Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] has a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a clear value in reducing the amount of chemical waste which has to be got rid of — and that thinking has a long way to go . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
| 4 | What is of particular interest is that direct investment overseas by such enterprises has become increasingly important over the post war years ( as opposed to portfolio investment , of which British capital has a long tradition ) , and that this phenomenon is especially important for the British economy . |
| 5 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 6 | This plant has a long leaf form which is found in the lowlands where the temperature is substantially high . |
| 7 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
| 8 | The assertion that law is unsuitable or unable to deal with family and personal behaviour has a long history . |
| 9 | In Tanzania , for example , the Dodoma section of the semi-arid central region has a long history of both accelerated soil erosion and attempts at conservation . |
| 10 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 11 | More generally the idea of the inseparability of cultural and political revolution has a long history within the libertarian tradition with its roots in revolutionary Romanticism . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The technique of biomass gasification by partial combustion has a long history . |
| 14 | Bourgeois individualism has a long history of subversive bohemian variants ; and the struggle for control of the elements of counter cultural musical style was a struggle between different aspects of the same principle . |
| 15 | It may seem obvious to suggest that the level of understanding about purchasing among general practitioners and primary health care teams is extremely varied , but primary care has a long history of suffering from being physically distanced from other parts of the service and the discussions taking place there . |
| 16 | Outside those sectors where temporary working has a long tradition , they have usually vigorously condemned it . |
| 17 | Most importantly the use of syntactic information has a long history in computational linguistics . |
| 18 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 19 | One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender . |
| 20 | The housing co-operative movement has a long pedigree in Scotland . |
| 21 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
| 22 | This young man has a long way to go if he 's to earn a PhD in Biology like his mum . |
| 23 | The idea of New Towns has a long pedigree , but it received its twentieth-century fillip through the garden city movement ( Osborn and Whittick , 1963 ) . |
| 24 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 25 | ‘ But I rather think my modest , high-minded , fastidious , idealistic wife has a long way to go before she qualifies for that description . ’ |
| 26 | While the formal approach has a long tradition , manifested in innumerable volumes of grammar , the functional approach is less well documented . |