Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] has a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is of particular interest is that direct investment overseas by such enterprises has become increasingly important over the post war years ( as opposed to portfolio investment , of which British capital has a long tradition ) , and that this phenomenon is especially important for the British economy . |
| 2 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
| 3 | The assertion that law is unsuitable or unable to deal with family and personal behaviour has a long history . |
| 4 | In Tanzania , for example , the Dodoma section of the semi-arid central region has a long history of both accelerated soil erosion and attempts at conservation . |
| 5 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 6 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 7 | More generally the idea of the inseparability of cultural and political revolution has a long history within the libertarian tradition with its roots in revolutionary Romanticism . |
| 8 | The technique of biomass gasification by partial combustion has a long history . |
| 9 | Bourgeois individualism has a long history of subversive bohemian variants ; and the struggle for control of the elements of counter cultural musical style was a struggle between different aspects of the same principle . |
| 10 | It may seem obvious to suggest that the level of understanding about purchasing among general practitioners and primary health care teams is extremely varied , but primary care has a long history of suffering from being physically distanced from other parts of the service and the discussions taking place there . |
| 11 | Biological research has a long and distinguished tradition in the University and the excellence of research within the Division is recognised nationally and internationally . |
| 12 | Indeed , the notion that the behaviour of financial institutions needs to be taken into account when examining the efficacy of monetary controls has a long , although perhaps not popular , pedigree . |
| 13 | Outside those sectors where temporary working has a long tradition , they have usually vigorously condemned it . |
| 14 | Most importantly the use of syntactic information has a long history in computational linguistics . |
| 15 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 16 | Political sociologists generally acknowledge that political science has a long , honourable and scholarly tradition of studying the apparatus of government and the state but worry about its tendency to consider this in relative isolation from its wider social context . |
| 17 | One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender . |
| 18 | The housing co-operative movement has a long pedigree in Scotland . |
| 19 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
| 20 | This young man has a long way to go if he 's to earn a PhD in Biology like his mum . |
| 21 | The idea of New Towns has a long pedigree , but it received its twentieth-century fillip through the garden city movement ( Osborn and Whittick , 1963 ) . |
| 22 | N. battus is characterised by having only one set of parallel rays in each bursal lobe while the female worm has a long pointed tail and the large egg is brownish with parallel sides . |
| 23 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 24 | ‘ But I rather think my modest , high-minded , fastidious , idealistic wife has a long way to go before she qualifies for that description . ’ |
| 25 | While the formal approach has a long tradition , manifested in innumerable volumes of grammar , the functional approach is less well documented . |