Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 2 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
| 3 | And their bride has to wear er , all in red and er the bridegroo er groom has to wear a long costume with a red big flowers in front i aha and then they get married and there 's erm band , the Chinese traditional band with drums and trumpets blowing all the time and er , all the guests have a very nice time . |
| 4 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |
| 5 | If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it . |
| 6 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 7 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 8 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 9 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 10 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 11 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 12 | If you are wearing trousers you 'll have to wear a long top so it does n't show anything . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll have to wear a long coat . |
| 14 | But do n't pick up any more thorns , Hlao-roo , because we may have to go a long way . " |
| 15 | ‘ You would have to go a long way to see a better game than that . |
| 16 | oh it 's not my type mm Penny 's having to wait a long while for her birthday is n't she ? , |
| 17 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 18 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 19 | You do n't have to write a long article . |
| 20 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
| 21 | He said : ‘ If he does n't select and stalk his victim , and obviously he did n't in the last three cases , he 'd normally have to expect a long wait . |
| 22 | They are most grateful for a pump within yards of their homes , instead of having to walk a long way to a dirty water-hole . |
| 23 | And I think it w w was quite difficult for people because they 'd either have to walk a long way to try and make a telephone call . |
| 24 | We might have to look a long way back . ’ |
| 25 | A path is simply a set of instructions like that , but you do n't have to type a long string of commands to do the job . |
| 26 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 27 | I shall have to have a long talk with the Lord beforehand . ’ |
| 28 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
| 29 | ‘ Undoubtedly , you would have to think a long while before knowing which you prefer . ’ |
| 30 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |