Example sentences of "[vb -s] long [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might well be argued that the USM , now containing some 900 companies with a market capitalisation of less than £50m , has long outlived it usefulness . |
| 2 | ‘ One has long made a habit of beheading his wife at intervals in what is now my study : the other , a lady named Madam Sharpe , drops rings and other small objects into a china basin in my dressing room … . |
| 3 | Off the pitch , Palmer has long made his mark . |
| 4 | While it might seem very odd that a museum which is home to such Rembrandt masterpieces as the ‘ Jewish bride ’ , the ‘ Academy lesson of Dr Deyman ’ , the ‘ Night watch ’ and the ‘ Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul ’ , would allocate the funds for a much less impressive work , the Rijksmuseum has long made Rembrandt purchases a priority . |
| 5 | The other half can most conveniently be received in lire ( cash please ) by William Fosdyke , an Englishman who has long made his home in Mondano and who has certain bills to discharge in relation to the property . |
| 6 | The government has long made it clear that sterling would enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism during stage one of economic and monetary union which began in July ; it has now done so at the earliest appropriate time . |
| 7 | Mr Savoy , who is based at the Andean Explorers and Ocean Sailing Club in Reno , Nevada , has long suspected that ancient man had far more trans-oceanic contacts than most orthodox historians accept . |
| 8 | ‘ Science has finally confirmed what many a mere male has long suspected — that the troubles of the world are women 's fault , and if there were fewer of them , things would get on a whole lot better . |
| 9 | Something akin to the contemporary pattern of hooliganism has long existed in Glasgow as a result of Irish Catholic immigration and militant working-class Scottish Protestantism . |
| 10 | Though it has long existed , it has spread wider as the Japanese economy has matured and become more open to competition , especially from overseas . |
| 11 | MICHAEL Heseltine was rewarded yesterday for four weeks of dynamic and effective campaigning by being appointed Trade and Industry Secretary , the Cabinet job he has long coveted . |
| 12 | Its president , Karl Otto Pöhl , has long believed that his first and only duty is to keep inflation low in Germany . |
| 13 | Yachting World has long believed sailing to be one of the principal sports in which women can compete directly with men , particularly as , in sailing , brain and not just brawn is of the essence . |
| 14 | The Conservative government has long believed that ( excessive ) ‘ public expenditure is at the heart of Britain 's economic difficulties ’ ( HMSO 1979 ) . |
| 15 | The lengthy section in the same report on the persecution of the Jews in Germany began by stating that what was currently taking place was the ‘ irresistible extermination of a minority ’ , comparable to the genocide against the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War but carried out in Germany against the Jews ‘ more slowly and in more planned fashion ’ , adding accurately that ‘ in reality a lawless situation has long prevailed , through which every act of force against the Jewish minority is sanctioned ’ . |
| 16 | Nationalism , too , has long hampered progress . |
| 17 | Oxford Polytechnic 's Modular Course has long accepted this conclusion . |
| 18 | The present proposals , which SAVE has long opposed , no longer include a massive tower block , but involve building over ancient alleys and replacing a delightful mixture of frontages with a single , monolithic block , much more bulky than the buildings now on the site . |
| 19 | Mr Heseltine , whose challenge to Mrs Thatcher put Mr Major into Downing Street , has got the job he has long desired . |
| 20 | The extent to which such rights might justifiably embrace ideas unrelated to government or public affairs , ideas of no value at all , or cloaked in images of a sexual or violent nature , has long exercised the finest minds not only in American jurisprudence , but in Europe and the Commonwealth as well . |
| 21 | But this last is precisely what Mr Lawson has long wanted to do and the Prime Minister absolutely forbidden . |
| 22 | A Separate staffs , households , budgets and agendas are what the princess has long wanted to make her a royal in her own right . |
| 23 | It has long wanted recognition as a great power , especially among its Asian neighbours . |
| 24 | General Atomics , based in San Diego , has floated a plan for a $1.5 billion helium-cooled reactor — a novel design it has long wanted to build . |
| 25 | A general system of gardening founded on experience is a work of which the public has long stood in need . |
| 26 | Switzerland has long relied on Italian and Spanish workers . |
| 27 | The DFG has long realised the shortcomings of the normal 1-year grant : it does not give enough resources and security to build up a substantial group or programme in a particular area . |
| 28 | The government has long favoured a system of loans , but recognising that the complete replacement of grants by loans would arouse considerable opposition , they are introducing a mixed system . |
| 29 | Aldercine Hodson , who has long felt that Medau 's possibilities were under-exploited and that it could be developed , for instance , as a valuable coaching-aid in sport , tells the following story , which she thinks illustrates her point and makes Medau News . |
| 30 | The industrial relations literature has long noted that high levels of membership are ‘ predominantly sustained by informal group pressures from workmates ’ ( Brown and Wadhwani , 1990 , p. 14 ) . |