Example sentences of "[noun sg] have long been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NCR Corp has long been interested in offering a high degree of fault-tolerance on its computers , and its final line of mainframes , the 9800s , were claimed to be fault-tolerant . |
| 2 | The dualistic ambience in literature has long been influential , but has remained controversial , and it is both influential and controversial in these annals of the House of Roth . |
| 3 | Organ jazz has long been club-trendy , but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and John Patton . |
| 4 | The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities . |
| 5 | The British attitude had long been clear : the 1951 Conservative government had continued to follow the line laid down by the previous Labour foreign minister , Ernest Bevin , who said in the House of Commons in November 1950 that Britain preferred an expansion of the Treaty of Brussels to serve as the basis of military cooperation within NATO , but would not object to the EDC were it to be established . |
| 6 | Theology had long been familiar with this kind of argument , and had on occasion made very extensive use of it . |
| 7 | Teachers in the independent sector have long been used to doing this . |
| 8 | Unlike the Koran , however , the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings . |
| 9 | Having come to the village with certain expectations they may only see what they expect to find and , since the local working population has long been used to avoiding overt conflict in the face of those who have the capacity to create trouble for them , the superficial calm of village life may remain . |
| 10 | Most Conservative opinion had long been opposed to the system whereby a trade union could contribute to the Labour Party a proportion of each member 's subscription , unless the member specially contracted out . |
| 11 | That is why meat has long been such a symbol of worldly power . |
| 12 | The Magistrate had long been interested in Lucy but not because Cupid had at last managed to lodge an arrow in his stony heart . |
| 13 | The South African economy has long been dependent on minerals , especially gold . |
| 14 | She came from a prominent Bristol family of nonconformists and industrialists , where her father had long been active in the abolitionist movement . |
| 15 | The NAP has long been controversial , thanks largely to its practice of recruiting members through group psychotherapy and to its alliances with figures as diverse as the neo-fascist Lyndon LaRouche and the Reverend Al Sharpton . |
| 16 | The BFI has long been overdue a public trial and major clear-out with several pretentious posteriors needing kicking out of its West End headquarters . |
| 17 | Because merchants paid enormous sums for the right to sell vodka , the imperial government had long been prepared to overlook their chicanery at the point of sale . |
| 18 | The links predated the Francoist regime ; the army had long been responsible for the training of footplate , traffic and other staff who entered RENFE through military service ( as they continued to do after the restoration of democracy ) . |
| 19 | This silence had long been intolerable when Jim broke it , saying to Jake Endo , ‘ Uh , how did ‘ Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree , Which Stands Near the Lake of Easthwaite , on a Desolate Part of the Shore , Commanding a Beautiful Prospect ’ do ? ’ |
| 20 | Powers for house improvement had long been available , local authorities being enabled to improve council housing and give discretionary grants to private owners for improvement of individual properties . |
| 21 | Job evaluation has long been popular in the private sector as a way of formally assessing the relative value of different jobs — and it is frequently used as a basis for deciding pay . |
| 22 | This recognition of the " blurred roles " of teachers and librarians , and of the importance of providing opportunities for those who wish to gain an understanding of and professional accreditation in both professions , has long been the case at school level in the USA , where school librarians are generally required to have a proportion of undergraduate and graduate credits in both disciplines ( the regulations vary from state to state ) , and the education system has long been flexible enough to meet the need without the provision of special courses ( though this has its disadvantage in that some students may therefore miss the opportunity to make direct cross-disciplinary comparisons under academic supervision ) . |
| 23 | When we have the answers , multimedia will at last be ready to deliver the revolution that electronic publishing has long been promising . |
| 24 | With FREELINK you have an unrivalled choice of holidays with the convenience of home town departures and the outstanding value for which Cosmos has long been famous — an unbeatable combination from Europe 's number one coach tour operator . |
| 25 | One important non-European or only partly-European state whose position had long been ambiguous , the Ottoman empire , was now finally and firmly incorporated into European diplomacy . |
| 26 | Tools of this kind have long been available in the industry . |
| 27 | If anything , they may be relieved to have got off so lightly , given that East Germany 's aversion to a local brand of perestroika and glasnost has long been clear . |
| 28 | The case for taking this step has long been powerful , and is now overwhelming . |
| 29 | Sociologists , economists , political scientists , historians , geogra ’ phers , anthropologists and everyone else whose work demanded a global perspective had long been accustomed to perceive the world as split into modern and traditional , advanced and backward , progressive and stagnant societies , to mention only the most commonly used distinctions . |
| 30 | The main symbol of death had long been that of the old man holding a familiar rural implement , the scythe , implying that man would be cut down when he was ripe for it . |