Example sentences of "[vb base] long been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap . |
| 2 | Gangsters have long been a good source of drama for the filmakers and there 's barely a star in Hollywood who has n't been ‘ mixed up ’ on screen with the mob at some point in his career . |
| 3 | ‘ These schools have long been a closed shop and many have n't been inspected for ages . |
| 4 | I have long been a avid reader of books about islands . |
| 5 | Finally , some 520 million year old teeth found in fossilised form have long been a controversial subject — did they come from an early vertebrate creature ? |
| 6 | Local rates have long been a controversial source of local authority income . |
| 7 | Caricatured images of ‘ natives ’ — African , Asian and Arab — and selective and often fanciful representations of their histories and cultures , reinforced in comics , adventure stories and films , have long been a powerful presence in the official curriculum of British schools ( Mackenzie , 1984 , 1986 ; Klein , 1985 , ; Ahier 1988 ) . |