Example sentences of "have the long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference from RP can be appreciated quite easily by reference to the pair can , ca n't : can has the long back vowel predicted by the single nasal environment , whereas can ‘ t has the short front vowel predicted by the nasal + voiceless obstruent environment ( compare also dance , ranch , etc. , which are short , front ) . |
| 2 | Equally , Lyell has the long succession of faunas and floras brought about by a continual , one-by-one extinction of species and their replacement by new ones . |
| 3 | down and worked out how many days he 's had the long wheelbase this week . |
| 4 | Nights when ops were on were not so hectic now that the boys did not have the long runs to Berlin and Nuremburg , just specific targets in France and western Germany . |
| 5 | If those resources had been given three or four years ago , we would not have the long delays that lead to so much misery , and the small number of non-genuine asylum seekers would not be here for longer than we would all want . |
| 6 | He was up for a western , and he had the long hair , but after school he went to a barber and had his head shaved . |
| 7 | Where had the long silences gone , Molly wondered , into which she used to retreat in the company of her parents ? |
| 8 | That he had the long record of offenses , mainly dishonesty and some for violence against the police . |
| 9 | As thin as ever without an ounce of excess fat , he had the long face and gaunt look of the true desert Arab . |
| 10 | Following this we have the long period of isostatic emergence , rapid weathering of the new mountains with the formation of molasse-type deposits , widespread red bed sedimentation and also perhaps a period of glaciation , before peneplanation , widespread marine transgressions and the recommencement of the cycle in new troughs . |