Example sentences of "have a long [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 2 | Predator species have a long evolutionary history , and it is inferred that they have been as important in the past as accumulators of small mammal bone as they are today . |
| 3 | And then these overall evaluations change too , so you have a long evolutionary process here , you see , the working out of human evaluations , and while you wo n't get you wo n't get total agreement that the you will erm some sort of co-ordination and the particularly I argue that while there 's an area sort of in the middle , as it were , where you can get away with all sorts of things , you see , there are cliffs . |
| 4 | We have a long narrow area and the motorway has cut it in half . |
| 5 | We have a long narrow area and the motorway has cut it in half . |
| 6 | If you have n't come across foot-assisted trowels before these have a long tubular handle and work as the name suggests allowing the whole weight of the body to force the trowel into the ground , rather than just relying on the arm muscles . |
| 7 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 8 | Most inner city councils have a long socialist tradition which makes them even less popular with the government , and despite some recent softening of the government 's attitude , local authorities are still largely excluded from inner city initiatives . |
| 9 | The inhabitants , having colonised naturally , would be well-adapted to the local conditions ; no two commons would be alike ; and garden escapes , which are often very colourful and have a long flowering period , would be welcome . |
| 10 | The processes usually called upon to explain the distribution of art-styles have been , for the ‘ conforming type ’ ( those that have a long observable development ) diffusion , and for intrusive new types , migration and invasion . |