Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some languages have long words of many syllables which are difficult to pronounce at first . |
| 2 | Some species had long spines ( anchors ? ) attached to the lower , thicker valve . |
| 3 | Some species have long passages over the sea , for example the ducks , geese , waders and passerines that cross from northwestern Europe to Greenland . |
| 4 | However , some skins had long side-burns terminating at the lower jaw . |
| 5 | The old man had long white hair and a white beard . |
| 6 | Such favours were the cement of county politics , creating and maintaining political influence , for the Scottish gentry had long memories , both for kindness and injury , and if the latter was rarely , if ever , forgiven , neither was a favour forgotten . |
| 7 | This highlights one of the perennial difficulties of ‘ fertile ’ mules ; mules and donkeys are not always easy to distinguish , and even some horses have long ears . |
| 8 | You can see in photo one that the surfaces of these teeth have long ridges which increase the grinding power of the teeth . |
| 9 | Many fast animals have long shanks or calves , compared with thighs , like gazelles and horses . |
| 10 | Most young Asian or Asian-Mauritian girls have long hair ; very few have short hair . |
| 11 | Large spiders have long hairs , which are tuned to the wingbeats of large insects , while small spiders have short hairs . |
| 12 | It is better to keep a pair — adult males have long ‘ bristles ’ on their heads , while females have only a fringe of very short tentacles around the snout . |
| 13 | And the old hospital sites might be the best places to build the new units because the local population is usually tolerant , and both managerial and clinical staff have long experience of providing services for chronically mentally ill people . |
| 14 | The lack of any faster dissociation species from this large footprint does not necessarily mean that each of the 3 available sites have long dissociation times , but that binding to site 3 may be excluded for steric reasons as well . |
| 15 | This is because low-pitched sounds have long wavelengths which can not resolve the difference between closely spaced objects . |
| 16 | He too had discovered that the Nordic people have long memories . |
| 17 | ’ . Initially I was puzzled , until I realized he thought I had cut off my shirt sleeves , for in his force ( noted for its disciplined enforcement of a correct uniform presentation ) , all uniform shirts had long sleeves . |