Example sentences of "has 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 . |