Example sentences of "[noun] have a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace . |
| 3 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
| 4 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
| 5 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 9 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
| 10 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 11 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 12 | He said that the republican leaders had discussed at the meeting financial and other support for Gorbachev " in the period after his resignation " , and he and Gorbachev had a long meeting on Dec. 23 to discuss transition arrangements . |
| 13 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
| 18 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 19 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
| 20 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 21 | Scotland has a long tradition of exporting its talents . |
| 22 | Gerard has a long dissertation on it in his Herbal of 1597 , and shows four coloured illustrations of different sorts , which do not seem to be known nowadays . |
| 23 | Peter Settelen has a long list of television credits to his name , appearing in Crown Court and Z-Cars . |
| 24 | Probably the greatest scientific panjandrum of the 19th century , Thomson had a long association with transoceanic cables . |
| 25 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 26 | William Jackson and John Turner had a long discussion about exporting , as they were both inexperienced in such matters , and they listed the strengths and weaknesses of Quality Kraft Carpets in order to arrive at a decision as to which would be the most appropriate overseas market to enter . |
| 27 | To take one example , in November 1987 the North-West Regional News introduced by Stuart Hall had a long feature as their opening item : |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 30 | 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 . |