Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Home-grown : Edinburgh 's Royal Botanic Garden also has had a long involvement with the development of plants with medicinal properties |
| 32 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 35 | Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing . |
| 36 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
| 37 | Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site . |
| 38 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 39 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 40 | The loss of Davies to Widnes last January has cast a long shadow over British rugby . |
| 41 | But archaeology has shown us much , and will show much more , of the history of these places before the documents are plentiful — and has cast a long shadow in the process over early medieval Italian towns , where comparable studies are less advanced than in Britain . |
| 42 | The Queen as Head of State gives overall stability to the political system and the Prime Minister as Head of Government is one who has served a long apprenticeship in parliament in high office of state and who is the elected leader of a party which has the confidence of the nation . |
| 43 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 44 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 45 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 46 | While the press , led by The Hindu , has gone a long way to proving that Bofors handed out millions of dollars to Indian middlemen , the identity of the ultimate recipients of the money remains a mystery . |
| 47 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 48 | Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’ |
| 49 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
| 50 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
| 51 | 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 ) . |
| 52 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 53 | Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight . |
| 54 | The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone . |
| 55 | He 'd fought a long battle against the boys ’ religious indoctrination . |
| 56 | As usual , they are lost and confused , having floated a long way from home . |
| 57 | But the plain fact is , and genuinely I mean this , er , er , erm , if it were as simple working across the boundaries between yourselves and the Health Authority , between yourselves and the private sector , with the voluntary sector , and the great army of unpaid helpers if it was that simple , erm , then we would have moved a long way along that line towards implementation of a humane and caring care in the community twenty years ago , when these debates first started . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | The Prince , of course , had to go and say hello , and disappeared once again , emerging ten minutes later having had a long discussion with the chief brass player . |
| 60 | She came to Queen 's Park about 11 years ago , having had a long association at Findlay Memorial Tabernacle . |