Example sentences of "have long been [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Wall Street has long been bored with the US budget deficit . |
| 2 | Job evaluation has long been popular in the private sector as a way of formally assessing the relative value of different jobs — and it is frequently used as a basis for deciding pay . |
| 3 | Gairloch has long been renowned as a holiday resort of rare distinction , Victorian visitors regularly patronising the large hotel overlooking the bay and enjoying the quiet seclusion of this favoured backwater . |
| 4 | Prof Wynne Godley , of Cambridge University , who has long been pessimistic about the economy 's future , expects 3.4 million unemployed by the end of this year and 3.6 million by the end of 1994 . |
| 5 | Prof Wynne Godley , of Cambridge University , who has long been pessimistic about the economy 's future , expects 3.4 million unemployed by the end of this year and 3.6 million by the end of 1994 . |
| 6 | Most Conservative opinion had long been opposed to the system whereby a trade union could contribute to the Labour Party a proportion of each member 's subscription , unless the member specially contracted out . |
| 7 | The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities . |
| 8 | Unlike the provincial businessmen represented by Cobden , the financiers of the City of London had long been intimate in the aristocratic circles that dominated Westminster and Whitehall . |
| 9 | The aggressively minded General Conrad von Hötzendorff , Chief of the Austrian General Staff , had long been avid for a pre-emptive war . |
| 10 | Both were directed towards the formalist reading of literary texts , and some anglophone academics tried to minimize the strangeness of French imports by saying that la nouvelle critique was only offering a new version of what had long been familiar in the Anglo-American academy . |
| 11 | She came from a prominent Bristol family of nonconformists and industrialists , where her father had long been active in the abolitionist movement . |
| 12 | The DKP had long been dependent on the East German Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED — ultimately renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) and had suffered as a result of the changes in East Germany ; the ending of financial support from the SED had led to a scaling down of operations . |
| 13 | The links predated the Francoist regime ; the army had long been responsible for the training of footplate , traffic and other staff who entered RENFE through military service ( as they continued to do after the restoration of democracy ) . |
| 14 | Autocratic , powerful and ambitious , he had long been jealous of the Emperor and had aspired to be made a Negus . |
| 15 | ‘ I met with it ’ , Gould recalled , ‘ in various parts of New South Wales , and on the plains of the interior , still it is by no means abundant , and persons who had long been resident in the colony knew little about it . |
| 16 | The volcanic rocks of the island of Madeira ( tufas and volcanic ashes interbedded with basaltic lavas ) have long been subject to the effects of rain and rivers . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , some European companies have long been successful at the world super-company level ( table 3 ) . |
| 18 | Managers in schools have long been involved in the management of change of various kinds and at various levels — particularly in relation to the curriculum or elements of it . |
| 19 | Tools of this kind have long been available in the industry . |
| 20 | The coastal resort of Skegness and Mablethorpe have long been famous for the seaside delights they offer and for many , who do not know East Lindsey well , these may be the only places here that they have heard of . |
| 21 | While the French have long been convinced of the value of massage with natural ingredients in the treatment of cellulite , the British are sometimes sceptical . |
| 22 | Many scientists have long been intrigued by the idea of adding a known toxic substance to water supplies to reduce cavities in teeth . |
| 23 | I HAVE long been impressed by the number of careless references in the Scriptures to the faithful blithely taking it upon themselves to raise houses to the Lord . |
| 24 | Oriental philosophies have long been conscious of the ultimate duality of awareness . |
| 25 | Zapp is the supreme professional , who embodies , albeit comically , those ideals of professionalism that have long been dominant in the North American academy and are becoming so in the British . |
| 26 | In England , a number of reported criminal cases reveal instances of marital rape and women 's organisations have long been aware of the problem . |
| 27 | Industrial managers and behavioural scientists have long been aware of the need to introduce choice and control in the workplace . |
| 28 | CALLS FOR an independent body to monitor the Government 's use of statistics followed two recent cases which attracted widespread criticism , but some academics have long been concerned about the independence of British official statistics . |
| 29 | I have long been concerned about the time lapse from the commissioning of a book to its appearance in the shops . |
| 30 | The Americans have long been eager for the Japanese to help Latin America 's economies , and mused that the Europeans might want to shoulder a degree of responsibility for Africa . |