Example sentences of "long been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 3 | Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate . |
| 4 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 5 | There have long been stories of mysterious sounds at sea : haunted eerie calls in the night , mermaids singing , sirens luring sailors on to the rocks . |
| 6 | There have long been stories of human giants in legend and mythology . |
| 7 | The donor is Mr James Campbell , of the Kilberry family who have long been experts on piobaireachd . |
| 8 | Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry may come and go but Sir Jeffrey Sterling , chairman of the P&O group , has long been part of the furniture at 1 Victoria Street . |
| 9 | Fortunately , the answer lay close at hand , in that sense of the redeeming power of personal example which had for so long been part of the mental furniture of the British middle classes . |
| 10 | In the search for a transcendent level of knowledge , it has long been part of human endeavour to enter a symbolic womb of darkness and learn within its space . |
| 11 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 12 | Whereas in the UK a general degree is a particular type of undergraduate curriculum , in the USA general education has for long been part of everyone 's undergraduate degree , along with electives ( options ) and a major subject . |
| 13 | An almost unquestioned belief in the street people had long been part of It 's rhetoric , with or without the romanticization of the drop-out , from Kerouac through to Emmett Grogan . |
| 14 | There has long been controversy over who invented the travellers cheque . |
| 15 | Quoting Cypress chief T J Rodgers , Electronic Engineering Times adds that the Ross Technology subsidiary could be shuttered if Sun Microsystems Inc does n't pick up the 66MHz HyperSparc chip in a next-generation box — there has long been talk on Wall Street of a reorganisation of Ross . |
| 16 | The third principle is one that the Danes have long been sticklers for — the democratic accountability of European government . |
| 17 | There have long been rumours of putting bolts on Bosigran routes where the belays are difficult to arrange . |
| 18 | Social and economic inequality have long been features of our society , but such inequality does not always have the same implications for health status . |
| 19 | There had long been bickerings between the monks of the cathedral church at Canterbury and the neighbouring monastery of St Augustine 's just outside the city wall . |
| 20 | In reality , like the Visigoths , they had long been neighbours of the Romans . |
| 21 | The film industry and the export of works of art , so far primarily the joint responsibility of the OAL and the Department of Trade and Industry , have long been candidates for transfer to an enlarged arts department . |