Example sentences of "that has long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Street children like Manoel now fear more than temporary incarceration at Febem , the Dickensian state orphanage that has long been a synonym for alienation and violence . |
| 2 | It is on the site of the old Malswick Halt , which was once part of the Newent to Gloucester Railway , another industrial relic that has long disappeared . |
| 3 | What to do — of anything — about the Italian Connection is a problem that has long perplexed the top administrators : some see it as a cancer at the heart of rugby ; others as a storm in a teacup of no consequence to what they see as larger and more insidious threat to amateurism in England and the rest of the ‘ Big Eight ’ . |
| 4 | With their new album there 's enthusiastic talk of breaking the American market that has long eluded them . |
| 5 | The effects of observers ' values and predispositions on their perceptions , descriptions , and analyses of ethnographic reality is , of course , an issue that has long been a matter of explicit concern to anthropologists . |
| 6 | Both of these recent releases from the duo 's Threshold House label tinker with material that has long since gone out of print in an attempt to create something else . |
| 7 | The different sense of ‘ the functions of crime ’ — that sometimes what is defined as crime includes activities that some may regard as useful and beneficial — relates to an issue that has long confronted socialists : what is the status of crime and criminals under capitalism ? |
| 8 | There is a wind of change blowing through the corporate environment these days , one that has long been predicted but that few expected to actually see . |
| 9 | The ability to let go of parts of our past , of parts of ourselves , of fantasies , of dreams that are no longer relevant , of pain that has long since served its purpose , is an essential part of our capacity to grieve and to recreate ourselves . |
| 10 | But you never know , it may be tat all at once you recognise something of yourself that has long been buried in your subconscious . |
| 11 | and ‘ beyond some point that has long been surpassed in crowded industrial societies , conditions of use tend to deteriorate as use becomes more widespread ’ ( pp. 2–3 ) . |
| 12 | Drafix CAD is an MS-DOS based CAD drawing package that has long been the choice of users who have been unwilling to pay the price demanded for the industry standard — AutoCad . |
| 13 | In a sense that has long been the case , since it has generally been supposed that turbulent flows are contained within a deterministic set of equations — the Navier-Stokes and continuity equations . |