Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The result is that shops use a work-in-process inventory to buffer themselves against problems and uncertainties , a situation where each station has a long queue of semifinished elements . |
| 32 | As outlined earlier , low temperatures past and present are also indicated by the evidence that the Moon has a long history of outer rigidity . |
| 33 | The Oxenhope Straw Race has a long way to go before it reaches its centenary , but the aims of the people who organise it and take part are the same as those who in the nineteenth century began the hospital sings at Holmfirth and Mapplewell . |
| 34 | Nothing much between the two teams on form … they 're two places and eight points apart … both are in the frame for the play-off places but the promotion race has a long way to go yet … |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | This of course might be due to the fact that the sample as a whole has a long working week ; it certainly contradicts the impression given by the women themselves that ‘ women 's work is never done ’ : |
| 37 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 38 | A dislike by Irish clerics for such an explicit and direct church — state relationship has a long tradition and comes out best in De Tocqueville 's ( 1957 ) conversations with Irish clergy on his visit to Ireland in 1834 . |
| 39 | The 17.5 per cent stake represents roughly a quarter of Anglia 's market capitalisation , but David McCall , chief executive , said he believed ‘ the share price has a long way to go yet ’ . |
| 40 | During a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against NMFS to compel observer coverage of the total US tuna fleet , the legal counsel for Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund stated : ‘ The National Marine Fisheries Service has a long history of ignoring the will of Congress and working closely with the fishing industry . |
| 41 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 42 | That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law . |
| 43 | Opposition to a fixed European exchange rate has a long history within the Labour movement . |
| 44 | Similarly , in England football hooliganism has a long history . |
| 45 | The housing co-operative movement has a long pedigree in Scotland . |
| 46 | Public expenditure control has a long history dating back to the early eighteenth century . |
| 47 | I SPENT most of Friday morning having a long talk with Paul Seddon — Assistant Commissioner Seddon , who is our department 's special representative at New Scotland Yard . |
| 48 | Terry used his limited Arabic to have a long conversation with another visitor who suggested that an American would go home soon with the Irishman and then , after a little while , during which our governments were expected to ‘ make the next step ’ , another American with a Briton and so on . |
| 49 | On the contrary , the idea of the Kingdom had a long history in the life of Israel , and the coming of Christ coincided with a feverish wave of expectancy within the nation . |
| 50 | For example , the ( now held to be correct ) notion that prolonged lactation was likely to delay impregnation had a long resonance . |
| 51 | Both orchestra and conductor have a long list of international commitments every year . |
| 52 | The study of the state has a long history in the social sciences . |
| 53 | This young man has a long way to go if he 's to earn a PhD in Biology like his mum . |
| 54 | National Assistance which followed on Poor Law Relief has a long history . |
| 55 | It is not surprising , then , to find that the clause has a long career in the documents . |
| 56 | Outside those sectors where temporary working has a long tradition , they have usually vigorously condemned it . |
| 57 | While the formal approach has a long tradition , manifested in innumerable volumes of grammar , the functional approach is less well documented . |
| 58 | But the intelligence fraternity has a long track record of trying to fool others and in the process usually ends up fooling itself . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |