Example sentences of "[noun] has [prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 2 | While Labour needs to think hard about a coherent and realistic policy , to give substance to what is otherwise simply a slogan , there were signs in Inverness of regeneration — and a recognition that Labour has for too long taken its political dominance in Scotland for granted . |
| 3 | The subject of art has for too long been considered by many teachers as a frill , — there it is on the time-table , a compulsory subject ; some schools give it a period a week , some a double period , and some even more . |
| 4 | Concern has for too long been with problems of stylistic chronological placement and historical continuity between and among archaeologically defined units . |
| 5 | This directed graph has a significant property which is common in real tasks : At almost all nodes , the node has at least as many children as parents , and several nodes have more children than parents . |
| 6 | The powerful multiplicity of sexuality has for too long been reduced to the level of the coarse car sticker , the symbol of two feet pointing upwards and two feet pointing downwards . |
| 7 | This dire short-term market squeeze has at least temporarily put paid to the idea that the building society industry is making a graceful adaptation to the 1980s ' deregulation of the financial services market . |
| 8 | This perception continues to prevail , hence , while the bill of lading continues to be the subject of considerable national and international regulation , the charter party has until very recently attracted little regulatory attention . |
| 9 | The most important aspects of the ‘ green Budget ’ are that it will encourage people to act , and it recognises the environmental mantra that energy has for too long been too cheap . |