Example sentences of "have long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We have had long meetings with the Secretary of State for Energy on the future of Monktonhall . |
| 32 | Dan Jones ( 64 ) has no formal qualifications but has had long experience in the distribution and sale of beers , wines and spirits as Marketing Manager for Palatine . |
| 33 | Too late I thought of adding , ‘ On oath , my lord ? ’ , for I have never seen a more striking example of the perils of what the law calls ‘ fleeting identification ’ , and this from a witness to whom I was not a total stranger and who himself , both as counsel and judge , had had long experience in assessing the worth of ID witnesses in court . |
| 34 | For the first time she found herself wondering whether he had resented not only Hugo but all the family , and whether that subsequent betrayal could have had long roots in the soil of an old envy . |
| 35 | Their chemical and isotopic compositions are meteoritic and they have had long histories of flight through space . |
| 36 | Some families in difficulties appear to have had long histories of problems , and often the parents themselves have suffered a difficult childhood . |
| 37 | They must have had long journies , so I expect they 're having a lie in , I know I would . |
| 38 | ‘ Remarkably , people tend to think that doctors have had long training , ’ he says . |
| 39 | Some acupuncturists find that they can not treat patients who have had long courses of antibiotic therapy until several months after this treatment has finished . |
| 40 | And when he began to have the confidence to talk to us , he would have long discussions with people about films which he had never actually seen , but which he could pretend to have seen , since he made a point of reading all the reviews of the new films and musicals when he found out that that was what people liked to talk about on first meetings . |
| 41 | They must have long memories , Mungo thought , lying here in permanent dusk . |
| 42 | ‘ Elephants do have long memories , ’ Daphne says , ‘ and they go into a period of deep grieving that will often last three or four months , which is when the really intensive care comes in . |
| 43 | I would emphasize first , here speaking as one who has in the past given evidence on behalf of the Government , that the value of the scrutiny process is in part that it forces those with more direct power to consider their positions and their arguments carefully and to defend them in the face of public questioning by a Committee whose members may have long experience of the subject-matter involved . |
| 44 | If I did n't have long hair , everyone would think I was a boy . |
| 45 | But but they looked wild because they would have long hair beards a and and all oh my word they were wild looking but er . |
| 46 | David Roper , marketing executive , said : ‘ Car exhaust emissions are a major source of lead pollution in the atmosphere , which can have long term effects to health , particularly young children . |
| 47 | These relatively low interest rates make it an attractive source of finance to borrowers , and the fact that it is a non-profit-making organization means that it can involve itself in socially oriented projects which may have long pay-off periods . |
| 48 | In order to counteract the difficulties inherent in having long gaps between training days , future plans are hinging on setting up a weekly evening course at a venue further out of London ( yet to be found , but if possible easily accessible from the M25 ) . |
| 49 | Do you do you remember ever ever having long periods of illness yourself ? |
| 50 | There are other entries describing my passion for clothes , and also my concern to look good — for example , it notes that I insisted on having long hair , despite problems of manageability . |
| 51 | That 's also why I like having long hair , it 's so versatile . |
| 52 | Heading south he got beaten up by the Miami cops for having long hair . |
| 53 | I do n't like men having long hair . |
| 54 | Fredrick taught his brother his technique in a short time and the two brothers worked side by side , often having long discussions about the technique , modifying it as they went along . |
| 55 | However , some radionuclides having longer half-lives or being more rapidly dispersed can become globally distributed . |
| 56 | You you 'd all it means is you 'd have longer lines of communication to an even worse bureaucracy , and I think if a bureaucracy which can produce this situation of opting out as an alternative is any example to have , I would choose to be away from it . |
| 57 | Only Heath , John Biffen and Paul Channon would have longer service on the Conservative benches . |
| 58 | After a great number of generations , tortoises on the arid islands will have longer necks than those on the watered islands . |
| 59 | In families where the mother tended to intervene often in the first observation period , the children did have longer quarrels and more frequent physical fights in the second observation period ( six months later ) than in families where she intervened less . |
| 60 | Care-giving can also have longer term effects on labour market participation . |