Example sentences of "[been] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Within education there has been the long standing view that the individual teacher is the key resource to developing and delivering a high quality service .
2 There had been the long drift through cold spring into hot summer ; the long sinking into the mercies and bossiness of her friends and thence into the arms of the medical profession ; the final humiliation of accepting , because she was too inert to refuse , money from Rachel .
3 It would have been a long story , the warming of friendship and respect between the barrel-chested Iraqi Colonel and the young man from England who had proved he could stalk and kill .
4 Oh it would have been a long while after the war yes .
5 ‘ It has just been a long battle for us all .
6 To a few of us it may seem like only yesterday , but to the Princess , I suspect , it has been a long decade , for she has completed a most extraordinary metamorphosis .
7 Blast , it had been a long night .
8 ‘ It 's been a long night .
9 Phil Farrand says it is brilliant … it has been a long slog and has meant a lot of hard work
10 It 's been a long road back from those dark and confused days , and Pam is grateful for whatever she can achieve these days .
11 ‘ It 's been a long road , ’ said their coach , Toni Szifris , who has guided the nucleus of the team from a group of minis , playing in Portobello , through high school .
12 They both drank , conscious that it had been a long afternoon , and Shelley at least was thirsty .
13 It 's been a long journey .
14 There has been a long resistance to accepting that , in spite of the logical stringency with which laws in science are formulated , interrelated and tested , their origin has never ceased to be the same .
15 Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation .
16 There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army .
17 In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) .
18 It 's been a long drive .
19 It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen .
20 Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while .
21 ‘ It 's been a long day . ’
22 It 's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees , and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it .
23 It 's been a long day .
24 It had been a long day . ’
25 He then telephoned Nigel 's relations for me , for which I was most grateful — it had been a long day .
26 ‘ I know it 's been a long day but I want you to drive to Sion tonight .
27 It had been a long day — twelve hours with Mobuto , eight of those in the United Nations building where Mobuto and his entourage had spent the day .
28 It had been a long day .
29 It 's been a long day .
30 It 's been a long day .
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