Example sentences of "had long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen O ‘ Malley , though she had long retired , was a wonderful teacher too . |
| 2 | As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve . |
| 3 | These modes of thought are so deeply embedded in the collective conscious that ten years after the amalgamations , when the chief constable ( from the south ) replaced the flat cap with helmets , a number of ex-city men could not discuss the impending change without exhibiting distress and described this event as being something of an Armageddon , even though the expensive guard-style cap of the pre-amalgamation days had long since given way to what was always derided as ‘ a cheap and nasty alternative ’ . |
| 4 | Here 's to you , toe , she said , raising her long clear glass of white wine and mineral water , where the ice cubes had long since melted . |
| 5 | All landmarks that he knew had long since sunk out of sight beyond the rise . |
| 6 | Sometimes they were misty and abstract , especially when one talked intimately of the past , of subjects he had long forgotten — or wanted to forget — awakening memories — nightmares ? — from deep within . |
| 7 | Gillian had long ago learned to look after herself . |
| 8 | But they had long since agreed that there was nowhere to touch the English countryside . |
| 9 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 10 | It was the sort of route the British had long been anxious to create , an all-red one , passing through either British-owned , British-run or British-controlled territory . |
| 11 | Both were directed towards the formalist reading of literary texts , and some anglophone academics tried to minimize the strangeness of French imports by saying that la nouvelle critique was only offering a new version of what had long been familiar in the Anglo-American academy . |
| 12 | At that time hardly anyone but Winters would have named Williams in the same breath as Eliot , and it is characteristic of Winters 's perversity ( or his independence ) that thirty years later , when it had become usual to set Williams up against Eliot , Winters 's opinion of Williams had long been much less favourable . |
| 13 | The Dutch administration had long seen the need for consular representation in Jedda , the port of Mecca , where the security , health and transport of large numbers of Indonesian pilgrims could be supervised by the Batavian authorities . |
| 14 | In Indian famines of which he had long experience , only landless labourers and smaller cultivators — ‘ the submerged tenth ’ — needed relief . |
| 15 | In many ways , then , it seemed that the pressure of welfare policy and social planning had indeed led both to greater equality and to more diffused prosperity as pioneers like Beveridge and theorists like Titmus had long forecast . |
| 16 | Radical plans to remodel the education system , especially anything which resembled the undermining of the comprehensive secondary schools against which Tories had long since railed , were scrapped . |
| 17 | The NHS had long become a totem of bipartisan welfare provision , Bevan 's conflict with the BMA long forgotten . |
| 18 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 19 | Britain 's role in the world , which had generated a series of transient late-imperial crises between 1956 to 1982 , remained decidedly obscure , as Dean Acheson , Nicholas Henderson , and others had long forecast . |
| 20 | He had long shown traces of absent-mindedness . |
| 21 | The sudden chill of isolation which Britain felt in a hostile world , and the thrill of Dominion contingents serving alongside troops from ‘ home ’ , raised in new form what had long been a nagging conundrum — that the outlying parts of the Empire which Britain defended bore no appreciable share of the burden , precisely because of the fundamental political syllogism : no taxation without representation ; no representation without common responsibility ; no common responsibility without sacrifice of separate independence . |
| 22 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 23 | By the 1960s the Regal had long since had its day . |
| 24 | Within the Conservative party , particularly among local activists and MPs , there had long been numerous critics of the nationalized industries and advocates of a more market-orientated economy . |
| 25 | The Rosenblooms had long known that they could take her with them anywhere in society . |
| 26 | They kept their heads down in their books though they had long ceased to study , unwilling to catch his eye or even to breathe loudly . |
| 27 | My nose had long since lost all feeling and I massaged it back into life . |
| 28 | The government had long preferred these white ‘ aliens ’ ( with these low social costs ) to Commonwealth immigrants ( for example in 1969 the number of work permits issued to aliens was 67,788 compared to 3,512 vouchers for Commonwealth citizens ) . |
| 29 | Charles had long been interested in architecture — he had grown up with beautiful buildings and visited hundreds more all over the world ; he had read extensively on the subject and , by the very nature of the job , had seen a multitude of buildings , especially in the inner cities , that not only looked ghastly , but that people clearly found ghastly to live in . |
| 30 | In another area , he had long cherished a dream to provide some sort of community service for young people in this country . |