Example sentences of "have a long [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's an excellent under-body insulator and has a long effective life . |
| 2 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
| 3 | The Bangor event , the richest 10K road race in Ireland , has a long Kenyan tradition . |
| 4 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |
| 5 | In Holland , STIVA has a long established reputation for helping young people to drink responsibly . |
| 6 | ‘ Transport ’ ( line 2 ) means ‘ rapturous emotion ’ ; ‘ vicissitude ’ ( line 4 ) has a long poetic history going back to Milton — it means ‘ alternation ’ , or ‘ change of circumstances ’ . |
| 7 | Further colour and splendour is brought to the occasion by the gold trimmed gowns and hats of the senior University officers : the Pro-Chancellors , the Vice-Chancellor and the Chancellor , whose gown has a long heavy train carried by his page . |
| 8 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 9 | Her skin is blue-black , she has a long red tongue , and snakes twine about her body . |
| 10 | It has a long historical lineage but the most sophisticated explanation is that given by Diplock L.J. , as he then was . |
| 11 | Called Myrmecobius , it has a long thin snout for poking into ants ' nests , and a long sticky tongue with which it mops up its prey . |
| 12 | Ideal dairy land has a long growing season , no summer drought period , a stable soil structure with good drainage to avoid excessive poaching , and an unfailing water supply . |
| 13 | The body is long and slender , with a pointed head and it has a long pointed snout that forms a ‘ bill ’ . |
| 14 | The spiny anteater , too , has a long pointed snout , but its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog rather than to another typical anteater . |
| 15 | N. battus is characterised by having only one set of parallel rays in each bursal lobe while the female worm has a long pointed tail and the large egg is brownish with parallel sides . |
| 16 | The fruit has a long pointed protrusion , rather like a bird 's beak , and that 's how it gets the geranium name , meaning ‘ crane ’ . |
| 17 | And it was apparently during that hospital visit that Ross and his brother had had a long serious talk about what would be best for the children . |
| 18 | Please for god 's sake stop playing Fairclough at the back — the defence is a shambles when he 's there — quite honestly I 'm getting pretty pissed off with Wilko — i know we 've had a long unbeaten run and we 're still second and he 's won us the championship etc etc and this is defenitely over reaction to last night but get rid of the fucking bastard and find us someone who 'll pick teams that can beat the Norwich 's and Man Utd7s of the league or we 'll be perenial mid table finishers . |
| 19 | We had had a long wet day on the moors but in the late afternoon the weather cleared . |
| 20 | Three hours later I had had three whole contractions , still had a long thin cervix and the medics moved in . |
| 21 | The drill itself is a different shape to most models , having a long slender handle and snub-nosed body . |
| 22 | Now I 'm going to have a long cold drink in a quiet garden with my daughter and her new young man . |
| 23 | So straightaway there there is absolutely no reason at all for me to have a long barrelled weapon |
| 24 | It had a long colonial veranda and a high cupola , while the terminus of the railway , Tank Road Station at the docks , had a tower which made it an aid to ships navigating the harbour . |
| 25 | Over her orange-blossom headdress she had a long flowing veil which flowed down her back ; her dress of white satin rustled and crinkled as she walked . |
| 26 | He had a long criminal record at Scotland Yard and was currently on their wanted list for a variety of crimes , the most serious being the murder of an East End gangster . |
| 27 | She had a long pleated dress and bare toes under it , a very young face and long curly hair , and she held a bunch of corn . |
| 28 | Six feet tall , he was in his forties , had a long bony face tapering to a pointed jaw . |
| 29 | She said , ‘ Well , he had a long white beard and robe of course . |
| 30 | Garry had a long thin body , giving him a waif-like appearance . |