Example sentences of "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 | Lead has long been used by man and its toxic properties have long been recognised . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | As for the second , it has long been recognised that successful institutions are distinguished by clear aims . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Richard Hickox has long been recognised as an outstanding conductor and trainer of choirs , and here his usual high standards of excellence . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The general benefits of encouraging cycling have long been recognised . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | The problems of London 's hospital and community services have long been recognised . |
| 13 | The significance of Labour 's advance has long been recognised . |
| 14 | The latter point has of course long been recognised in academic psychology and from the 1950s onwards considerable effort was expended attempting to identify the unique features of creativity . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It has , however , long been recognised that the court can exercise jurisdiction in personam against an individual present in England or capable of being made a party to English proceedings in cases in which Equity so requires , even where the subject matter is foreign immovable property . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , even before the Act of 1989 made the distinction clear for all to see , it had long been recognised that wardship was only machinery and that the court 's inherent jurisdiction could be exercised whether or not the child was a ward : see , for example , In re L. ( An Infant ) [ 1968 ] P. 119 , 157 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The tubercle bacillus has long been recognised to exist in various guises and seems able to exist interchangeably with and without its cell wall . |
| 26 | The problems identified here of delay , cost and complexity have long been recognised as requiring to be redressed . |
| 27 | In the private sector the quality of leadership has long been recognised as a key factor affecting organisational performance . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Two particular contracts relating to goods have long been recognised by the law , one of bailment and one of sale . |
| 30 | Credit transfer , or ‘ exemption ’ as it is sometimes called , has long been recognised as part of SCOTVEC 's provision . |