Example sentences of "have long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whether the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or the Stanze of Raphael should be regarded as the culminating effort of modern art , has long been the subject of controversy ’ ; but they both received double asterisks . |
| 2 | Naipaul has long been a reader of Conrad , and Guerrillas can make you think of Nostromo . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The dualistic ambience in literature has long been influential , but has remained controversial , and it is both influential and controversial in these annals of the House of Roth . |
| 5 | If there was ever a time to change things radically that time has long passed . |
| 6 | Systems will simply not change as easily as Shapland and Hobbs seem to hope ; for police society is extremely conservative and masculine in outlook , and has long reflected the low esteem women are given in wider society , as I will describe in more detail in Chapter 4 . |
| 7 | And surely , it can be argued , the understanding of what is to be ordered and who is to be disciplined has long been defined and subject to the practical mastery of the controllers . |
| 8 | I have many examples in my fieldnotes which show this mode of thought to be so ingrained , that even when the possibility of making such a journey ‘ back ’ to basic police work has long since evaporated , the supremacy of the belief still remains : |
| 9 | The Guide has long been seen as CAMRA 's flagship , mixing solid campaigning points with entertaining features , the latest information from the brewing world and Britain 's best pub guide . |
| 10 | Non-evaluative criticism , as propounded by the successive Merton professors , Gardner and Carey , has long been a popular ideal at Oxford . |
| 11 | It has long been common practice to give students isolated passages of poetry or prose , often but not always anonymous , to analyse , discuss , and respond to , in the manner of Richards 's original undertaking . |
| 12 | This is broadly true , and has long distorted the group dynamics of seminars , though I have the sense that things are changing as women become more self-confident ( the arrival in increasing numbers of female mature students has been helpful ) . |
| 13 | Perhaps they once had the full response , but the ‘ hammer , hammer on the hard , high road ’ has long since dinned it out of them . |
| 14 | It has long been established in American universities ; hence the acute consciousness of period , and the rapidity with which , in the state-of-the-art graduate schools and research establishments , critical approaches have followed one another : New Critical , structuralist , poststructuralist , deconstructionist , feminist , Marxist , New Historicist , dialogic . |
| 15 | The effect of all these approaches is to remove ‘ literature ’ , as conventionally defined , canonized , institutionalized , and taught , from the exclusive and isolated position which it has long occupied in the anglophone academy . |
| 16 | The contradiction has long been lived with in practice , and students become adept in faking responses . |
| 17 | The electorate has long since rumbled Tony Benn , Eric Heffer , Dennis Skinner , Ken Livingstone and the rest . |
| 18 | In an interdependent world , the inability of a national state to exercise effective control of its own affairs has long been apparent . |
| 19 | Labour policy has long sought to challenge the Treasury 's dominance in government . |
| 20 | The co-producer is Russell 's wife , Annie , who has long considered Stags And Hens a suitable vehicle for a film : ‘ I badgered Willy into it ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Since Mr Lawson has long been in favour of a stable exchange rate — and since industry has enthusiastically supported him , by expressing its enthusiasm for membership of the European Monetary System — it is ill-placed to argue against an increase in base rates at a time when sterling was threatening to fall below three marks , although the Confederation of British Industry has predictably grumbled that the rise was unnecessary . |
| 23 | HOARDING clothes has long been a British vice . |
| 24 | If anything , they may be relieved to have got off so lightly , given that East Germany 's aversion to a local brand of perestroika and glasnost has long been clear . |
| 25 | Mr Morton has long been rumoured as a possible successor to Sir Bob Reid at British Rail . |
| 26 | The Government has long been accused by politicians and academics of repeatedly changing the way the unemployment figures are counted to reduce the total . |
| 27 | Nature , we learn , has long since sickened and died . |
| 28 | Street children like Manoel now fear more than temporary incarceration at Febem , the Dickensian state orphanage that has long been a synonym for alienation and violence . |
| 29 | But this last is precisely what Mr Lawson has long wanted to do and the Prime Minister absolutely forbidden . |
| 30 | The case for taking this step has long been powerful , and is now overwhelming . |