Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 32 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 33 | Wintec and Thorowgood saddles have come a long way since early designs and Thorowgood also make wipe-clean bridles that look smart enough for most occasions . |
| 34 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 35 | If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it . |
| 36 | But the industrial robot has come a long way since the early sixties when Joe Engelberger set up Unimation , the world 's first industrial robot making company . |
| 37 | Himalayan skiing has had a long and painfully slow gestation period beginning with the activities of various Indian Army Officers in the early part of the century . |
| 38 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |
| 39 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 40 | Ballylumford had had a long , bitter industrial dispute a few months earlier and the scars were raw and unhealed . |
| 41 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 42 | While the Silures and their allies had fought a long and successful guerrilla-type campaign , they did not possess the strength or ability to stop a large Roman force from advancing into their territory , nor had they command of the sea . |
| 43 | For Greece , as for Germany and one other country in the NATO alliance , the cold war had shut a long border on the other side of which lay once-familiar territory . |
| 44 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 45 | The Iraqi leader 's threatened a long range missile strike on Israel if it does n't leave the occupied territories after yesterday 's violence that left nineteen Palestinians dead . |
| 46 | DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington . |
| 47 | Later excavations have shown a long sequence of development from a late Saxon farm or manorial complex with two phases of churches , to a medieval manor house . |
| 48 | The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions . |
| 49 | It may be that osteopathy or chiropractic could help ; and both osteopaths and chiropractors have had a long training which includes medical education and qualifies them to give valuable help with backache . |
| 50 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 51 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 52 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 53 | Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed . |
| 54 | Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing . |
| 55 | The fact that Teacher Placement Service has not had supply cover , although causing short term difficulties has improved the long term chances of success , as such additional external government funding would be temporary in nature . |
| 56 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 57 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
| 58 | Miss Lodsworth had had a long day . |
| 59 | She wore another severe suit , grey this time over a white blouse , but perhaps in honour of the occasion had added a long twisted rope of coral , pearls and crystal . |
| 60 | You know , you 'd think things had changed a long time ago but erm I remember having Chrissy in that yard when he was a baby in his pushchair where and there was the coalman 's horse and erm |