Example sentences of "have long be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate Greenaway has long been a firm favourite among collectors who will pay £2,000-£3,000 for a collection of her Almanacks and £30-£50 for most single specimens . |
| 2 | The numbers of acute beds that a service needs has long been a contentious issue . |
| 3 | The examination system has long been a serious bone of contention in this country . |
| 4 | In the freezing barren icelands of the Arctic north , whale and dolphin meat has long been a traditional and important part of the diet for coastal settlements . |
| 5 | Transport of raw materials for energy use has long been a major sector in marine commerce but coal in particular has been the dominant single energy cargo . |
| 6 | ICI has long been a major supplier of surfactants , which are the active ingredient in detergents . |
| 7 | However , the escape from spontaneity has long been a philosophical ideal , at its most intransigent in Sartre 's Being and nothingness , which treats even emotion as a matter of choice , to the point of denying the distinction between genuine and willed feeling . |
| 8 | For the sake of those members who are not local I will briefly explain that the More family has long been a prominent one in this area . |
| 9 | ( The Thatcher mug has long been a best seller . ) |
| 10 | D Goldstein of Staravia Ltd , Ascot , who has long been a good friend of the aircraft preservation movement , offered a range of instruments . |
| 11 | Whereas Mr Orlando has long been a troublesome hero for his party , Mr Segni does not look like a troublemaker . |
| 12 | This , too , is unlikely , for Mr Morita has long been a noisy critic of America and was saying nothing new . |
| 13 | While DEC Europe has long been a strong advocate for X.desktop , DEC US originally opted for the rival Visix Looking Glass product ( UX No 306 ) , and more recently began evaluating HP 's Visual User Environment ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 14 | There has long been a hidden agenda in foreign language teaching which included the notion that the ultimate aim was to create bilinguals in the foreign and mother tongues . |
| 15 | The mere business of shifting passengers has long been a dreary distraction . |
| 16 | There has long been a lucrative private market in econometric models and the predictions that arise from them : nowadays these predictions come free of charge in the daily media prognostications of the specialist forecasters . |
| 17 | The University has long been a leading centre for research in this field , and just over a year ago Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre ( EPCC ) was established to focus further on these issues . |
| 18 | Non-evaluative criticism , as propounded by the successive Merton professors , Gardner and Carey , has long been a popular ideal at Oxford . |
| 19 | Igls has long been a popular summer haunt of the Austrians , and therefore has much to offer the visitor . |
| 20 | But dance has long been a popular option at Haughton where teacher Jenny Ruston says its hard to find the time to meet all the demand from boys and girls . |
| 21 | The contamination of clay bodies by minute metallic elements has long been a recurring nightmare for potters despite stringent efforts to eradicate the ‘ disease ’ . |
| 22 | HOARDING clothes has long been a British vice . |
| 23 | It has long been the largest voluntary nature conservation organisation in Europe . |
| 24 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 25 | The parliamentary road to socialism has been the major tradition within Britain where the Labour Party has long been the dominant organisational force on the Left and amongst the working class . |
| 26 | Portree has long been the commercial centre of the Isle of Skye . |
| 27 | It has long been the French preference to maintain the Council as the primary decision-making body of the Community , and indeed to reinforce its role ; the Germans want greater powers for the Parliament in Strasbourg . |
| 28 | To be able to sell every vehicle that lands at a UK port and , as a result , to enjoy buoyant prices for used models , has long been the happy position for Mitsubishi 's UK importer , Colt Cars . |
| 29 | There has long been an unspoken consensus across the party spectrum that challenging the system would be to enter a political minefield . |
| 30 | As I mentioned earlier , the saithe or coalfish Gadus virens has long been an important fish in Shetland , the surface-shoaling immatures being utilised by many sea-birds . |