Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second must be that he or she has a long life . |
| 2 | Knowing that she had a long day in front of her , Laura decided to follow her friend 's good example . |
| 3 | Being a mere apprentice was boring and carried no cachet , and Lydia was dauntedly aware that she had a long way to go before she achieved the skills and ease of perfection . |
| 4 | That requires two conditions , one that you have no long term debt , and that under the capital control regime which exists on the legislation , you have what is termed a nil or negative credit ceiling . |
| 5 | I know that we 've a long way today er to go today but would you just bear that in mind colleagues . |
| 6 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 7 | A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’ |
| 8 | The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level , although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go . |
| 9 | Dr Fleming said : ‘ The study has yielded a mass of useful data including the finding that we have the longest referral wait in Europe . ’ |
| 10 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 11 | It was a relief to all of them when at half-past ten Robina got up and declared firmly that they had a long journey and must now go . |
| 12 | Consequently 21 per cent of the population of Great Britain report that they have a long standing limiting illness ( 19 per cent of males and 22 per cent of females ) . |
| 13 | This Tokyo factory is the one that makes the modern Schecter guitars as well as the Casio synth guitars and Kramer electrics ( recently deceased ) so they 've a long history of making quality instruments . |
| 14 | Although it has a long history , the paradox of the Prisoners ' Dilemma has recently been much studied for the light it may shed on the evolution of altruistic or cooperative behaviour . |
| 15 | My grandfather , who was one of the aircraft pioneers , told me that he had a long argument with Cody about whether a certain member was in tension or in compression in flight . |
| 16 | She does n't know any of their names , but she remembers that he had a long scar running right up his hand . |
| 17 | That he had the long record of offenses , mainly dishonesty and some for violence against the police . |
| 18 | Erm that means we have a stall on Tuesday the twenty fourth , Wednesday we 've got our meeting here with the speaker about , were having Mike speaking on Czechoslovakian now and he 'll be telling us his experiences over there and his had a long association with Czechoslovakia and Harlow and Thursday were having a market stall with a jazz band and Norman could probably tell us more about that . |
| 19 | Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation . |
| 20 | Add the possible problem with the wart , her upset at being all but mobbed by the crowd on a very hot day , and her apparently being carried off a true course in the straight by Achilles , and you have a long menu of excuses or explanations . |
| 21 | And you have a long walk . ’ |
| 22 | Her hair was short and dark , and she had a long face with a mobile mouth and crooked teeth . |
| 23 | For instance , if you 've a long way to go , it 's better to get there slowly than not at all . ’ |
| 24 | They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think . |
| 25 | er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about |
| 26 | Arran buses have printed timetables but , as in all islands , clocks are set to boat times and we had a long wait , an identikit American family and myself . |
| 27 | ‘ You ladies take far too long over your drinks , and we have a long drive ahead of us . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't know it may be that I 'll be the only member er that talks in terms of a specific Euro seat er in any detail but it does matter in our area and we have a long history of arguing that case . |
| 29 | This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula . |
| 30 | In an ideal world we would be recycling and re-using everything , but this is n't possible and we have a long way to go before we can turn all our waste into a resource . |