Example sentences of "has a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dislike by Irish clerics for such an explicit and direct church — state relationship has a long tradition and comes out best in De Tocqueville 's ( 1957 ) conversations with Irish clergy on his visit to Ireland in 1834 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | We recall that the confessional idea has a long history . |
| 4 | There is a clear value in reducing the amount of chemical waste which has to be got rid of — and that thinking has a long way to go . |
| 5 | He has a long way to go before equalling last year 's prize money of £42,399 , but the wonder horse proved that he is again in irresistible form when opening Whitaker 's account with a first prize of £3,700 . |
| 6 | Westbury Homes , the Cheltenham-based group , also has a long land bank , but its main market , the West country , is relatively weak . |
| 7 | Like other key notions in psychoanalysis , the sense of desire as a quest for an always impossible self-completion in or through the other has a long though oft en unrecognized history . |
| 8 | Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history . |
| 9 | He believes it still has a long way to go . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What 's more it 's one that , contrary to composites ' up-to-the-minute image , has a long history in the specialist motor industry . |
| 14 | It has a long , narrow plan , the northern end of which may have been used for stabling horses or housing the cattle . |
| 15 | Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 19 | In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Gaselee , 53 , has a long history in racing in several capacities . |
| 24 | For cutting hedges by hand Sandvik 's well-balanced Professional Hedge Shear ( about £32 ) has a long reach and cuts very easily and cleanly . |
| 25 | But he has a long way to go to close down Sir Teddy 's 15,000 majority . |
| 26 | The stock still has a long way to go before its regains the 780p level at which its stood in early April before a warning of a slow-down in sales . |
| 27 | The other part , communication , still has a long way to go . |
| 28 | The LGC has a long tradition of providing support services and policy advice to the government . |
| 29 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
| 30 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |