Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | New enterprises and institutions are not created de novo , out of nothing ; they emerge from a fabric of events which is already complex , which has been long in the weaving , and from which they take their characteristic shape and colour . |
| 2 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 3 | Vision moves to and fro between the vessels , setting up a visual and , if one has been long at sea , an emotional tension between them . |
| 4 | There had been long weeks when he lay sunk in gloom and introspection . |
| 5 | There had been long , bewildering visits from the school attendance officer , from the child welfare people , the police , a probation officer , the police again , a young wife with tears and an older one with a bread knife , and the police yet again . |
| 6 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 7 | Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab . |
| 8 | There had been long lines of farmers and farm workers on both sides . |
| 9 | For example , there have been long delays in hearing juvenile cases in some youth courts , where numbers of court appearances have doubled . |
| 10 | There have been long and fierce arguments , inside television , as to whether , when a play is ‘ directly based on a real-life case ’ , there should be further signals , indicating divergence from the expected norm . |
| 11 | There have been long spells out of work through a mixture of choice and lack of good stuff : ‘ I do n't think there are that many things that one wants to do . ’ |
| 12 | And there have been long term er landlords there . |
| 13 | Erm other places to watch out for in Baysford the work is continuing on David Lane and Southwick Street the crossing there is closed diversions are in place and there have been long delays in the area there so unless you have to I would n't . |
| 14 | There 's been long term sensory deprivation , so it 's not surprising . |
| 15 | And then much of this leeway was made up and the capacity being there er , well the hours of work were getting tackled then , they 'd been longer hours and er I think as a a boy coming out of apprenticeship , er the forty seven hour week had come into being . |
| 16 | They knew from their own and others ' research that there was a diminishing prospect for children returning home once they had been long in care . |
| 17 | It has been long and widely believed that urbanization and industrialization cause large increases in crime . |