Example sentences of "which have long [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem , which has long troubled white consciences , has come to the fore now because of a decision by the High Court that in one case aborigines have a legal claim to lands where they hunted before the white man came . |
| 2 | However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 3 | The leaflet marks a major departure in this country which has long ignored the millions of carers who struggle on alone with little or no financial help . |
| 4 | The first great collection or book to have a widespread circulation was the Decretum , which has long gone under the name of Gratian , and which was made in Bologna in the early 1140s . |
| 5 | The router John uses is in fact a Makita laminate trimmer , which has long collar so is easily mounted in the jig . |
| 6 | This idea of the representative having a right , and even a duty , to exercise an independent judgement , with this independence being the core of what is held to distinguish a representative from a mere delegate , is a notion which has long survived Burke 's formulation of it . |
| 7 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 8 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 9 | Amalfi is a warm and colourful town which has long attracted scores of celebrities . |
| 10 | Now they are a slave nation under a new pharaoh , of a dynasty which has long forgotten Egypt 's debt to Joseph ( see Genesis 41 ) . |
| 11 | Still , a Government lately inclined to talk nostalgically about communities might well reflect on whether the actions of a Timex could be said to mesh well with the interests or values of a community which has long afforded the company a secure base and a loyal workforce . |
| 12 | The first stage , of direct military rule , sought merely to suppress opposition to Japanese control — a short-lived republic was declared in 1895 — and wipe out the widespread banditry and disturbances which had long plagued the island under Chinese rule . |
| 13 | Iran , which had long contended that Gulf security should only involve the littoral states , greeted the declaration with great suspicion . |
| 14 | The Act of 1902 reinforced divisions in education which had long existed but which had become more acute with the rapid expansion of both the private and public educational sectors since the 1870s . |
| 15 | Asimov 's kindly robots succeeded in transforming the image of the conscienceless marauders which had long dominated the pages of pulp sci-fi . |
| 16 | The government , which had long spent a disproportionate amount on higher and secondary as opposed to primary education , began to implement a programme to establish universal primary education . |
| 17 | Einstein provided the explanation of this phenomenon which had long eluded the understanding of physicists . |
| 18 | After around 1910 the proportion of Sri Lankans in the civil service , which had long hovered around ten per cent , began to increase . |
| 19 | Hilaire Belloc 's The Servile State , published in 1912 in response to the Liberal social legislation , was a trenchant restatement of the more radical style of liberalism which had long appealed to working people . |
| 20 | The report appeared to confirm rumours which had long circulated to the effect that the CIA had passed on information ( supplied by an informant within the ANC ) which enabled the South African authorities to arrest Mandela , who as an underground activist had evaded arrest for 17 months . |
| 21 | The City of London branch of the ILP , which had long cultivated a middle-class membership well informed about international affairs , developed close links with many of the leading figures in the UDC . |
| 22 | Alone in the room where he passed his nights , Frere closed the chapter of the Bible which had long ceased to occupy his thoughts . |
| 23 | More immediate preoccupations were the domestic economic problems ( inflation , budget deficits , and trade deficits ) which had long eroded the Fourth Republic 's popularity , not to mention French national self-esteem . |
| 24 | Government critics predicted that violence would now escalate , arguing that Fujimori had played into the hands of Sendero , which had long wished to provoke a military coup in the hope of establishing itself as the sole democratic force opposed to a repressive government . |
| 25 | The directorate of Collections and Preservation has recently collaborated with Professor Kevin Kiernan of the University of Kentucky , to produce digitally enhanced images of the Beowulf manuscript and hence the answers to some mysteries which have long perplexed Beowulf scholars . |
| 26 | This is nowhere seen more clearly than in comic books , which have long provided adults and children with an outlet for their imagination . |
| 27 | This is a survivor of the many small country mills , the majority of which have long disappeared . |
| 28 | Starting from scratch has a certain attraction but is hardly an option in countries , such as Britain , which have long established medical schools . |