Example sentences of "[noun] have a long [noun] " 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 | Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace . |
| 3 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
| 4 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
| 5 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 6 | Romania has a long way to go before it can even begin to climb out of its paralysis . |
| 7 | Such difficult transition demands time and balance and Romania has a long way to go before it is comfortable with its new identity . |
| 8 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
| 9 | Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 15 | The technique of biomass gasification by partial combustion has a long history . |
| 16 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
| 17 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 18 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 19 | He said that the republican leaders had discussed at the meeting financial and other support for Gorbachev " in the period after his resignation " , and he and Gorbachev had a long meeting on Dec. 23 to discuss transition arrangements . |
| 20 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies . |
| 23 | John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions . |
| 24 | While the Duke of Argyll had indeed a well-established interest in the county , and John Campbell of Mamore had a long tenure of the parliamentary seat , it is hardly to be wondered that some of the gentlemen resented that blunt statement of Campbell power . |
| 25 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
| 26 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 27 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
| 28 | The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change . |
| 29 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 30 | Local government audit has a long history . |