Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [prep] [art] 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 | It was a little after ten o'clock by the time the three men gathered in the council chamber over the post office and unrolled the plans on the long oak table . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mr Morris added : ‘ We have pressed the Government for a long time to have a look at the hill farming situation . |
| 7 | I will say that because as , we have n't heard the end by a long way for , of this one . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He ‘ valued himself upon the sieges and services he had been in ’ ; and as a military expert he drew the attention of the Long Parliament ( summoned on 3 November 1640 ) to the danger from the Irish army under the command of Thomas Wentworth , first Earl of Strafford [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | He felt clear headed enough to tackle the remainder of the long journey north . |
| 16 | It eliminated the need to grow acres of turnips or grain to feed the animals during the long winter months . |
| 17 | Few experts can beat the market in the long run , so keeping up with it is a reasonable option . |
| 18 | The dams etc may also have been designed to attract industry and so benefit the country in the long term . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Fertility recovered a little from its 1977 low ( figure 4.4 ) but by 1980 this recovery was spent , at a level still below that needed to replace the population in the long run . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Once again we 've supplied the sails for a long list of medal winners . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He was trembling now , he hated the thought of the long hours of the day dividing him from his hope . |
| 28 | But the Baptism of Jesus did not merely see the end of the long silence , and God 's declaration that in Jesus the role of the Servant and the Son had converged : the age-long drought of the Holy Spirit was ended too . |
| 29 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 30 | The work marks the end of a long battle at Darlington council over the best pedestrianisation plan for Darlington . |