Example sentences of "[noun] have [art] long " 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 Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace .
3 The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions .
4 The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers .
5 Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates .
6 Romania has a long way to go before it can even begin to climb out of its paralysis .
7 Such difficult transition demands time and balance and Romania has a long way to go before it is comfortable with its new identity .
8 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 .
9 Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history .
10 The Association has a long history ( dating back to the end of the last century ) , and the ESRC funded project will complement existing work on the period before 1946 .
11 ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added .
12 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 .
13 There is a clear value in reducing the amount of chemical waste which has to be got rid of — and that thinking has a long way to go .
14 The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers .
15 The technique of biomass gasification by partial combustion has a long history .
16 Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship .
20 This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science .
21 Biological research has a long and distinguished tradition in the University and the excellence of research within the Division is recognised nationally and internationally .
22 The city of Shechem has a long and important history .
23 The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death .
24 He said that the republican leaders had discussed at the meeting financial and other support for Gorbachev " in the period after his resignation " , and he and Gorbachev had a long meeting on Dec. 23 to discuss transition arrangements .
25 Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here .
26 Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives .
27 Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies .
28 John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions .
29 While the Duke of Argyll had indeed a well-established interest in the county , and John Campbell of Mamore had a long tenure of the parliamentary seat , it is hardly to be wondered that some of the gentlemen resented that blunt statement of Campbell power .
30 Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry .
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