Example sentences of "have [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has rather long arms with slightly curved fingers , short legs and broad feet . |
| 2 | Has conspicuously long wings , with which it soars , wheels and glides like a harrier , in addition to normal slow , flapping owl-like flight , and wing-clapping circular display flight . |
| 3 | It has exceptionally long barbels and , when kept in confined spaces where it can not move these appendages freely , it will often take fright and dash around the aquarium , causing considerable damage not only to the tank decor , but to itself in extreme cases the fish has been known to leap from the tank . |
| 4 | It has exceptionally long barbels and , when kept in confined spaces where it can not move these appendages freely , it will often take fright and dash around the aquarium , causing considerable damage not only to the tank decor , but to itself . |
| 5 | bill rather stout lores dark and boldly patterned underparts ; Tawny Pipit adult has equally long tail but is much less streaked . |
| 6 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 7 | Brigadier and Mrs. Carter lived in a large house in Brown Street — he was fat , very pompous with a waxed moustache , having exceptionally long spikes ; Major Forbes from Fowlers Hill , who not only looked like but also dressed like King George V — whether by accident or design I do n't know , Mrs. Bowyer , the widow of an Australian Bishop who lived in Fowlers Road was very big and wore outsize hats which accentuated her size and finally the Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ . |
| 8 | For looking ahead even a mere 10 years or so , it is possible and even probable , that a much smaller proportion of people 's lives will be spent in paid employment ( Gilg , 1983c ) , and that people will retire earlier , work far fewer hours and days per week , and will have very long holidays , so that work can be shared around . |
| 9 | And of course what Mr does not refer to in any of his submissions n is the need for new settlements in that area to be have to have very long access roads . |
| 10 | And his 59 League goals are still within our top five since the war , although all the others had rather longer Palace careers than he did . |
| 11 | But those that came from arid islands and had to crane their necks in order to reach branches of cactus or leaves of trees , had much longer necks and a high peak to the front of their shells that enabled them to stretch their necks almost vertically upwards . |
| 12 | And since some senators had much longer names than others , jealousies soon arose . |
| 13 | The fore-arm alone was 2.5 metres long , but it was suggested that the creature had disproportionately long fore-limbs , possibly resembling a dinosaurian sloth . |
| 14 | I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster . |
| 15 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 16 | Watching him refill her glass , she noticed he had unusually long fingernails for a man . |
| 17 | Relatively speaking , says Bakker , dinosaurs had quite long shanks , but not as long as modern-day runners . |
| 18 | Grandson Richard had quite long hair , which also helped when it was time to climb up on to the shoulder . |
| 19 | A glance at the map on p. xii will show that the enlarged Aquitaine which the English had to defend had very long frontiers , vulnerable to small mobile forces which the French now used to excellent effect . |
| 20 | He had very long hair at the time and a beard , Lewis remembered , and looked as they all did like some kind of weird prophet . |
| 21 | Then suddenly , the man on his other side , who was dressed as a hippy and had very long hair , said ‘ How boring ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I had very long hair when Verity and the others first saw me , down below my shoulders , very thick and very curly . |
| 23 | it must have poured on us but I ca n't ever remember it raining You know there was when we used to go to Deerness I had very long hair and we And Kirkwall was n't just the cleanest of place at places at that time . |
| 24 | Victoria had very long legs and skirts seldom finished where they should on her . |
| 25 | He had very long hands , which were also covered in freckles and sported three gold rings . |
| 26 | P.P. 's responses had significantly longer latencies for the half-field contralateral to the lesion ( mean=1.84s , s.d. =1.67 ) compared to the good field ( mean=0.47s , s.d. =0.16 ; independent groups t=2.15 , P=0.05 ) , but there was no significant difference for L.A.H. ( affected field : mean=0.612s , s.d. =0.41 ; good field : mean=0.48 , s.d. =0.22 ) . |
| 27 | It is not surprising that the women who had epidural analgesia had significantly longer labours , a greater requirement for oxytocin , and a higher rate of instrumental delivery as such factors increase the need for epidural analgesia and therefore can not be assumed to result from it . |
| 28 | Patients had significantly longer transit times ( 9 v 7 and 17 v 11 seconds : p=0.027 and 0.002 for erect and supine postures respectively ) . |
| 29 | Other differences are that males have much longer finnage , and also a much more humped forehead . |
| 30 | In fact , as they are very difficult to sex — males have slightly longer finnage and slightly larger humping of the forehead — it is best to buy half a dozen young ones and let them pair naturally , usually when they get to 5–6″ , but sometimes as early as 4″ . |