Example sentences of "[noun sg] has 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 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
| 3 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 6 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 7 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
| 8 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |
| 9 | The CAB has a long history of mobilising professionals such as lawyers , accountants and surveyors , to advise clients on a voluntary basis but there are very few lawyers who specialise in welfare benefits or money advice . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As outlined earlier , low temperatures past and present are also indicated by the evidence that the Moon has a long history of outer rigidity . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | During a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against NMFS to compel observer coverage of the total US tuna fleet , the legal counsel for Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund stated : ‘ The National Marine Fisheries Service has a long history of ignoring the will of Congress and working closely with the fishing industry . |
| 15 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 16 | Opposition to a fixed European exchange rate has a long history within the Labour movement . |
| 17 | The housing co-operative movement has a long pedigree in Scotland . |
| 18 | The study of the state has a long history in the social sciences . |
| 19 | It is not surprising , then , to find that the clause has a long career in the documents . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Whilst recognising that such a survey would be of only indirect relevance to their present situation , the firm has a long history in the area ( since 1890 ) , and its management has an acute awareness that the present local employment situation is likely to deteriorate further without a mix of public/private initiatives . |
| 22 | The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings . |
| 23 | Folk music has a long association with classical music , why not include that ? |
| 24 | One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The concept of an independent development agency has a long tradition in Britain . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Most importantly the use of syntactic information has a long history in computational linguistics . |
| 29 | Additionally , the needle has a long groove in its front face . |
| 30 | The use of an outsider to observe what happens in a school has a long history in Britain through the process of formal school inspection . |