Example sentences of "have long been [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As for the second , it has long been recognised that successful institutions are distinguished by clear aims .
2 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 .
3 It has long been known that amphibian skin contains strong chemicals .
4 It has long been known that skilled smallholders , owning their own plots of land , can produce very much more from an acre than large-scale farmers with labourers who can not possibly have the same dedication .
5 It has long been known that raw , unrotted FYM does not produce a quick response in crops because the bacteria have to work so hard to break it down , and that fresh pig or poultry dung is too ‘ hot ’ for young plants .
6 It has long been known that pernicious anaemia predisposes to development of gastric adenocarcinoma .
7 It has long been known that phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency exhibits a wide and continuous range of clinical and biochemical severity , varying from a symptomless disorder with phenylalanine accumulation only just greater than in obligate heterozygotes to a severely handicapping condition with plasma phenylalanine concentrations over 20 times normal .
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