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

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1 What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut .
2 As Argentina deployed gunboats , the Foreign Office entered a long silence over South Georgia .
3 Any investigation which covers a long span of time is bound to encounter certain special problems .
4 And so , although she had hated having to do it , Laura had forced herself to write a long letter to Ross , saying how very much she loved and missed him — and could n't they still try to salvage something from the wreck of their marriage ?
5 As soon as the train started , I drew a long breath of relief .
6 The net effect of these transactions is to establish a long position of $180 000 in a synthetic index future which comprises the thousand smaller shares quoted on the NYSE which are not in the S&P500 index .
7 He uses a special tool called a cheese iron to pull a long plug of cheese out of one truckle from each day 's production .
8 Who wants a long Grace Before Meals ?
9 AIR travel has come a long way at Aldergrove since the first wide-eyed civilian passengers flew there 30 years ago .
10 Jamie Whitham : has come a long way since Kirkistown back in 1988 .
11 DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington .
12 You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that .
13 Whitham has come a long way from April 16 , 1988 when he won the Enkalon 1,000cc race and became one of the few English riders to score at Kirkistown at that time .
14 The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish .
15 The Queen heads a long list of lenders of the more than 700 objects in the exhibition .
16 Nicetius of Trier threatened to excommunicate Theudebert I for adultery , and he frequently excommunicated Chlothar I. He heads a long line of saints who dared to challenge the Merovingians on their sexual profligacy .
17 This involved a long hike over Esk Hause to Gable , and to avoid the intense mid-day heat we agreed to leave the valley at dawn .
18 One Frenchman had taken his carbine from his holster and now tried a long shot at Sharpe , but the bullet fluttered harmlessly overhead .
19 Objectivity is itself an ideal which has a long history of identification with the masculine .
20 Egypt is another example of a country which , like Pakistan and China , has a long history of irrigation , in this case in the Nile Valley ( section 3.4.2 ) beginning some 5 kyr BP .
21 Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation .
22 ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods .
23 One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender .
24 Social theory of the family has a long history of debate on structural explanations , that is on whether family types adapt as appropriate to the social and economic world .
25 The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings .
26 It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder .
27 But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans .
28 Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window .
29 The practice of coppicing has a long history in Britain .
30 The use of an outsider to observe what happens in a school has a long history in Britain through the process of formal school inspection .
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