Example sentences of "[adv] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercifully the Long Island Expressway , which Mrs Meadows had warned them might well be one long traffic jam , was proving to be relatively uncrowded . |
| 2 | Slowly the long train wound past the derelict shanty-town houses between the water and the tracks where Malcolm Lowry was writing his great novel , ‘ Under the Volcano ’ , straight to the Pacific terminal of the transcontinental railway . |
| 3 | I think the main reason for so many wasps this year is to , warm summers , and but it 's basically the long summer period , because we started , you see on the wasp complaints in May , which we do n't really start until half way through June , and we kept going right through , right until the middle of October , and they normally stop round the end of August , so that 's the main reason ; a very long , hot summer . |
| 4 | Perhaps the long hard walk would help her . |
| 5 | The IDA 's success in attracting Raybestos Manhattan led to perhaps the longest and most bitter struggle against a multinational in Ireland . |
| 6 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 7 | Carr : Yes , obviously the long term contract brings stability which will allow us to maximise training to achieve higher levels of flexibility and efficiency in offshore working . |
| 8 | And so the long lease was dreamt up by Grand Metropolitan and taken up with enthusiasm by the rest of the national pub owners and brewers . |
| 9 | The long back legs of such hunters look highly suitable for running , and as they did so the long tail may have been held erect as a kind of counter-balance ( see p. 116 ) . |
| 10 | So the long one squared Does nine squared equal seven squared plus five squared . |
| 11 | So the longest side is |
| 12 | So the longer side is always the hypotenuse . |
| 13 | But there was hardly any left , only the long empty expanse from the last container to the door in the super-structure that led down to Nell . |
| 14 | Only the long pin-striped right leg , shuddering uncontrollably , betrayed his nerves . |
| 15 | It was hard to read his voice ; there was no tone in it , only the long lonesome cadence . |
| 16 | He turned away from them , and rode onwards to where the Circle began to grow more empty to the north , and soon there was only the long bar of the outer wall between him and the hills . |
| 17 | His hair was almost black , heavy and smoothly groomed , swept back from a face that was icily cold , only the long , humorous-looking mouth telling her that this hostility was solely for her benefit and not some natural mannerism . |
| 18 | Therefore , the DNA upstream of DH site II is critical , as only the Long transgenics show a strict site-independent integration and copy number-dependent expression of the Ea construct ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 19 | Playing two fewer matches , they finished only one try and 50 points short of their records and , in winning all 37 matches after losing to New Zealand in October 1989 , put together the longest sequence of victories by any Welsh senior club since the war . |
| 20 | Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support . |
| 21 | Er , various changes in planning proposals erm , and indeed erm encouraging travellers who are perhaps no long travellers , those who are resident on the sites to move progressively into government housing . |
| 22 | Suddenly a long arm came out from under the rags and a bony hand grasped Marian 's shoulder . |
| 23 | : I was playing football on the playing field at HMS Ganges when suddenly a long bugle call playing the Still sounded from the tannoy system . |
| 24 | She miss you velly much a long time . |
| 25 | If the report has to be in a statutory format ( eg a long form report ) check the required format while drafting to avoid amending later . |
| 26 | Particular care is needed where reports are prepared and it is believed that a person other than the client will have access to the report and may seek to rely upon it ( eg a long form report prepared for a vendor prior to sale ) . |
| 27 | If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls . |
| 28 | The Governor 's position is shrewdly summed up by one observer : ‘ A deal with Nkrumah and the CPP would give the British a breathing space , perhaps a long one . ’ |
| 29 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |
| 30 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |