Example sentences of "have [art] long [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , Lyell has the long succession of faunas and floras brought about by a continual , one-by-one extinction of species and their replacement by new ones . |
| 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 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
| 14 | The University of Chicago Press has a long list of titles for the coming spring season , in contrast with last year 's more restricted offering . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | Peter Settelen has a long list of television credits to his name , appearing in Crown Court and Z-Cars . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | MITI has a long record of concern with the dangers of excess capacity for capital intensive sectors . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 22 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 25 | ‘ We 'll have a long series of locks to navigate later — a bit trying for a novice . |
| 26 | The department is also strong in the history of philosophy , having a long tradition of scholarship in Ancient Philosophy , the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment , and in Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy . |
| 27 | If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it . |
| 28 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 29 | That he had the long record of offenses , mainly dishonesty and some for violence against the police . |
| 30 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |