Example sentences of "have [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Equally , Lyell has the long succession of faunas and floras brought about by a continual , one-by-one extinction of species and their replacement by new ones .
2 This region has the longer history of continuous occupation by tundra , for at no time during the post-glacial period was it invaded by forest .
3 Red has the longest wavelength of visible light , and violet the shortest .
4 Each format has its own cassette design ( anticlockwise from top ) : VHS is the largest in size and has the longest runtime of up to four hours ( PAL ) ; VHS-C cassettes are more compact but the runtime is reduced to a maximum of 1 ½ hours ( Long Play ) ; Video 8 has the smallest cassettes but runs for up to four hours ( LP ) .
5 The US has the longest tradition of natural gas use of any country in the world .
6 She , the ‘ bootlace ’ of Latin America , has the longest coastline of any country on the Pacific — 3,317 miles , longer by far than the entire Pacific coastline of Australia , which is a mere 2,450 miles from Cape York to Tasmania .
7 Despite my files tellin me this month has the longest list of genre titles , it is the one with least to offer .
8 He might have added : But he has a long memory for those that let him down .
9 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 .
10 Additionally , the needle has a long groove in its front face .
11 And she said er Angela said to her oh poor Neil has to stays in bed until one o'clock every Saturday and then on Sunday he has a he gets up late and then he has a long rest in the afternoon and Pam said to me he 's copping out .
12 It noted that ‘ Corbett McDonald has a long history as a lobbyist for the asbestos industry .
13 ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods .
14 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 .
15 Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window .
16 In fact , this is probably , the most completely original church from the sixteenth-century in Milan and has a long history of being attended by the rich and powerful .
17 It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder .
18 The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings .
19 Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates .
20 The CAB has a long history of mobilising professionals such as lawyers , accountants and surveyors , to advise clients on a voluntary basis but there are very few lawyers who specialise in welfare benefits or money advice .
21 Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation .
22 Egypt is another example of a country which , like Pakistan and China , has a long history of irrigation , in this case in the Nile Valley ( section 3.4.2 ) beginning some 5 kyr BP .
23 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 .
24 The region has a long history of human activity ( section 3.2.1 ) , and although erosion has always been a problem it has intensified considerably in the last 100 years as deforestation has accelerated and grasslands have been degraded .
25 One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender .
26 But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans .
27 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 .
28 Social theory of the family has a long history of debate on structural explanations , that is on whether family types adapt as appropriate to the social and economic world .
29 North Shields has a long history of democratic local government and is currently under the political control of the most left-wing Labour authority in the North East .
30 Objectivity is itself an ideal which has a long history of identification with the masculine .
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