Example sentences of "[noun] have a long [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace . |
| 2 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
| 3 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 4 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
| 5 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 6 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 7 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
| 8 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 9 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |
| 10 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 11 | John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions . |
| 12 | While the Duke of Argyll had indeed a well-established interest in the county , and John Campbell of Mamore had a long tenure of the parliamentary seat , it is hardly to be wondered that some of the gentlemen resented that blunt statement of Campbell power . |
| 13 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
| 14 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 15 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
| 16 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 17 | Scotland has a long tradition of exporting its talents . |
| 18 | Peter Settelen has a long list of television credits to his name , appearing in Crown Court and Z-Cars . |
| 19 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 20 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 23 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
| 24 | Second , a large proportion of the older workers had a long period of service with the same company before being made redundant . |
| 25 | Ulster has a long tradition of rural industry and peasant agriculture . |
| 26 | The CAB has a long history of mobilising professionals such as lawyers , accountants and surveyors , to advise clients on a voluntary basis but there are very few lawyers who specialise in welfare benefits or money advice . |
| 27 | ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods . |
| 28 | The result is that shops use a work-in-process inventory to buffer themselves against problems and uncertainties , a situation where each station has a long queue of semifinished elements . |
| 29 | As outlined earlier , low temperatures past and present are also indicated by the evidence that the Moon has a long history of outer rigidity . |
| 30 | During a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against NMFS to compel observer coverage of the total US tuna fleet , the legal counsel for Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund stated : ‘ The National Marine Fisheries Service has a long history of ignoring the will of Congress and working closely with the fishing industry . |