Example sentences of "[vb -s] have a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments .
2 Home-grown : Edinburgh 's Royal Botanic Garden also has had a long involvement with the development of plants with medicinal properties
3 France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism .
4 Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed .
5 Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered .
6 Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing .
7 Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist !
8 Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site .
9 Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden .
10 If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it .
11 Jenkins has been in the job for about ten days , so she can be forgiven for forgetting a lot of names , but she does have a long history of dealing with elderly people .
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