Example sentences of "[noun] have a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 32 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
| 33 | The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change . |
| 34 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 35 | Local government audit has a long history . |
| 36 | But Scotland has a long way to go before the symbiosis of locals and visitors becomes a reality . |
| 37 | Scotland has a long tradition of exporting its talents . |
| 38 | Gerard has a long dissertation on it in his Herbal of 1597 , and shows four coloured illustrations of different sorts , which do not seem to be known nowadays . |
| 39 | The village has a long history . |
| 40 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 41 | Peter Settelen has a long list of television credits to his name , appearing in Crown Court and Z-Cars . |
| 42 | THE QUEEN 'S HEAD , said to be a 14th Century inn has a long gallery , now glassed in , facing east , but it is not an original structure . |
| 43 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
| 44 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
| 45 | Probably the greatest scientific panjandrum of the 19th century , Thomson had a long association with transoceanic cables . |
| 46 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 47 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |
| 48 | Schemes for arranging Perpetual Peace had a long and depressingly futile history . |
| 49 | William Jackson and John Turner had a long discussion about exporting , as they were both inexperienced in such matters , and they listed the strengths and weaknesses of Quality Kraft Carpets in order to arrive at a decision as to which would be the most appropriate overseas market to enter . |
| 50 | To take one example , in November 1987 the North-West Regional News introduced by Stuart Hall had a long feature as their opening item : |
| 51 | This boyish hatred of military interference to put down Communism in Russia had a long consequence . |
| 52 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |
| 53 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 54 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 55 | North Shields has a long history of democratic local government and is currently under the political control of the most left-wing Labour authority in the North East . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 58 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 59 | If we then look at paragraph five , that 's the first page of appendix two , we see here The appeal site has a long planning history . |
| 60 | The UK group has a long standing commitment , made to the Hong Kong Government , to broaden the shareholder base of Hong Kong Telecom and a deal with CITIC would be consistent with that . |