own hands and reap the rewards , by being able to play to their strengths and provide what their customers want . |
| 8 | Others feel outsiders are scuppering their chance of the bypass they have long wanted . |
| 9 | Employers , however , have welcomed the 1.5% pay curb , which they have long called for . |
| 10 | .. they have long lost their claim to the name of the Birken Isles , as no birch now occurs there . |
| 11 | Where Keynes is concerned , they have long recognized his importance as an inspiration between the wars for a certain type of progressive , Lib-Lab politics : but few could pass an examination in Keynesian theory . |
| 12 | If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s . |
| 13 | SADDAM HUSSEIN 'S defeat has given Iraq 's Kurds an unprecedented chance to win the autonomy — or independence — they have long sought . |
| 14 | They have long acted independently , rather like managing directors of rival companies . |
| 15 | Ask the thousands of FOBs — friends of Bill — why they have long thought that he would one day be a great president and their replies will sooner or later share the same point . |
| 16 | They have long advised serious car-radio listeners to equip themselves with a Radio Data System . |
| 17 | The minute our engagement is announced the gossipmongers in this little hotbed of a colony will be ready to pounce on any evidence that this is — as they have long predicted — a marriage of convenience ! ’ |
| 18 | Nor are women prominent in senior positions in the professions although they have long had a place there in those areas concerned with women 's affairs which are most clearly associated with their assumed ‘ natural ’ role of caring for and serving others . |