Example sentences of "have [art] long [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It noted that ‘ Corbett McDonald has a long history as a lobbyist for the asbestos industry . |
| 2 | Sheffield was a very different type of town , but like most other places that developed into great Victorian cities it had already had a long history as a market and craft centre . |
| 3 | To take one example , in November 1987 the North-West Regional News introduced by Stuart Hall had a long feature as their opening item : |
| 4 | A pupil of Dent Grammar School , Sedgwick became one of the founders of the science of geology and had a long career as Professor of Geology at Cambridge University , where he was buried in 1873 at the age of ninety-eight . |
| 5 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 6 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |