Example sentences of "[noun] have a long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fraserburgh has a long and distinguished lifeboat history , but the town has paid the price with the loss of no less than 13 lifeboatmen 's lives in the course of several disasters . |
| 2 | Biological research has a long and distinguished tradition in the University and the excellence of research within the Division is recognised nationally and internationally . |
| 3 | The city of Shechem has a long and important history . |
| 4 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | Schemes for arranging Perpetual Peace had a long and depressingly futile history . |
| 6 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |
| 7 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 8 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 9 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 10 | Quinn had a long and livid bruise on the side of his jaw , a lump and a plaster on the back of his head . |
| 11 | Take education , in which Mr Clinton has a long and distinguished interest . |
| 12 | It remains the key to our understanding of the natural world and it enables us to recognise that life has a long and continuous history during which organisms , both plant and animal , have changed , generation by generation , as they colonised all parts of the world . |
| 13 | Miss Riley had a long and distinguished bookselling career over 65 years . |
| 14 | In the event , Eugénie had a long and difficult labour — over 12 hours — as the Emperor told the Queen in a letter of 17 March , which followed his personal telegram of the previous day . |
| 15 | The School has a long and successful tradition in team games and competitions . |
| 16 | The Training scheme has a long and proud history . |
| 17 | Basically white American rural music descended from British and Irish folk traditions , country has a long and much cherished lineage . |
| 18 | The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history and at a time of difficulty for the institutions of higher education throughout the country , Edinburgh is in a process of constantly reappraising and improving standards to meet the growing demands of a changing world . |
| 19 | Penal reform groups have a long and honourable history and have played an important part in the development of criminal justice policy over the years . |
| 20 | Lucca has a long and brave history and its rigid grid of streets still betray its Roman origins . |
| 21 | The use of sex crime in the media as a source of titillation has a long and inglorious past which has emerged spectacularly again in the Thatcher years . |
| 22 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 23 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |