Example sentences of "which had for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that collapse , the European Social Democratic parties , which had for so long bravely vowed to prevent war between their respective States , lined up with the belligerents ; the second International collapsed , another casualty of the trenches of northern France . |
| 2 | A disciplined , regular army was about to drive the gunmen from streets which had for so long been ruled by rival guerrillas exacting their own terrible day-to-day justice . |
| 3 | Fortunately , the answer lay close at hand , in that sense of the redeeming power of personal example which had for so long been part of the mental furniture of the British middle classes . |
| 4 | The belief in Britain 's power to do good in the world , which had for so long underpinned popular internationalism , no longer seemed tenable . |
| 5 | The London theatres , which had for so long been a particular thorn in the side of Puritan moralists such as William Prynne , were closed down at the outbreak of the civil war and remained shut until the Restoration . |
| 6 | Charles II took a personal interest it , matters relating to mining and it is reported that he united the old Mines Royal and the Soc. of Mineral & Battery Works which had for so long run as separate enterprises . |
| 7 | Mounted on a white horse , he rode into the city which had for so long defied and denied him . |
| 8 | For example , the relationship between education and economic need — which had for long been a matter of concern in Britain and the object of telling comparisons with Germany and the USA — was never fundamentally tackled [ Robbins , 1963 ] . |
| 9 | In key respects the views of Whitehall coincided with those of the Central Electricity Board , which had for long felt that its own , indirect control of power station construction was inadequate . |