Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] for 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 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
| 3 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 6 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 9 | The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can . |
| 12 | The value of printing a linear document from a database has been appreciated for a long time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | He had been gone for a long time . |
| 19 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 23 | As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch . |
| 24 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 25 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 26 | I 'm sure that if he had said something he never have betrayed the pain he had been guarding for a long time . |
| 27 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 28 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 29 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 30 | Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time . |