Example sentences of "[vb past] long been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eels , speared through their gills on an eel stick , had long been standard rent in the Fens and Somerset Levels . |
| 2 | No doubt there had long been extreme Gregorians who would have liked to abolish the homage of ecclesiastical landholders for ecclesiastical lands . |
| 3 | His design of mill may have been original , but others had long been growing rape-seed in East Anglia and milling rape-seed around London . |
| 4 | Likewise , in south Yorkshire , the cutlery factors and nailchapmen started in a modest way from the local ranks of metalworker-farmers whose surnames had long been characteristic ones in the area . |
| 5 | 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 . |