Example sentences of "have a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE QUEEN 'S HEAD , said to be a 14th Century inn has a long gallery , now glassed in , facing east , but it is not an original structure . |
| 2 | This of course might be due to the fact that the sample as a whole has a long working week ; it certainly contradicts the impression given by the women themselves that ‘ women 's work is never done ’ : |
| 3 | He might have added : But he has a long memory for those that let him down . |
| 4 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | If the individual has a long position , his actual rate of return over the one-year holding period ( rh ) ( assuming T= I ) is . |
| 6 | The UK group has a long standing commitment , made to the Hong Kong Government , to broaden the shareholder base of Hong Kong Telecom and a deal with CITIC would be consistent with that . |
| 7 | Guinness has a long standing tradition of community involvement dating back to the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | For cutting hedges by hand Sandvik 's well-balanced Professional Hedge Shear ( about £32 ) has a long reach and cuts very easily and cleanly . |
| 9 | The interior is finely preserved ( 263 ) and has a long nave , with barrel vaulted aisles , broad transepts and a fine apse with groined vault . |
| 10 | The competition will tell you that their product is fresh , takes advantage of advances in program writing and has a long development life ahead of it . |
| 11 | Additionally , the needle has a long groove in its front face . |
| 12 | And she said er Angela said to her oh poor Neil has to stays in bed until one o'clock every Saturday and then on Sunday he has a he gets up late and then he has a long rest in the afternoon and Pam said to me he 's copping out . |
| 13 | But the land is zoned for housing and Southwark has a long waiting list . |
| 14 | And war , once started , has a long road to run . |
| 15 | Westbury Homes , the Cheltenham-based group , also has a long land bank , but its main market , the West country , is relatively weak . |
| 16 | ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods . |
| 17 | We recall that the confessional idea has a long history . |
| 18 | Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history . |
| 19 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 20 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 21 | More generally the idea of the inseparability of cultural and political revolution has a long history within the libertarian tradition with its roots in revolutionary Romanticism . |
| 22 | What 's more it 's one that , contrary to composites ' up-to-the-minute image , has a long history in the specialist motor industry . |
| 23 | During a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against NMFS to compel observer coverage of the total US tuna fleet , the legal counsel for Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund stated : ‘ The National Marine Fisheries Service has a long history of ignoring the will of Congress and working closely with the fishing industry . |
| 24 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 25 | In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject . |
| 26 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 27 | Gaselee , 53 , has a long history in racing in several capacities . |
| 28 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |
| 29 | In fact , this is probably , the most completely original church from the sixteenth-century in Milan and has a long history of being attended by the rich and powerful . |
| 30 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |