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

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1 This ceremony , called puja , involves the recitation of a long list of seers and gods to show the ‘ pedigree ’ of a mantra .
2 IntelliDraw is by far the most interesting drawing package to hit the market for a long time .
3 The A.87 now crosses the loch on a long causeway with a warning of high winds , but even in calm weather the former road continuing up the valley to round the head of the loch , at the cost of two extra miles , is to be preferred .
4 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 .
5 Mr Morris added : ‘ We have pressed the Government for a long time to have a look at the hill farming situation .
6 I will say that because as , we have n't heard the end by a long way for , of this one .
7 In the home market , it led the field by a long way , with 4,337,487 units sold ; Pan came next , with 2,181,514 .
8 We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage .
9 The air was permeated with Moorlake 's own particular smell , a blend of wood-smoke , of beeswax , of damp , of her aunt 's home-made potpourri in the big bowl on the table , of age , a characteristic scent of which Sara was always aware when she entered the house after a long absence but pane and , idly , Sara tried to open the window .
10 In 1987 33 per cent of the population , 35 per cent of females and 32 per cent of males , reported the presence of a long standing illness .
11 ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had .
12 Viruses have come a heck of a long way since we last took an in-depth look at anti-virus software back in November 1990 .
13 ‘ I 've come a hell of a long way , you know .
14 George , the sacrificial dummy , had n't emitted a squeak for a long time .
15 It was during the late 1770s that the long proposed Stroudwater canal became a reality and this signalled the start of a long war of words between the Company of Proprietors and the Purnells .
16 This signalled the start of a long association between Biddle and Stratford Mills , the site being adopted as his main base of operation in the Stroud area .
17 Oldfield excited the crowd with a long run from the halfway line and when he back-heeled the ball to Mills the full-back hit his shot against a post .
18 You prepared me to lead a family on a long journey .
19 Some people are jumping tomorrow , but they are those who have not done a jump for a long time ; I expect I shall do another before leave comes off . ’
20 One can not be surprised when , quite apart from reservations in the social worker himself about handling sexual matters , the worker has a strong sense that , if he even tries , his particular behind may mark the end of a long chain of kicks !
21 Carver as a learned composer , and clearly conversant with some of his English contemporaries , but it was surely worth noting that evidence , however tantalisingly fragmentary , exists to suggest the existence of a long pre-Reformation Scottish tradition of Faburden singing , of which Pater Creator might therefore be a late , indeed consciously crowning example
22 Once again we 've supplied the sails for a long list of medal winners .
23 Walking around the base of an active cone erupting these bombs is a bit like walking around a battlefield , with spent rounded cannonball bombs and shattered fragments of cannonballs lying around , and many big battered boulders exhibiting the bruises of a long volcanic siege .
24 If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change .
25 The work marks the end of a long battle at Darlington council over the best pedestrianisation plan for Darlington .
26 During 1992 the Board approved the introduction of a Long Term Incentive Plan which will change the manner in which Executive Directors and Senior Executives in the Group are remunerated .
27 That was nothing to my thoughts two minutes later when I joined the back of a long queue for a bus that already had people standing !
28 We have had a problem for a long period of time now on high conductivity .
29 ‘ When we understood what he meant to do , we endeavoured to dissuade him ; but he was resolute , saying he had not had a roll for a long time ; and taking out of his pockets whatever might be in them — keys , pencil , purse , or pen-knife — and laying himself parallel with the edge of the hill , he actually descended turning himself over and over till he came to the bottom . ’
30 She insisted on having wine with the meal , and as I had n't had a drink in a long time , it made me feel rather tipsy .
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