Example sentences of "[vb -s] a long [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any investigation which covers a long span of time is bound to encounter certain special problems . |
| 2 | Objectivity is itself an ideal which has a long history of identification with the masculine . |
| 3 | Egypt is another example of a country which , like Pakistan and China , has a long history of irrigation , in this case in the Nile Valley ( section 3.4.2 ) beginning some 5 kyr BP . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender . |
| 7 | Social theory of the family has a long history of debate on structural explanations , that is on whether family types adapt as appropriate to the social and economic world . |
| 8 | The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings . |
| 9 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
| 10 | But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans . |
| 11 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 12 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 13 | The concept of social disorganization , for example , which has a long history in sociology , assumes its contrast to be with a ‘ community ’ , a harmoniously well-organized and integrated society . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
| 16 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 17 | Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including : |
| 18 | Peter Settelen has a long list of television credits to his name , appearing in Crown Court and Z-Cars . |
| 19 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |
| 20 | Colin French has a long record for animal cruelty , and there were cheers in the public gallery as he was taken away . |
| 21 | MITI has a long record of concern with the dangers of excess capacity for capital intensive sectors . |
| 22 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 23 | But the ruler who likes to be driven around in a sinister black Range Rover with dark tinted windows casts a long shadow of fear . |
| 24 | The theory thus involves a long phase of stillstand with a sea level considerably lower than the present one in the latter part of the Tertiary period immediately prior to the Ice Age . |
| 25 | Education is seen to include some of this , but goes a long way beyond competence in application . |
| 26 | WHATEVER YOU 'RE PLANNING TO BUY YOUR MONEY GOES A LONG WAY WITH ABBEY NATIONAL |
| 27 | As everywhere else in the world , changing these attitudes requires a long campaign of education . |
| 28 | Experience has shown that the local appropriation of this programme often requires a long process of gestation and steady , patient work . |
| 29 | You said that it takes a long time for development between the first idea being mooted and a workable application of the particular physical principle , and you cited , what , fifty years for the development of a nuclear power station — is there always that time lag in technology ? |
| 30 | Well , the best thing about the course is , I think , that you get an all-round view of how it 's arranged and the time aspect of the information flow — that it takes a long time for information to reach the books and compendia etc . |