Example sentences of "have [art] long [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red light has the longest wavelength and violet the shortest , with orange , yellow , green and blue in between . |
| 2 | Dimensions — The Clio feels like a larger car to drive because it has the longest wheelbase and widest track in its class . |
| 3 | For cutting hedges by hand Sandvik 's well-balanced Professional Hedge Shear ( about £32 ) has a long reach and cuts very easily and cleanly . |
| 4 | It has a long history and in 1843 twelve Bronze Age artefacts and two portions of a sword were found whilst digging a drain . |
| 5 | The matter has a long history and is illustrative of how law can lag behind what is thought to be economically desirable . |
| 6 | As we pointed out earlier , the kind of model for insider evaluation that Shipman proposes has a long history and there is little evidence that it has been significantly displaced by newer alternatives . |
| 7 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 8 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Although this matting is new in the UK , it has a long record or success in countries where ceramic floor tiles are more widely used . |
| 11 | He has a long nose and a long face . |
| 12 | To illustrate , let us consider the case of a word overlapping with two other candidates , the first of which has a long definition and the second has a short definition . |
| 13 | Savory has a longer history than sage , though not considered to be as useful medicinally . |
| 14 | If the English writer stops short of uncritical adulation , and also has a longer memory than the Americans for the loathsome politics that Pound was infected by , that is all to the good . |
| 15 | Visible light has a longer wavelength than UV radiation . |
| 16 | It happens to be a physical fact that the light that we call red has a longer wavelength than the light that we call blue . |
| 17 | The crab has a longer body than the other species shown here , and the legs are flattened and held away from the carapace . |
| 18 | The two noddies are fairly similar , but the lesser has a longer beak and the brown , as its name suggests , has a paler brown back . |
| 19 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
| 20 | I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best . |
| 21 | He jumps at home only when he has had a long rest and needs a quick reminder of what the job is all about ; otherwise his jumping is confined to the shows . |
| 22 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
| 23 | Did n't have a long walk or anything so the next schedule go out is erm is |
| 24 | We 'll have a longer talk when I 'm home again . ’ |
| 25 | To achieve this ISO must have a longer lifetime than IRAS . |
| 26 | ‘ I really ought to be going , ’ said Penelope , ‘ what with having a long journey and work tomorrow . ’ |
| 27 | This gives complete pain relief and is helpful for women having a long labour or who are getting very distressed , but it has disadvantages in that it obviously makes women feel quite passive and helpless . |
| 28 | The hooligan , however , tends to have the longer career since part of his art lies in knowing how far to ‘ push his luck ’ . |
| 29 | As thin as ever without an ounce of excess fat , he had the long face and gaunt look of the true desert Arab . |
| 30 | There was Britain — the country with which Iran had the longest association and with which many Iranians had an almost neurotic relationship . |