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 . |