Example sentences of "have long been " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Non-evaluative criticism , as propounded by the successive Merton professors , Gardner and Carey , has long been a popular ideal at Oxford . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The contradiction has long been lived with in practice , and students become adept in faking responses . |
| 10 | In an interdependent world , the inability of a national state to exercise effective control of its own affairs has long been apparent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | HOARDING clothes has long been a British vice . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr Morton has long been rumoured as a possible successor to Sir Bob Reid at British Rail . |
| 16 | The Government has long been accused by politicians and academics of repeatedly changing the way the unemployment figures are counted to reduce the total . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The case for taking this step has long been powerful , and is now overwhelming . |
| 19 | This elementary drawback has long been foreseen , as has the means of avoiding it . |
| 20 | Entry has long been opposed by Margaret Thatcher and her No 10 economic adviser , Sir Alan Walters — resisting the overtures of Nigel Lawson and Sir Geoffrey Howe with the brick-wall response that the pound would enter ‘ when the time is ripe ’ . |
| 21 | Wall Street has long been bored with the US budget deficit . |
| 22 | Sir : The Royal Statistical Society 's concern ( 'Moves to monitor use of statistics by Government' , 9 October ) has long been shared by the social science community in this country . |
| 23 | In France it has long been the practice to build the national side round successful clubs . |
| 24 | Now , it has long been understood that the public utterances of the sovereign to the people of a realm overseas , be it Australia or Grenada , are covered by the advice of her ministers in that realm . |
| 25 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 26 | In India , dowry taking has long been forbidden by law but it persists strongly even in the cities . |
| 27 | Suffolk County Council has long been over-stretched on the conservation side , and comparable houses have suffered from lack of expert advice . |
| 28 | THE Berlin Wall has long been more than the ugliest symbol of Europe 's division . |
| 29 | IT HAS long been a precept at Leicester Rugby Club . |
| 30 | Women 's wisdom has long been feared : Old Women , Witches , Sibyls , Seers . |