Example sentences of "[art] very long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is elicited , after the very long delay of 400 msec , by the visual presentation of a semantically improbable word ( for example , the word ‘ socks ’ in ‘ He spread the warm bread with socks ’ ) . |
| 2 | Helpful hint : skip the very long first half and take your seat after the interval . |
| 3 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 4 | For although we frequently find in paintings of this period that a number of consecutive scenes are represented simultaneously in one picture , in other ways temporal considerations came to exert a decisive influence — in particular , causing painting a secco to replace al fresco , or true fresco , since the very long apprenticeship that pupils had to serve before they became proficient in fresco painting could not be maintained , and a successful painter had to work fast in order to handle all the commissions that he received . |
| 5 | The aim is to minimise costs in the very long term but the important question is the extent to which this may conflict with the short-run costs of pursuing diversity . |
| 6 | In the very long term , automated machinery is likely to incorporate automatic diagnostic equipment in order to simplify maintenance , but it is not obvious that this will necessarily reduce the skill content of craft maintenance work . |
| 7 | In the very long run , the actions of a Colombian warlord may reverberate in your family , but railing against him is a waste of time . |
| 8 | ‘ I flung my arms round her and we walked the very long way to the terminal in the pouring rain and it did n't matter at all . ’ |
| 9 | Cecil recalls that one of the bases was Great Ashfield and other Woodbridge , one of the three emergency strips located on the east coast , Cecil particularly recalling the very long runway there . |
| 10 | Erlich , rookie Fed , had demanded of the local police that they get a man up there , up to the nests , that they get each of the nests down , that they sift each of the nests on the very long chance that the storks had lifted a fibre of torn clothing to bind a nest wall . |
| 11 | Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry . |
| 12 | First , workers as the majority group in the electorate might rationally choose to maintain capitalism , not because they are duped by the dominant ideology but because their individual interests are better met under redistributive capitalism than through a painful transition to socialism , which could only conceivably deliver net benefits in the very long run . |
| 13 | He writes : ‘ It seems to me that a great number of our explicit or implicit theories , our methods and preferences are heavily influenced by the very long traditions of analyzing mainly , or only , certain kinds of written language . |
| 14 | Close beside Xi is the huge eclipsing binary VV Cephei , which has the very long period of 7430 days ; the next eclipse is not due until 1996 , when the magnitude will drop from its usual 4.9 to about 5.2 . |
| 15 | They had been long debated , but it should be emphasized how few individuals at this time believed that poverty could actually be eliminated , except perhaps in the very long run . |
| 16 | In 1911 Churchill , by then Home Secretary , introduced a Shops Act , the subject of a long campaign led by Sir Charles Dilke and female trade unionists , which established a half-day closing each week , thus reducing the very long hours worked by shop assistants but without increasing job opportunities . |
| 17 | Certainly he did not regard large-scale state intervention as having any effect except in the very long term , since the causal conditions are located ultimately in cultural attitudes , not in the factors on which state intervention operates . |
| 18 | The government promised a White Paper on student finance , but the very long delay before it finally appeared in November 1988 suggests that there were problems in devising a suitable alternative to grants . |
| 19 | So , if multimedia is going to get established in other than the very long term , it is more likely to be delivered by a low cost stand-alone system such as CDTV , CD-I or even DVI , if a low cost dedicated player can be devised . |
| 20 | It is a burden that Russia could do without , but at least it is far cheaper than maintaining an army of occupation in what Richard III might have called the very long winter of discontent . |
| 21 | There are limitations to the use of scintigraphy in children with pseudo-obstruction , such as the very long transit time for orally ingested capsules to reach the colon , the impossibility of peroral cannulation of the right colon , and the poor patient cooperation with lying quietly under a gamma camera . |
| 22 | It was reorganised in 1721 ; and from the 1750s onwards the foreign policies of the monarchy were given greater continuity by a purely personal factor — the very long tenure of the post of Court and State Chancellor , for over forty years from his appointment in 1753 , by Prince Wenzel von Kaunitz-Rietberg . |
| 23 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 24 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 25 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
| 26 | This may be reasonably safe with a very long tow rope , but if there is only a shorter length of rope available the glider may overrun and smash into the back of the car , causing hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage to the glider . |
| 27 | The drink theme too , broadly understood , goes back a very long way . |
| 28 | This sequence could not occur in The Possessed — a dangerous thing to say about a very long and diverse book , but true . |
| 29 | The result can be a very long document in a complicated coding scheme , but it forms a powerful description of design information without any compromise made in accuracy . |
| 30 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |