Example sentences of "it [vb -s] long been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 2 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 3 | Although insignificant on the map , it has long been a magnet drawing folk from the Dales on repeated visits ; latterly there has been a growing influx of tourists and walkers from outside the county to see the magnificent waterfall of Hardraw Force . |
| 4 | But it has long been a mystery to me why students find proofs to be a mystery , and Solow has the answer : it 's not enough to tell them ‘ a proof is a sequence of logical steps ’ . |
| 5 | It has long been a house . |
| 6 | IT HAS long been a precept at Leicester Rugby Club . |
| 7 | declared , ‘ It has long been a rule well established ( the origin of it I do not recollect ) that you can not get discovery except from a party to your action . |
| 8 | ‘ It has long been the law that when a man pleads guilty to an indictment the trial judge can permit him to change his plea to not guilty at any time before the case is finally disposed of by sentence or otherwise . |
| 9 | In answer to a Parliamentary Question , he said that where , following a successful challenge in the courts , retrospective legislation is introduced to restore the previous understanding of the law , it has long been the Government 's policy that the successful litigant should not be deprived of the benefit of the court judgment in his favour . |
| 10 | It has long been the case that the fact of winning is far more important than the manner of doing so , and since they have found a winning formula they have a powerful argument for keeping it , especially now that the financial rewards are considerable . |
| 11 | It has long been the case that where a company is would up by the court , the liquidation is deemed to commence at the date of presentation of the petition . |
| 12 | In France it has long been the practice to build the national side round successful clubs . |
| 13 | The duty to carry out certain services is imposed on local authorities and as such services are of a nature affecting the whole of the country , for example , the police , or trunk roads , it has long been the practice for Central Government to assist the local authority financially . |
| 14 | Apart from short leases , it has long been the practice for business tenancies to provide expressly for insurance of premises against fire and other damage . |
| 15 | It has long been the view of central government that these forecasts are much more accurate if they are made at a local rather than at a national level ( Hammond , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | It has long been an axiom of the Labour Party that MacDonald 's actions in 1931 marked him as a traitor to the cause . |
| 17 | The search for training which fits this description in the management of education is hindered in two ways : it has long been an area for tension between theorists and practitioners and it has from time to time been exposed to management models from fields where practice and purpose are very different from those of education . |
| 18 | It 's long been a custom to knock farmers and the high subsidies that many of them receive . |