Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long record [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Colin French has a long record for animal cruelty , and there were cheers in the public gallery as he was taken away .
2 MITI has a long record of concern with the dangers of excess capacity for capital intensive sectors .
3 It has a long record of allocating high proportions of its annual budgets to defence , even appearing in the market for a submarine fleet in 1986 .
4 Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden .
5 The G M B's got a long record of joining forces with others which has proved to be successful , but if we 're gon na be honest , it 's always been recognized that we would be the predominant union and yes Apex members we should have been honest with you at the time of merger , because it 's quite clear you was gon na lose your identity to at least to some extent and we should have been honest about that .
6 That he had the long record of offenses , mainly dishonesty and some for violence against the police .
7 A carpenter , he had a long record of hard work , and his family were dependent on his income .
8 We had a long record of significant invention and development of such items as polyester fabric ( Terylene and Crimplene ) but were we really capable of producing to order , so to speak , a constant family of new variations on a theme ?
9 Curzon had a long record of devoted although doubtfully successful public service .
10 He managed to attract to the new Achimota college a remarkable principal , Alek Fraser , who had a long record of educating the leaders of society in Ceylon .
11 Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here .
12 These cases hardly ever go to court , but publishers have a long record of paying up and shutting up .
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