Example sentences of "has long been recognised " in BNC.

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1 Preventing the pollution of drinking water by untreated human excrement , for example , has long been recognised as a basic health concern .
2 It has long been recognised that the human factor is just as significant an influence on rates of erosion as physical features , as has been highlighted by a study of potential versus actual erosion in Zimbabwe by Whitlow ( 1988 ) .
3 As for the second , it has long been recognised that successful institutions are distinguished by clear aims .
4 It is unlikely that any report in the UK would be so brutally honest , but it accurately describes our situation , except that the inadequate nature of our provision for many students has long been recognised by many educators , and only becomes important to others through economic necessity .
5 Scientists can readily account for physical phenomena such as the tides , but the Moon 's sway over human and animal behaviour has long been recognised without any satisfactory explanation .
6 Richard Hickox has long been recognised as an outstanding conductor and trainer of choirs , and here his usual high standards of excellence .
7 After more than a hundred years of the recognition of industrial picketing as a democratic mechanism the official Code of Practice issued by the Department of Employment says : ‘ There is no legal ‘ right to picket ’ as such but peaceful picketing has long been recognised as lawful . ’
8 It has long been recognised that the Commission has required its own independent powers to review and , if necessary , prohibit those takeovers which may impede or distort competition in the single market .
9 ‘ Establishment ’ today means very little outside the sphere of the purely formal and ceremonial and the devotion of the time of Parliament to the tedious and time-consuming task of regulating the affairs of the Church of England has long been recognised as anachronistic .
10 The significance of Labour 's advance has long been recognised .
11 The description ‘ schizotypal ’ is really just a modern equivalent of the older one , ‘ schizoid ’ , which has long been recognised as having an affinity with schizophrenia .
12 It has long been recognised , however , that international comparisons of industrial relations which are confined to the national level may produce misleading results because of the possible dominance of one or more particular industries within a given country .
13 It has long been recognised that the ratio of doctors to population in the United Kingdom , at 1 to 562 , is the second lowest in western Europe , where the average is 1 to 338 .
14 Although the role of magnetic field structures both as channels for energy supply and for containing hot plasma has long been recognised , it seems that Yohkoh may allow a detailed understanding of some processes involved .
15 It has long been recognised that maternity services should respond more to the emotional needs of its female consumers , and there are radical midwives such as Caroline Flint who are working to change today 's medicalisation of pregnancy .
16 It has long been recognised that expressions such as to pull someone 's leg , to have a bee in one 's bonnet , to kick the bucket , to cook someone 's goose , to be off one 's rocker , round the bend , up the creek , etc. are semantically peculiar .
17 Nevertheless it has long been recognised that , whatever may be the theoretical position , there are far-reaching limitations in principle on the exercise of that jurisdiction .
18 But the decisions referred to above are helpful to demonstrate that both at law and in equity it has long been recognised that an influence may be subtle , insidious , pervasive and where religious beliefs are involved especially powerful .
19 The tubercle bacillus has long been recognised to exist in various guises and seems able to exist interchangeably with and without its cell wall .
20 In the private sector the quality of leadership has long been recognised as a key factor affecting organisational performance .
21 Cyclic sedimentation has long been recognised here , with the succession at the east end of the island largely marine , and that at the west end largely continental .
22 Credit transfer , or ‘ exemption ’ as it is sometimes called , has long been recognised as part of SCOTVEC 's provision .
23 The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( LCCI ) Examinations Board has long been recognised as the major international awarding body for secretarial qualifications .
24 Franchising has long been recognised by economists as a method of improving efficiency in the provision of goods and services in situations where ( for a variety of reasons ) it is not possible to establish a competitive market .
25 Where the task involves a number of choices , i.e. there is a choice reaction time , it has long been recognised that reaction time rose progressively with the number of possible choices , but why and to what extent where not understood .
26 ‘ Hepatitis B has long been recognised as a risk to healthcare workers and is now considered by many authorities to be the most important infectious occupational disease , and yet we are still failing our workers , ’ she said .
27 VT has long been recognised as a complication of severe bradyarrhythmias , and less commonly can be the cause of syncope and death in patients with complete atrioventricular block or sinus node dysfunction .
28 Amenorrhoea with anovulation has long been recognised as invariable in anorexia nervosa ( decreased libido and low testosterone are the equivalent in the male ) .
29 Thirdly , it has long been recognised that written documents produced in the past often have a special quality , which is not possessed by school textbooks or the writings of later historians .
30 It has long been recognised that the proper and effective investigation of child abuse requires co-operation between those agencies with child care responsibilities .
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