Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door from the terrace led directly into a long , somewhat overfurnished salon , cool and dim after the heat and brightness outside , its deep window-sills shaded by closed shutters and crowded with knick-knacks . |
| 2 | People would not welcome a move from their home and if closure went ahead over a long period of time staff would inevitably leave . |
| 3 | And during the next thirty years composers associated with the Académie set his poems , including a translation of the Psalms , to music in which , as Philip Sidney put it , ‘ every semibreif or mynom had its syllables matched accordingly with a long foote and a short foote ’ , not monodic but in harmony with each syllable sung simultaneously in all parts . |
| 4 | Nor can any athlete look forward to a long and healthy life if they use drugs to aid their performance . |
| 5 | Katherine sat silently for a long moment , her eyes growing perceptibly wider , the colour draining from her cheeks . |
| 6 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 7 | He was conscious of a growing feeling of peace and well-being as he drew nearer — like a weary traveller returning home after a long and tiring journey . |
| 8 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 9 | The final allied victory against Japan came only after a long and costly struggle . |
| 10 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 11 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 12 | Even for severely ill patients a good long term outlook can be expected for most of those undergoing transplantation ; the overall survival of 70% at a mean of 69 months for those discharged from hospital after such an operation compares favourably with the long term results of cardiac transplantation worldwide . |
| 13 | King Edward VII and his Consort , Alexandra , were able to influence international events , particularly in Europe , which continued to be the predominant continent and Britain looked forward to a long period of peaceful influence . |
| 14 | It had been the same with Road Works Ahead on the Long Drive . |
| 15 | Notts went ahead when Mike Simpson volleyed home after a long throw-in . |
| 16 | The magazine in her hand plumed upwards in a long flame , belching smoke . |
| 17 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 18 | Ahead a ragged coastline stretched away to a long , low headland which jutted out into the sea , its level surface broken by the jagged stumps of two mine stacks . |
| 19 | " I 'm sorry , " Patrick said eventually into the long silence which followed . |
| 20 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 21 | Ingram looked doubtfully at the long table , rocking up and down like a lugger in a gale . |
| 22 | Hayman thought deeply for a long while before making up his mind . |
| 23 | Bodie and Ray Doyle sat casually behind the long table that faced the Coroner 's desk itself . |
| 24 | The cows moved slowly through the long green grass . |
| 25 | We show that position-independent , copy number-dependent expression of the Ea d gene occurs only with the Long construct ( 8/8 transgenic mouse lines , over a range of copy numbers , 1-30 copies ) ; in contrast , the Short constructs are subject to position-dependent effects . |
| 26 | He walked swiftly to the reception counter midway down a long hall leading to Dover Street . |
| 27 | ‘ It was so untimely , ’ the Commander said passionately after a long silence , ‘ so very untimely . ’ |
| 28 | Supertop ran well for a long way in the season 's opener at Doncaster . |
| 29 | When Sombro comes home after a long excursion , he 's usually very thin , in poor shape and a bit battered and bruised . |
| 30 | Although Q ' ; is the socially efficient output , society can not force the monopolist to produce here in the long run . |