Example sentences of "been [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had originally been a short par 4 , but had been turned into a long par 3 . |
| 9 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 12 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I think it 's been closed for a long time actually . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |
| 19 | ‘ These events are occurring now because human rights have been violated for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Other diuretics have been known for a long time , especially arsenical compounds of mercury . |
| 22 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 23 | The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | These are called reaves and , while they have been known for a long time , their age , extent and probable purpose have only recently been recognised . |
| 28 | The value of printing a linear document from a database has been appreciated for a long time . |
| 29 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |
| 30 | If it 's a professional job they will have been observed over a long period and their habits and financial status will be known . ’ |