Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 2 | He thought again about how the changes which had occurred in the Southern Capital , to which Surere had now been exposed after so long away , might have affected such an inflexible heart . |
| 3 | I was astonished by the power with which my German crashed out of me , as if in millennial anger at having been silenced for so long . |
| 4 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 5 | Few systems are closed for so long : bromeliads , epiphytes of the Neotropics , with ‘ tanks ’ of up to 2 litres can contain up to seven species of algae , as well as bacteria , protozoa , rotifers , flatworms , oligochaetes and other invertebrates such as crabs , insect larvae etc. as well as tadpoles . |
| 6 | It is the occupational disease of widowhood , Alida had long ago decided , they are none of them self-sufficient , they have been cushioned for so long they can not keep silent or rely upon themselves . |
| 7 | Because devaluation has been postponed for so long , the shock to living standards would rattle many civil servants ( though export-oriented farmers would be better off ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Dr Traber added that ‘ for both the media and the theologians , the problem of how to see the world with new eyes should be tackled first by a removal of ideological blinkers which have been worn for so long . ’ |
| 9 | There was commotion in the hall when it was realized that Lenin 's heir had been adulated for so long against Lenin 's own better judgment . |
| 10 | ‘ This represents a constant haemorrhage of money from the business which can only be sustained for so long , ’ he said . |
| 11 | 8.4 If at any time is at default in performance or observance of any of its obligations under this Agreement , shall be entitled for so long as the default continues , but without prejudice to any other rights under this Agreement , to withhold delivery of the Licensed Software from notwithstanding that orders for the Licensed Software have been accepted by . |
| 12 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 13 | ‘ Change comes slow when people have been repressed for so long . |
| 14 | Why has the idea been resisted for so long ? |
| 15 | Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline . |
| 16 | And really , in spite of the quartet 's realised commercial capabilities , this cunning reissue proves precisely why they were ignored for so long . |
| 17 | And she cried out as a cascade of fireworks seemed to explode deep within her , before their bodies , now moving in perfect unison , recaptured the fierce , tumultuous pleasure they had always shared in the past — the total consummation which she had been denied for so long . |
| 18 | So mind you , if you your confidence is knocked for so long yo you only |
| 19 | The fact that the " adornment " theory was entertained for so long deserves some explanation and its appropriateness can not be altogether dismissed in the case of " artificial " styles cultivated by such Renaissance mannerists as Sidney and Lyly . |
| 20 | The front quad of New College , Oxford illustrates clearly the usual quadrangle method of Medieval layout which was retained for so long by those universities . |
| 21 | There were n't many secrets in that neighbourhood and it is a wonder that Mud 's own was kept for so long . |