Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 31 | He slid a coin into the slot of the juke-box and let a long , chocolate finger trip over the buttons . |
| 32 | He would go to a bar late and sip a long drink very slowly . |
| 33 | More often than not the victims have serious medical problems , show a long history of social inadequacy , or are clearly suffering from mental illness . |
| 34 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 35 | Well , ter cut a long story short 'e ends up tellin' me that the last bloke was put off fer losin' too much time an' I might be a bad time-keeper as well , what wiv me injuries . |
| 36 | Cut a long strip of fondant to wrap around the bottom edge of the ship . |
| 37 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 38 | A short continuous crisis , the origins and consequences of which cover a long period , seems to be the double requirement of tragedy and its double relationship to time . |
| 39 | They are cheap , readily available , cover a long time-span , and are comprehensive in their coverage of social life . |
| 40 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 41 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 42 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 43 | Consider the long tendon that attaches at one end to the muscle flexor digitorum profundus and at its other end to digit 3 . |
| 44 | Only after several days does it fuse with the egg and so complete the long process of fertilisation . |
| 45 | In this report we assess the long term ( 5–7 year ) survival , exercise capacity , perceived quality of life , and employment in these 18 patients . |
| 46 | Once you have seen which publishers might be interested in your novel , you begin the long process of sending it to one after another . |
| 47 | As we begin the long curve and haul out of the city , rain spots the windshield . |
| 48 | Oxford United begin the long climb from the bottom . |
| 49 | It says : ’ Such concentration on meeting the Government guarantee , and use of funds originally earmarked for other purposes for YT , inevitably means that other aspects of our proposed programme may suffer and that we also neglect the long term development of Youth Training itself . ’ |
| 50 | Here , too , there are debates over what mechanisms underlie the long cycles and to what extent their causes are internal to the capitalist system or derive from external factors . |
| 51 | ‘ We recall the long established principle of the UK Parliament , stretching back to 1860 and before , and reasserted even during the dark days of the Second World War , against taxing knowledge , reading , ideas and the demand for literacy and information . |
| 52 | Under the supervision of ‘ Nobby ’ Clarke , many younger visitors and adults enjoy the long ride of half a mile alongside the standard gauge platforms . |
| 53 | Consider a long addition of , say , some thirty numbers . |
| 54 | Assuming that its purpose has been determined , once the machine arrives there are several steps that can be taken to maintain its good condition and ensure a long life . |
| 55 | If you subsequently assign a longer string to the variable there will be insufficient room for it and the string will have to occupy a different area in memory . |
| 56 | Sadly , we agreed , such prospects lie a long way off . |
| 57 | The menfolk have an aged , craggy appearance , being hunch-backed from their hard labour , and wear a long grey beard . |
| 58 | ‘ Wear a long flowing linen dress rather than a short straight one that will show creases . ’ |
| 59 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |
| 60 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |