Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time .
2 This has been recognized for a long time .
3 Mass is celebrated here at midday , the church having been reconsecrated after a long deconsecration period .
4 The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’
5 Extensive entries for each of the artist 's works are preceded by a long chronology with numbered and itemised sections discussing in detail the major developments in Magritte 's career .
6 Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known .
7 In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops .
8 This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person .
9 Finally , the most convincing evidence for residual function in animals comes from studies using very coarse stimuli that are presented for a long time .
10 In this type of study , trend values of consumption and income are collected over a long period of time so that most cyclical fluctuations are smoothed out .
11 As the ice slowly melts the plants are watered over a long period .
12 There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source .
13 It had originally been a short par 4 , but had been turned into a long par 3 .
14 The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage .
15 it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time .
16 which again has been used for a long time on animals .
17 Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show .
18 Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time .
19 I think it 's been closed for a long time actually .
20 The concepts of each civilization , like the soil of its homeland , have been cultivated by a long tradition of directed effort , but in the last resort are not invented but given .
21 It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement .
22 Piano keys made with synthetic resins or polymer fibres eventually become slippery with sweat from the pianist 's fingers after been played for a long time .
23 Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry .
24 ‘ These events are occurring now because human rights have been violated for a long time , ’ he said .
25 It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 .
26 Other diuretics have been known for a long time , especially arsenical compounds of mercury .
27 The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes .
28 The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time .
29 It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way .
30 It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can .
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