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

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1 IAN LUCAS has a longer booklet on Apple Snails available at £3 including p&p
2 I SPENT most of Friday morning having a long talk with Paul Seddon — Assistant Commissioner Seddon , who is our department 's special representative at New Scotland Yard .
3 Similarly , in England football hooliganism has a long history .
4 It noted that ‘ Corbett McDonald has a long history as a lobbyist for the asbestos industry .
5 The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers .
6 North Shields has a long history of democratic local government and is currently under the political control of the most left-wing Labour authority in the North East .
7 Opposition to a fixed European exchange rate has a long history within the Labour movement .
8 Folk music has a long association with classical music , why not include that ?
9 National Assistance which followed on Poor Law Relief has a long history .
10 But the intelligence fraternity has a long track record of trying to fool others and in the process usually ends up fooling itself .
11 A new song , ‘ Pussy Cat Meow ’ , celebrates them and a dream Kier had a long time ago .
12 The infantry version had a longer shaft , but both versions were essentially spiked maces .
13 Nevertheless , Mr Lamont has a long way to go before he can recover the confidence of Scottish business leaders .
14 JC seh has a long history , almost certainly originating from a verb ( which later became reanalysed as a complementiser corresponding to " that " ) in one of the West African languages of the Kwa group .
15 The University of Chicago Press has a long list of titles for the coming spring season , in contrast with last year 's more restricted offering .
16 Within minutes of leaving the museum , Mr Hurd was in deep conversation with the Foreign Minister , Mr David Levy ; the two hour session was conducted through interpreters , but Mr Hurd and Mr Levy had a long conversation afterwards in French which both of them speak fluently .
17 Hereford cattle have a long pedigree … they can be traced right back to the red cattle of Roman Britain .
18 Many mothers with parenting difficulties had a long history of emotional problems themselves , and seemed generally lacking in sensitivity to their children 's anxieties and needs rather than deficient in specific child management techniques .
19 The UK group has a long standing commitment , made to the Hong Kong Government , to broaden the shareholder base of Hong Kong Telecom and a deal with CITIC would be consistent with that .
20 The 17.5 per cent stake represents roughly a quarter of Anglia 's market capitalisation , but David McCall , chief executive , said he believed ‘ the share price has a long way to go yet ’ .
21 The ‘ need ’ theorists ' concept of self-actualization or self fulfilment has a long history ( Jung , Adler , Goldstein , Rogers ) yet remains one of the fuzziest and least developed in psychology .
22 The concept of an independent development agency has a long tradition in Britain .
23 We recall that the confessional idea has a long history .
24 Both he and his wife Margery had a long association with the Lake District .
25 Because in plasma cGMP has a longer half-life ( 15 min ) than ANP ( 1–2 min ) , cGMP can be regarded as a more sensitive marker for ANP release than ANP itself in many situations .
26 The concepts of crystal settling and convection in magma chambers have a long history r2–6 .
27 Local government audit has a long history .
28 Peter Settelen has a long list of television credits to his name , appearing in Crown Court and Z-Cars .
29 Nothing much between the two teams on form … they 're two places and eight points apart … both are in the frame for the play-off places but the promotion race has a long way to go yet …
30 The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers .
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