Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
3 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
4 | Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
10 | The technique of biomass gasification by partial combustion has a long history . |
11 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
12 | Biological research has a long and distinguished tradition in the University and the excellence of research within the Division is recognised nationally and internationally . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Local government audit has a long history . |
15 | The village has a long history . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
19 | The difference from RP can be appreciated quite easily by reference to the pair can , ca n't : can has the long back vowel predicted by the single nasal environment , whereas can ‘ t has the short front vowel predicted by the nasal + voiceless obstruent environment ( compare also dance , ranch , etc. , which are short , front ) . |
20 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
21 | Schemes for arranging Perpetual Peace had a long and depressingly futile history . |
22 | To take one example , in November 1987 the North-West Regional News introduced by Stuart Hall had a long feature as their opening item : |
23 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
24 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
28 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
29 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |
30 | Martha saved herself from relegation to a junior class by reciting the whole of Psalm 103 , one of Nana 's favourites , in morning assembly ; after this feat her teacher had a long conversation above her head with her mother , and began to come to their house on Saturdays to give her extra lessons . |