Example sentences of "have a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Unfortunately , the latter insult is somewhat inaccurate : animators have a long history of injecting a little ‘ adult ’ spice into what is essentially a children 's medium . |
| 32 | ‘ The British have a long history of being inventive and in this current climate we are being inundated with new ideas , ’ says Richard Paine , marketing director of Inventalink , one of Britain 's biggest agencies which sells the ideas to commercial companies . |
| 33 | THE various parish schools of St Mary 's Cleator , have a long history of promises , delays , cancellations , fresh starts and demolitions . |
| 34 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 35 | In Germany , where discounters have a long history , they control a quarter of the market . |
| 36 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 37 | He admitted that this would involve ‘ a change in mentalities , ways of thinking and prejudices , all of which have a long history ’ . |
| 38 | The concepts of crystal settling and convection in magma chambers have a long history r2–6 . |
| 39 | Feminist thinking does not , of course , exist in a vacuum , and in thinking about women 's autonomy , feminists have drawn on different ( and conflicting ) approaches to questions about the human self , some of which have a long history . |
| 40 | The Orkneys and Shetland also have a long history of independence in local government terms and pride themselves on their Scandinavian roots and their distinctiveness from Scotland . |
| 41 | Although most nomadic tribes have a long history of weaving rugs specifically for trade , a number of items coming onto the western market may well have been made originally for personal use . |
| 42 | The marjorams all have a long history of use since classical times , and were more popular in the Middle Ages in Britain than thyme . |
| 43 | Families of people with a learning disability might welcome a less intense form of case management than that offered to single male schizophrenia sufferers who have a long history of compulsory admission to hospital . |
| 44 | In the secondary sector they have a long history of influence as local employers . |
| 45 | Other such opportunities might occur with people with recurring illness , or with couples considering divorce who have a long history of marital strife . |
| 46 | They have a long history of use in planning practice , there is a wide measure of consensus about their use in control and , where covered by policy , it tends to be as broad , flexible statements in structure or local plans , amplified in detail in supplementary planning guidance . |
| 47 | I do n't know it may be that I 'll be the only member er that talks in terms of a specific Euro seat er in any detail but it does matter in our area and we have a long history of arguing that case . |
| 48 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 49 | Elves and Dwarves have a long history of hate yet Legolas and Gimli become friends because they travel in Frodo 's company together . |
| 50 | ‘ We are going to develop inducements and encouragements for a major expansion of research and development , because if we are going to rival our major competitors we have a long way to go in catching up with them . |
| 51 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 52 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 53 | A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’ |
| 54 | If uranium prices are going to swing in favour of fast reactors , they have a long way to go . |
| 55 | I 'm fifty and have a long way to go . |
| 56 | You have a long way to go to win them back . |
| 57 | But markets provide useful competition with local banks , which have a long way to go before they learn to allocate capital efficiently . |
| 58 | Sadly one has to conclude , if the illustrations of lessons reported in the published text are anything to go by ( and one can hardly conceive that the team held back good lessons ) then we still have a long way to go before we can claim with confidence that drama on the curriculum guarantees good education . |
| 59 | The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level , although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go . |
| 60 | So it is clear we have a long way to go before we can store up all the experiences of humankind . |