Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] a 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 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 17 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 18 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 19 | If it 's a professional job they will have been observed over a long period and their habits and financial status will be known . ’ |
| 20 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 21 | Mass is celebrated here at midday , the church having been reconsecrated after a long deconsecration period . |
| 22 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 23 | The decision was reported to have been reached after a long and tense debate in which a more moderate current , headed by the Imam Abdelkader al-Hachani , a mining engineer in his early thirties , argued in favour of participation as a necessary step towards the creation of an Islamic state . |
| 24 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 25 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 26 | He had been gone for a long time . |
| 27 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 28 | There they had been questioned for a long time , in a way which — Alice could see , watching Bert 's face as he told the tale — had not only impressed but sobered the two . |
| 29 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 30 | It had originally been a short par 4 , but had been turned into a long par 3 . |