Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] [prep] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a little after ten o'clock by the time the three men gathered in the council chamber over the post office and unrolled the plans on the long oak table . |
| 2 | A new rule published on 31 March in the Federal Register exempts the crops from the long process required for a permit and allows biotechnology companies to carry out experiments with corn , cotton , tomatoes , soybeans , tobacco and potatoes after notifying USDA in a letter and waiting 30 days . |
| 3 | He ‘ valued himself upon the sieges and services he had been in ’ ; and as a military expert he drew the attention of the Long Parliament ( summoned on 3 November 1640 ) to the danger from the Irish army under the command of Thomas Wentworth , first Earl of Strafford [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | I propose a toast to the long life , health , wealth , and happy marriage , of Annabelle and Steven . |
| 5 | He felt clear headed enough to tackle the remainder of the long journey north . |
| 6 | It eliminated the need to grow acres of turnips or grain to feed the animals during the long winter months . |
| 7 | Few experts can beat the market in the long run , so keeping up with it is a reasonable option . |
| 8 | The dams etc may also have been designed to attract industry and so benefit the country in the long term . |
| 9 | Fertility recovered a little from its 1977 low ( figure 4.4 ) but by 1980 this recovery was spent , at a level still below that needed to replace the population in the long run . |
| 10 | The warder peered through the observation slot then selected a key from the long chain that dangled from his belt . |
| 11 | Relatively comfortable himself , Charsky suffered every moment of the long night with Kurz . |
| 12 | ‘ On safari Count von Gottberg wanted us to install a shelf in the long drop . ’ |
| 13 | He was trembling now , he hated the thought of the long hours of the day dividing him from his hope . |
| 14 | But the Baptism of Jesus did not merely see the end of the long silence , and God 's declaration that in Jesus the role of the Servant and the Son had converged : the age-long drought of the Holy Spirit was ended too . |
| 15 | After a site has been filled in again only artefacts , notebooks and the photographic record remain to aid the archaeologist in the long post-excavation period when he or she has to decide what it all meant , and publish details of what was found . |
| 16 | ( This is because equalizing the value of the long and short positions requires that N 1 F 1 = N s F s , and so p = N s /N 1 = F l /F s ) . |
| 17 | The Royal Fine Art Commission , while regretting the loss of the long facade by Kirkland , felt that a tall building was needed to act as a gateway from the M8 . |
| 18 | All the time Wyn lived next to him in a nurses ' home , helping every day on the long haul to some form of recovery . |
| 19 | Right now she could n't even face the thought of the long drive home — but a short rest would set her back on her feet again . |
| 20 | The God he had seen , or half seen , while riding a tricycle down the long cobbled road which passed the house where he had been born . |
| 21 | On Feb. 28 , 1989 , the New York state Governor , Mario Cuomo , signed an agreement with the Long Island Light Co. to close the $5,500 million nuclear reactor in Shoreham , Long Island , following pressure from environmentalist groups . |
| 22 | The man pulled the car into the long , wet grass by the roadside . |
| 23 | But companies that are willing to take the time to lay this solid foundation will gain the edge in the long run . |
| 24 | If the project is to be judged a success in the long term , it must be seen not only to have engaged children and staff in project schools in new ways of perceiving and using libraries , but also to have created a viable and dynamic framework for the further development and dissemination of good practice . |
| 25 | Similarly , an increase in the number of brands on offer may be a consumer gain , even though it reduces the probability of new suppliers entering the market in the long run . |
| 26 | As the knife darted towards her like a hawk 's beak , she glimpsed iron grey hair in a bun , and saw the swish of the long , faded dress . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm . |
| 28 | The words of the song in turn harked back to the noble deeds of the Germanic Saxons whose tribal name meant the men of the long knives . |
| 29 | As they reached the bottom of the long straight pitch over Milbury Heath , Yanto turned right towards the small town of Thornbury . |
| 30 | Even before Tasker and Boardman had set off on their last attempt Bonington and Adrian Gordon — the base camp manager — decided that they would go up the mountain to help with the descent from the North Col , concerned that if Tasker and Boardman reached the summit by the long ridge above the pinnacles , they would be close to collapse on their descent . |