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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Watching him refill her glass , she noticed he had unusually long fingernails for a man . |
| 13 | Relatively speaking , says Bakker , dinosaurs had quite long shanks , but not as long as modern-day runners . |
| 14 | Grandson Richard had quite long hair , which also helped when it was time to climb up on to the shoulder . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then suddenly , the man on his other side , who was dressed as a hippy and had very long hair , said ‘ How boring ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I had very long hair when Verity and the others first saw me , down below my shoulders , very thick and very curly . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Victoria had very long legs and skirts seldom finished where they should on her . |
| 21 | He had very long hands , which were also covered in freckles and sported three gold rings . |
| 22 | Most Escherichia coli promoters studied so far form stable open complexes with σ 70 -RNA polymerase which have relatively long half-lives and , therefore , are resistant to a competitor challenge . |
| 23 | Most promoters analyzed in detail , which correspond to Escherichia coli , form open complexes with RNA polymerase that are essentially irreversible in vitro , in the sense that they have relatively long half-lives ( in the range of several minutes to hours , refs. 3 , 4 , 6 , 7 ) , and are therefore resistant to the challenge of competitors such as heparin or heterologous DNA . |
| 24 | Supercoiling also stimulates the formation of open complexes at several promoters in which these complexes have relatively long half-lives ( 24 , 25 ) . |
| 25 | The leaves are arranged in a rosette , and have very long stalks . |
| 26 | ‘ Obviously they have very long memories but I am not going to get involved in any more comments , ’ added the former Gloucester , Worcester and England batsman and BBC commentator . |
| 27 | Herbivores typically have very long guts containing various kinds of fermenting bacteria , since grass is a poor-quality food and needs a lot of digesting . |
| 28 | These radioactive elements have very long half-lives , so the flux of radiation is effectively constant for the archaeological periods of interest in TL dating . |
| 29 | Some crops have very long straw and even with modern machines it 's a bit like hitting a brick wall . ’ |