Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] long been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had long been a believer in voluntary euthanasia , and my mother 's experience strengthened it ; for to me what matters most is not the length of a person 's life but its quality , and that death , when it comes , should have dignity . |
| 2 | I have long been a professor in the University Of Life . |
| 3 | He decided to return to England and try his hand at photography , which had long been a hobby of his . |
| 4 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 5 | He himself had long been a specialist in such relief when he would instantly brighten faces during his favourite tours of prisons , orphanages and nursing homes . |
| 6 | THE seeds of popular revolt that appear to be taking root across Romania were sown last Thursday in the north-western town of Timisoara when President Nicolae Ceausescu 's security forces moved to evict the Protestant pastor , Laszlo Tokes , who has long been a thorn in the side of the regime . |
| 7 | He is a shy , gentle innocent untouched by any selfish thoughts or feelings , who has long been a pupil of Mr Pecksniff |
| 8 | There has long been a tradition of separating these ‘ special ’ clinics from the rest of the hospital , and many of them still go under euphemistic titles such as ‘ Martha and Luke ’ clinic , James Pringle House , or ‘ Lydia ’ clinic . |
| 9 | There has long been a tradition of skilled furniture-making in the island , making copies of British and French pieces . |
| 10 | There has long been a consensus that this is true of the Lands Tribunal . |
| 11 | Advances in medical knowledge might lead to the conclusion that some are simply too dangerous : there has long been a debate about the status of boxing , with increasing knowledge of the risks of brain damage to boxers . |
| 12 | The west-coast defences given a structure and a system of manning , they moved inland to the key sites at crossroads or ford or defile where , usually , there had long been a hill-fort or an earthwork of some kind . |
| 13 | But there had long been a feeling that Hawaii , birthplace of surfing and home of the biggest waves , should have that honour by right . |
| 14 | They 've long been a part of the river 's past . |
| 15 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 16 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 17 | Although insignificant on the map , it has long been a magnet drawing folk from the Dales on repeated visits ; latterly there has been a growing influx of tourists and walkers from outside the county to see the magnificent waterfall of Hardraw Force . |
| 18 | But it has long been a mystery to me why students find proofs to be a mystery , and Solow has the answer : it 's not enough to tell them ‘ a proof is a sequence of logical steps ’ . |
| 19 | It has long been a house . |
| 20 | IT HAS long been a precept at Leicester Rugby Club . |
| 21 | declared , ‘ It has long been a rule well established ( the origin of it I do not recollect ) that you can not get discovery except from a party to your action . |
| 22 | It had long been a nonsense . |
| 23 | It had long been a tradition for Roman emperors to claim descent from the gods , and on that basis to claim godhood for themselves as well . |
| 24 | He had long been a widower . |
| 25 | It 's long been a custom to knock farmers and the high subsidies that many of them receive . |