Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson Matthey has had a long and important involvement in the development of cisplatin and carboplatin , the platinum-based anti-tumour drugs used in the treatment of testicular and ovarian cancer . |
| 2 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 3 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 4 | As most of you will know , Queens Park has had a long standing partnership with the Baptist Church in Doolay Falls near Wichita , Kansas . |
| 5 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 6 | Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight . |
| 7 | Although , although I would think that er Waldo Gregory has got the longest er time served in active service than probably er any other individual that went to Spain . |
| 8 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 9 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 10 | Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site . |
| 11 | One-room living has come a long way from the old bed-sitter image with its general note of poverty and desperation . |
| 12 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 13 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
| 14 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 15 | During this time Alcock had begun the long process of memorising the night sky ; by 1932 he already knew the position of most stars that can be seen by the naked eye . |
| 16 | As the modified aircraft had left the Long Beach and Oxnard facilities , they were test flown and ferried to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Orange County . |
| 17 | There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle , and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy . |
| 18 | Mummy 's got the longest red blue . |
| 19 | ‘ Chopper an' Frankie 's got a long walk 'ome , ’ Tony said . |
| 20 | The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available . |
| 21 | But manufacturers have come a long way from the aluminium-framed picture windows that disfigured so many homes in the early days of the replacement window boom , and a wide range of window styles is now available . |
| 22 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 23 | But once again this ‘ temporary ’ extension of power and influence has lasted a long time , and the relative weighting of Diet , Cabinet , Bureaucracy and Judiciary remains a debated issue . |
| 24 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
| 25 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 26 | The loss of Davies to Widnes last January has cast a long shadow over British rugby . |
| 27 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 28 | Marius had written a long one to his mother and sister , at home in Kalmar . |
| 29 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 30 | Mike ( Twid ) Turner had added a long ( 65m ) pitch on The Pinnacle , Cloggy . |