Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [verb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 2 | Complex adaptations have developed because in certain circumstances the same selection pressure has been maintained over a long period of time . |
| 3 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
| 4 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 5 | This has been realized for a long time , and it is on record that John Dalton analysed the water supply for the firm of Sykes & Co. at Stockport and declared it suitable for the purpose . |
| 6 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 7 | All your behaviour , with the exception of those reflexes that were built into the system , has been acquired over a long period of ad hoc learning . |
| 8 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 9 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 10 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |
| 11 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 12 | The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time . |
| 13 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 14 | It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can . |
| 15 | The value of printing a linear document from a database has been appreciated for a long time . |
| 16 | In cases where a tumour suppressor gene is inactivated , repetitive cellular repair may lead to uncontrolled cell division and malignant transformation ; a putative tumour suppressor gene has been described on the long arm of chromosome 17 . |
| 17 | Passenger manifests are kept for a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine . |
| 19 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 20 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 21 | Can I just draw people 's attention to the very last point which was made in case any one sending large sums of cash through the post office , erm , it , it 's been running for a long time |
| 22 | I think it 's been closed for a long time actually . |
| 23 | you know , that G P's that 's been practising for a long number of years you know er , elderly G P's are probably not as up-to-date on these kind of things as they should be . |