Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a long [noun sg] 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 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 ) .
8 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 .
9 Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 I have had a long history of muscular trouble , of a weak back .
14 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 .
15 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 . ’
16 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 .
17 This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others .
18 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 .
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