Example sentences of "have long been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morgenthau has long been criticized for ignoring or underplaying economic factors . |
| 2 | A CABINET seat has long been mooted for Virginia Bottomley , who is unique in managing to elicit praise and admiration even from the die-hard male chauvinists in her party . |
| 3 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 4 | A work of this kind has long been wished for … |
| 5 | As Westminster aide to the party leader , Mr Durkan has long been tipped for higher offices . |
| 6 | Collagen has long been known for its hydrating power and as a source of nutrients for the skin , but its penetration into the epidermis has always been limited by its high molecular weight . |
| 7 | It has long been known for its very good annual conferences , and for giving the Eleanor Farjeon Award . |
| 8 | Singapore has long been known for its campaigns against littering , smoking , spitting and jay-walking , but it may be the only place in the world trying to toilet train an entire nation . |
| 9 | The Suffolk Dun , according to Arthur Young in 1794 , had long been celebrated for its magnanimous milk yield , said to be the highest in the country in proportion to its body size and food intake . |
| 10 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 11 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 12 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 13 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 14 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 15 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |
| 16 | ‘ The Old Halls , Farm Houses and Cottages of the North of England have long been admired for their elegant pecularity reg=peculiarity of design , and , aided by accidental additions and delapidations , and by combinations of the richest woods , and back-grounds of rocks and mountains , are , in their kind , finer objects for study than any others to be met with in the island . |
| 17 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 18 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 19 | The present Type 22s , such as HMS Broadsword and Brilliant , which shot down several Argentinian aircraft with Seawolf missiles , have long been criticised for their puny armament . |
| 20 | In industrialised countries , such rudimentary amenities as piped water and sanitation have long been taken for granted and there has been a virtual elimination of major infectious diseases over the past century . |