Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] from [art] long " in BNC.

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1 It is possible to see the weather from a long way off , but as the people at Old Slains know , the weather then arrives at such speed over the surface of the North Sea that seeing it approach seems hardly sufficient warning .
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 The warder peered through the observation slot then selected a key from the long chain that dangled from his belt .
4 Pemberton hit the post from a long way out for Leeds .
5 Here it grates more than usually , despite British voices in the mix : the unmistakable tones of Maggie Smith ; Bob Hoskins taking a break from a long run of phoney American accents to play a cockney Smee .
6 Here it grates more than usually , despite British voices in the mix : the unmistakable tones of Maggie Smith ; Bob Hoskins taking a break from a long run of phoney American accents to play a cockney Smee .
7 In such a way a child 's promptness might save a soul from the long blankness of Limbo , or a child 's inattention or failure of nerve condemn it to years of the deadliest waiting until the day of Judgement , held still in the amber of the centuries .
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