Example sentences of "have a long and distinguished " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take education , in which Mr Clinton has a long and distinguished interest . |
| 2 | He has a long and distinguished career in public health medicine : he was the first doctor to give a patient penicillin in 1941 and then moved to the post of director of the Medical Research Council 's Pneumoconiosis Research Unit , investigating diseases of the lung . |
| 3 | Fraserburgh has a long and distinguished lifeboat history , but the town has paid the price with the loss of no less than 13 lifeboatmen 's lives in the course of several disasters . |
| 4 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 5 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 6 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 7 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 8 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 9 | Biological research has a long and distinguished tradition in the University and the excellence of research within the Division is recognised nationally and internationally . |
| 10 | The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history and at a time of difficulty for the institutions of higher education throughout the country , Edinburgh is in a process of constantly reappraising and improving standards to meet the growing demands of a changing world . |
| 11 | The University of Edinburgh , although it has a long and distinguished history , is very much a university of the 1990s . |
| 12 | We bring the Guinness Spot to a close with a local musician who has had a long and distinguished career in the country and blues divisions of rock . |
| 13 | ‘ His investigative talent , which he displayed in this instance , will no doubt stand him in good stead in the future and I hope that he will have a long and distinguished career , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Miss Riley had a long and distinguished bookselling career over 65 years . |
| 15 | Some , like the eponymous stout , have a long and distinguished heritage . |