Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
| 2 | Medical advances almost invariably increase the demands on doctors ' time , and it is this increased intensity of working that has made the long hours of many doctors intolerable . |
| 3 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 4 | Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed . |
| 5 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 6 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 7 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 8 | If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it . |
| 9 | This has created a long period of uncertainty , but in fact it now appears that they do not grant core funding ( and inside information indicates that the NCC element is the dominant one ) . |
| 10 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |
| 11 | Severiano Ballesteros might have endured a long summer of discontent , pointing to both mental and physical problems for his loss of form , but his absence from the leaderboards , conspicuous though it might have been , is consistent with the capricious nature of the sport . |
| 12 | A path is simply a set of instructions like that , but you do n't have to type a long string of commands to do the job . |
| 13 | Even if he had got the kind of constitution that he wanted , could he have stomached the long period of economic rebuilding — with all its attendant constraints — that lay ahead of France in 1946 ? |
| 14 | Deng Yingchao 's authority arose not only from her marriage to Zhou in 1925 , but also from her status as one of only around 50 women to have completed the Long March of 1934-35 . |
| 15 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
| 16 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
| 17 | It was agreed this was not easy to do and it illustrated that deciding whether pupils had attained a long list of criteria would be a very considerable task . |
| 18 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 19 | During this time Alcock had begun the long process of memorising the night sky ; by 1932 he already knew the position of most stars that can be seen by the naked eye . |
| 20 | She wore a dark grey hat taken from the store on her last day as owner , and that was 17 years ago , and a plain grey scarf round her throat , and leather gloves that had stood a long test of time . |
| 21 | This coolness arises in part from fear of the opponents , who have the laws on their side , and partly from the incredulity of men , who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them . |
| 22 | I have had a long history of muscular trouble , of a weak back . |
| 23 | You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this . |
| 24 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’ |
| 25 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 26 | Later excavations have shown a long sequence of development from a late Saxon farm or manorial complex with two phases of churches , to a medieval manor house . |
| 27 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 28 | Most , if not all , of the more seriously disadvantaged areas have experienced a long history of marginalisation and of dependence on distant or alien authorities . |