Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dock company in due course took a long lease of the area in question from the Secretary of State for Defence , although the ports authority insisted that the necessary planning consent be obtained before the lease was signed . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the retired admiral spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 3 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |
| 4 | But then , all this business happened a long time ago . |
| 5 | He called in his full executive to meet us and I 'm sure at the end of the day that this meeting went a long way to the tour going ahead instead of being cancelled ’ . |
| 6 | The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes . |
| 7 | Her later research in this area involved a long study of the complex genetic interactions in Matthiola incana , on which she published twenty-two papers . |
| 8 | The Daily Telegraph carried a long story without mentioning my name , since Michael Berry was well disposed to me and had no wish to cause me embarrassment . |
| 9 | The Daily Telegraph published a long article from me on the subject on its editorial page . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 11 | The same research also shows , however , that the ‘ class ’ basis of support for the parties is now weakening significantly , and that even at its peak this phenomenon fell a long way short of the Marxist conception of political ‘ class consciousness ’ . |
| 12 | As Argentina deployed gunboats , the Foreign Office entered a long silence over South Georgia . |
| 13 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 14 | The tradition of writing ‘ effusions ’ in blank verse had a long history in the eighteenth century , culminating in The Task by William Cowper . |
| 15 | Researchers investigating the causes of psychological depression spent a long time carefully documenting how severe , traumatizing events that happen to people , such as bereavement or job loss , can induce it . |
| 16 | That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law . |
| 17 | He looked at the stiff unbending features of the recruiter for a moment : the dark hollows around his eyes and his dry , parchment-like skin betrayed a long addiction to opium , and Duclos guessed that hid irritability stemmed for this . |
| 18 | The long room contained a long silence . |
| 19 | Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 and wrote The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405 ; the battle for women 's right to equal education took a long time to win . |
| 20 | When Zeppelin told PHIL KING their next game was on ice , the rotund reviewer expected a long delay ! |
| 21 | One group spent a long time comparing the different notes or tones produced when tubes of different width and length were blown or spoken down . |
| 22 | She swallowed hard and began , ‘ Well , the Big Bang happened a long time ago . |
| 23 | Her sleepless , restless night seemed a long way off . |
| 24 | The secret operation followed a long period gathering information on criminals in the town . |
| 25 | His own voice sounded a long way away , and muffled . |
| 26 | However , as a result of a case in which a determined executive fought a long battle through the courts , the position now appears to be more complicated than was once thought . |
| 27 | The ministerial position went a long way towards meeting the US criteria , but the British side had worries as well . |
| 28 | The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later . |
| 29 | The political police in the Soviet Union had a long history stretching back to tsarist times . |
| 30 | Their spectacular entrance over , the two girls stripped naked , and the athletic young man produced a long whip . |