Example sentences of "[pron] have long been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 2 | Increasingly they used the principle of partible inheritance ( which had long been characteristic of some other European societies ) , where the estate was divided between the surviving spouse and children . |
| 3 | The donor is Mr James Campbell , of the Kilberry family who have long been experts on piobaireachd . |
| 4 | Quoting Cypress chief T J Rodgers , Electronic Engineering Times adds that the Ross Technology subsidiary could be shuttered if Sun Microsystems Inc does n't pick up the 66MHz HyperSparc chip in a next-generation box — there has long been talk on Wall Street of a reorganisation of Ross . |
| 5 | There has long been controversy over who invented the travellers cheque . |
| 6 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 7 | There had long been bickerings between the monks of the cathedral church at Canterbury and the neighbouring monastery of St Augustine 's just outside the city wall . |
| 8 | There have long been stories of mysterious sounds at sea : haunted eerie calls in the night , mermaids singing , sirens luring sailors on to the rocks . |
| 9 | There have long been stories of human giants in legend and mythology . |
| 10 | There have long been rumours of putting bolts on Bosigran routes where the belays are difficult to arrange . |
| 11 | In reality , like the Visigoths , they had long been neighbours of the Romans . |
| 12 | In the search for a transcendent level of knowledge , it has long been part of human endeavour to enter a symbolic womb of darkness and learn within its space . |