Example sentences of "long [been] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | HOARDING clothes has long been a British vice . |
| 32 | In France there 's long been a high priority on keeping the birth rate up , so there are very high maternity grants and family allowances , especially if you 've got three or more children . |
| 33 | The sudden chill of isolation which Britain felt in a hostile world , and the thrill of Dominion contingents serving alongside troops from ‘ home ’ , raised in new form what had long been a nagging conundrum — that the outlying parts of the Empire which Britain defended bore no appreciable share of the burden , precisely because of the fundamental political syllogism : no taxation without representation ; no representation without common responsibility ; no common responsibility without sacrifice of separate independence . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | So it should happen that Mr Kirkley was at home when the guests arrived and was able to add to his surprise and not a little amazement when his daughter 's friend was delivered at his door by Raggie Aggie , for Aggie had long been a known character , she and her hand-cart , and now the pony-driven flat-cart ; and of course the fact that she was almost as broad as it was . |
| 36 | Getting to the launch point , the village of St Arnaud near the tip of the Southern Alps , had long been a logistical triumph . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | The mere business of shifting passengers has long been a dreary distraction . |