Example sentences of "long been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eels , speared through their gills on an eel stick , had long been standard rent in the Fens and Somerset Levels . |
| 2 | ( Although a famous novelist has recently garnered considerable publicity for memorizing his interviews , this has long been standard practice for many sociologists . ) ’ |
| 3 | Unlike the Koran , however , the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings . |
| 4 | His design of mill may have been original , but others had long been growing rape-seed in East Anglia and milling rape-seed around London . |
| 5 | It has long been common practice to give students isolated passages of poetry or prose , often but not always anonymous , to analyse , discuss , and respond to , in the manner of Richards 's original undertaking . |
| 6 | Primroses in their various guises have long been popular garden plants . |