Example sentences of "there [verb] be a long " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Since then there has been a long decline . |
| 2 | Recently there has been a long ambulance drivers ' strike . |
| 3 | There has been a long debate as to whether Severn Mill was operated as a tide mill , the general opinion now seeming to favour this idea . |
| 4 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 5 | There has been a long , ongoing battle between alternative medical practice and orthodox medicine — with the establishment maintaining the upper hand . |
| 6 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 7 | There has been a long resistance to accepting that , in spite of the logical stringency with which laws in science are formulated , interrelated and tested , their origin has never ceased to be the same . |
| 8 | There has been a long and fruitful interplay between the two branches : Pure Mathematics develops methods used in Applied Mathematics ; Applied Mathematics has in turn raised problems which have ultimately led to the creation of whole areas of Pure Mathematics . |
| 9 | There has been a long and rather pointless debate on this question . |
| 10 | Mr Foster said : ‘ There has been a long period of uncertainty which always causes problems . |
| 11 | Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme . |
| 12 | There had been a long struggle . |
| 13 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 14 | However , there had been a long and consistent course of dealing which was adhered to on this occasion . |
| 15 | There had been a long list of such casualties in Libby 's life , this was just another . |