Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 2 | Complex adaptations have developed because in certain circumstances the same selection pressure has been maintained over a long period of time . |
| 3 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
| 4 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 5 | This has been realized for a long time , and it is on record that John Dalton analysed the water supply for the firm of Sykes & Co. at Stockport and declared it suitable for the purpose . |
| 6 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 7 | All your behaviour , with the exception of those reflexes that were built into the system , has been acquired over a long period of ad hoc learning . |
| 8 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 9 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 10 | The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can . |
| 13 | The value of printing a linear document from a database has been appreciated for a long time . |
| 14 | If it 's a professional job they will have been observed over a long period and their habits and financial status will be known . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mass is celebrated here at midday , the church having been reconsecrated after a long deconsecration period . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The decision was reported to have been reached after a long and tense debate in which a more moderate current , headed by the Imam Abdelkader al-Hachani , a mining engineer in his early thirties , argued in favour of participation as a necessary step towards the creation of an Islamic state . |
| 19 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 20 | He had been gone for a long time . |
| 21 | There they had been questioned for a long time , in a way which — Alice could see , watching Bert 's face as he told the tale — had not only impressed but sobered the two . |
| 22 | It had originally been a short par 4 , but had been turned into a long par 3 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was not easy , even for a German captain , to intervene at this stage , but once he had been subjected to a long discussion and much persuasion , he contacted the SS in Tabiano and managed to have us set free . |
| 28 | Most historical accounts have been influenced by a long sociological tradition going back to Frederic le Play 's L'Organisation de la famille selon le vrai modèle signalé par l'histoire de toutes les races et de tous les temps ( 1871 ) , which saw a broad change in the family from the extended form in the middle ages to nuclear form in modernity . |
| 29 | Examinations with a scanning electron microscope show that cowpeas that have been stored for a long time readily lose protein when soaked , whereas samples stored without soaking do not lose protein . |
| 30 | 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 . |