Example sentences of "have long been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Poor old England , too , had long been corroding from within . |
| 3 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |
| 4 | These writs were not new and by Edward 's reign the church had long been fighting against their use in such matters as tithes and debts , testaments and matrimony . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 9 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |