Example sentences of "have long [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly there are many difficulties facing Irish studios — but we have long believed that the wholehearted support of local musicians when it comes to making albums would make an enormous , positive difference . |
| 2 | As the House knows , we have long believed that the Community should be open to European countries who want to join and can take on the responsibilities of membership . |
| 3 | Students of human memory have long recognized that performance on a retrieval task tends to be superior when the test context is similar to that experienced during initial training . |
| 4 | Diesel engine manufacturers have long maintained that these are harmless , but recently they have been found to contain polyaromatich hydrocarbons ( PAH ) , which can cause cancer when breathed deeply . |
| 5 | The courts have long insisted that any pecuniary interest disqualifies the decision-maker be he high or low . |
| 6 | Those of us lucky enough to be linguists involved in teacher training have long felt that the potential contribution of linguistics to education is enormous . |
| 7 | Is my right Hon. Friend aware that those of us who have an interest in these matters have long felt that things in tourism are done rather better in Wales than in England ? |
| 8 | We have long argued that the Post Office scheme is detrimental to the survival of townland names . |
| 9 | Ramblers have long argued that the army 's needs should be subjected to independent scrutiny , adding the independent National Parks Review panel had agree with the group . |
| 10 | Standard-setters have long realised that there is a trade-off between objectivity and relevance in accounting information , and on the face of it , unfudgeability is simply a pejorative term for objectivity . |
| 11 | WWF and its mature colleagues in the conservation world have long realised that many of the priority issues with which we are all currently concerned ( rain forest destruction , coastal marine pollution , over-exploitation , loss of diversity ) are issues which have to be tackled in parallel with those of human population increase , extreme poverty , low food production levels , lack of marketable resources and , in a few cases , uncaring , self-centred governments . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the courts have long recognised that , whatever may be the theoretical position , there are far-reaching limitations in principle on the exercise of that jurisdiction . |
| 13 | Many Russian exiles have long suspected that spies had been planted in their midst by the KGB , and for some the advertisements confirmed their darkest fears . |
| 14 | Cytogeneticists have long suspected that these chromosomal anomalies are linked with cancer , but only now has their message been deciphered . |
| 15 | Astronomers have long suspected that flares also produce neutrons that reach the Earth 's orbit , but they lacked the instruments needed to detect them . |
| 16 | In the Persian Gulf Soviet leaders have long demanded that an extensive American naval base in Bahrain be dismantled and argued that no comparable Soviet base exists in this region . |
| 17 | Many of us have long thought that anyone who could lead the Labour Party out of the darkness of 1983 would find leading the country relatively easy — and a task for which , despite all the sneering of the snobbish clique that makes up the political élite in this country , it is not necessary to possess a double first from Oxbridge . |
| 18 | Ask the thousands of FOBs — friends of Bill — why they have long thought that he would one day be a great president and their replies will sooner or later share the same point . |
| 19 | My Lords , I have long thought that the time had come to change the self-imposed judicial rule that forbade any reference to the legislative history of an enactment as an aid to its interpretation . |
| 20 | I have long thought that the hon. Gentleman imagined that we were living in Ethiopia , having listened to some of his speeches about the economy . |
| 21 | But environmentalists have long claimed that the scheme has been underfunded , badly run and above all exploited by the tourist trade . |
| 22 | For instance , people have long known that squeezing lemon juice on sliced fruits prevents them from turning brown , but until recently it was not known why lemon juice has this effect . |
| 23 | England have long known that concessions can be made against no team . |
| 24 | Ecologist editor Nicholas Hildyard commented : " We have long known that World Bank projects bring environmental catastrophe and suffering on a grand scale . |