Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] a long [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
| 2 | Further colour and splendour is brought to the occasion by the gold trimmed gowns and hats of the senior University officers : the Pro-Chancellors , the Vice-Chancellor and the Chancellor , whose gown has a long heavy train carried by his page . |
| 3 | Because it has little executive power itself , the union faces a long hard road to have the motion adopted . |
| 4 | In Holland , STIVA has a long established reputation for helping young people to drink responsibly . |
| 5 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |
| 6 | A beautiful waterway twelve miles long and relatively narrow , Loch Maree occupies a long straight furrow between tawny hills and , from end to end , nothing mars the tranquillity of the scene . |
| 7 | Ideal dairy land has a long growing season , no summer drought period , a stable soil structure with good drainage to avoid excessive poaching , and an unfailing water supply . |
| 8 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 9 | N. battus is characterised by having only one set of parallel rays in each bursal lobe while the female worm has a long pointed tail and the large egg is brownish with parallel sides . |
| 10 | The fruit has a long pointed protrusion , rather like a bird 's beak , and that 's how it gets the geranium name , meaning ‘ crane ’ . |
| 11 | Mike Belcher faces a long cold night camped outside the offices of the glostershire training and enterprise council . |
| 12 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |
| 13 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |