Example sentences of "long been [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 2 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 3 | The divine has long been made an intimate participant in male experiences of violence , in war and in political martyrdom . |
| 4 | As no man can serve two masters we had long been told no wise general tries to fight on two fronts . |
| 5 | Histamine has long been considered a putative mediator of the gastric acid secretory response to ethanol . |