Example sentences of "have long been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ambonnay has long been famous for its production of still red wines . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Wall Street has long been bored with the US budget deficit . |
| 4 | He has long been involved in teaching but how does he feel about music education in schools today ? |
| 5 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 6 | The South African economy has long been dependent on minerals , especially gold . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Gairloch has long been renowned as a holiday resort of rare distinction , Victorian visitors regularly patronising the large hotel overlooking the bay and enjoying the quiet seclusion of this favoured backwater . |
| 10 | A small , mountainous country with a population of under three million people , it has long been free from colonial domination . |
| 11 | Prof Wynne Godley , of Cambridge University , who has long been pessimistic about the economy 's future , expects 3.4 million unemployed by the end of this year and 3.6 million by the end of 1994 . |
| 12 | Prof Wynne Godley , of Cambridge University , who has long been pessimistic about the economy 's future , expects 3.4 million unemployed by the end of this year and 3.6 million by the end of 1994 . |
| 13 | But in fairness to Bunce , who plays for Auckland , he has long been resident in New Zealand and had no thoughts of international rugby until approached by Western Samoa , whose 26-strong World Cup squad included only one player still living in the country . |
| 14 | It had long been traditional for offices to hold an annual dinner for staff in the winter and an outing or picnic in summer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities . |
| 17 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 18 | Unlike the provincial businessmen represented by Cobden , the financiers of the City of London had long been intimate in the aristocratic circles that dominated Westminster and Whitehall . |
| 19 | Colonizing species of alien genera doing likewise had long been decisive for Darwin 's species origin theorizing , where the analogy with the European human conquests over Australasian natives was hardly less explicit . |
| 20 | The aggressively minded General Conrad von Hötzendorff , Chief of the Austrian General Staff , had long been avid for a pre-emptive war . |
| 21 | Theology had long been familiar with this kind of argument , and had on occasion made very extensive use of it . |
| 22 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 23 | Both were directed towards the formalist reading of literary texts , and some anglophone academics tried to minimize the strangeness of French imports by saying that la nouvelle critique was only offering a new version of what had long been familiar in the Anglo-American academy . |
| 24 | Beth had long been concerned about Cissie 's ‘ wanderings ’ . |
| 25 | She came from a prominent Bristol family of nonconformists and industrialists , where her father had long been active in the abolitionist movement . |
| 26 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 27 | The inspiration for the experiment was the German Jugendherbergen accommodation which had long been popular with English trampers and cyclists . |
| 28 | The first issue interviewed Tyrannosaurus Rex , a band which , in their hippy phase , and before their reappearance as a chart group , T. Rex , had long been popular with Peel . |
| 29 | The DKP had long been dependent on the East German Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED — ultimately renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) and had suffered as a result of the changes in East Germany ; the ending of financial support from the SED had led to a scaling down of operations . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |