Example sentences of "it has long [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Standard commentary column enthused again about the benefits that would accrue to the town ; ‘ people of means and leisure will take up residence in the district ; it has long been said that Henley needed further attractions and the present move is assuredly one in the right direction ’ . |
| 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 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It has long been recognised that the proper and effective investigation of child abuse requires co-operation between those agencies with child care responsibilities . |
| 14 | It has long been recognised by the courts that the protection of business secrets is a legitimate ground for the imposition of restrictions on persons to whom such secrets have been disclosed . |
| 15 | Most theories of rhythm have concentrated on metre and metricality , and while it has long been recognised that the rhythms of the spoken language give variety to what occurs within a given metre , the functioning of these rhythms in poetry has never been adequately investigated . |
| 16 | It has long been recognised that women who devote years of their lives to bringing up children lose out in the pension stakes . |
| 17 | It has long been acknowledged that the Chardonnay in le Mesnil-sur-Oger is a special clone of exceptional quality and character . |
| 18 | It has long been accepted that , even in countries such as these , the field of human rights and the administration of justice are matters in which the government has no right to interfere , and there are even mechanisms where a non-national body may pronounce on national decisions , such as the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg . |
| 19 | As we have seen , it has long been accepted that there is a need for an hierarchical layout of the road system in order to ensure that the type of traffic flowing on each type of road is appropriate for that road . |
| 20 | It has long been accepted that this exclusive jurisdiction prevents the courts of the land from dealing initially with issues falling to be decided by the visitor , and prevent an appeal from the visitor to those courts . |
| 21 | It has long been accepted that people make jokes about what frightens them and that groups who feel oppressed use humour as a way of releasing negative feelings to those in power . |
| 22 | Moreover , it has long been accepted that repairing covenants do not require the covenantor to renew the whole property or modernise an elderly and decaying building . |
| 23 | Through current vital statistics or special studies conducted in statistically more developed countries it has long been observed and well demonstrated that childbearing patterns , such as maternal age , parity and the interval between consecutive births have a characteristic effect upon the probability that a child will survive infancy and early childhood . |
| 24 | This requires diagnostic skills normally associated with doctors , but it has long been suspected that this responsibility is generally left entirely to the DN , so this section begins with an analysis of DN responses to the question : ‘ Who decided on current treatment ? ’ before examining that treatment . |
| 25 | Although the fish are probably using water currents , the sun or a magnetic sense to help them achieve this feat , it has long been suspected that smell is also involved . |
| 26 | It has long been recognized that reading can provide young pupils with the chance to develop a general ‘ feel for the language ’ . |
| 27 | It has long been recognized that a variety of structural divisions have generated more or less distinct cultures and sub-cultures , whether based on class divisions , age , gender or religion . |
| 28 | IT has long been recognized that the electrical conductivity of the lower continental crust is anomalously high . |
| 29 | It has long been recognized in the United States that there are difficulties in getting old agencies to implement new policies . |
| 30 | It has long been recognized that Pausanias gave a Herodotean dress and added some comments of his own to what must ultimately be a third-century B.C. account of the Celtic attack ( O. Regenbogen , P.-W. , s.v . |