Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a long [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers .
2 France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism .
3 Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed .
4 Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered .
5 Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden .
6 This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others .
7 If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it .
8 This has created a long period of uncertainty , but in fact it now appears that they do not grant core funding ( and inside information indicates that the NCC element is the dominant one ) .
9 ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) .
10 Severiano Ballesteros might have endured a long summer of discontent , pointing to both mental and physical problems for his loss of form , but his absence from the leaderboards , conspicuous though it might have been , is consistent with the capricious nature of the sport .
11 A path is simply a set of instructions like that , but you do n't have to type a long string of commands to do the job .
12 For example , try using a longer piece of airline .
13 It is nowadays quite unrealistic for a tenant even to attempt to secure a long letting of commercial property at a fixed rack rent ; and no well-advised landlord would grant such a lease .
14 For example , suppose that for some reason you wish to remember a long list of dissociated objects such as aeroplane , alarm clock , carrot , television , etc .
15 Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers .
16 The document also contains a clause stating that each EC country can continue to give a longer period of maternity leave , which must be paid at 80% of women 's wages .
17 It was agreed this was not easy to do and it illustrated that deciding whether pupils had attained a long list of criteria would be a very considerable task .
18 Jenkins has been in the job for about ten days , so she can be forgiven for forgetting a lot of names , but she does have a long history of dealing with elderly people .
19 He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it .
20 She wore a dark grey hat taken from the store on her last day as owner , and that was 17 years ago , and a plain grey scarf round her throat , and leather gloves that had stood a long test of time .
21 He paused to take a long draught of his own coffee .
22 This coolness arises in part from fear of the opponents , who have the laws on their side , and partly from the incredulity of men , who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them .
23 I have had a long history of muscular trouble , of a weak back .
24 You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this .
25 Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’
26 Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form .
27 Later excavations have shown a long sequence of development from a late Saxon farm or manorial complex with two phases of churches , to a medieval manor house .
28 This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others .
29 Most , if not all , of the more seriously disadvantaged areas have experienced a long history of marginalisation and of dependence on distant or alien authorities .
30 ‘ He liked the song so much he wanted to have a long version of it , ’ claimed Moroder , ‘ and that 's when I did the 17-minute one .
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