Example sentences of "[art] long and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 2 | The former has the longest and most consistent record of prosperity . |
| 3 | Taken as a single body of water , between its source and where its waters reach the sea at Marienburg as the Reik , this is the longest and most substantial river system in the Old World . |
| 4 | The IDA 's success in attracting Raybestos Manhattan led to perhaps the longest and most bitter struggle against a multinational in Ireland . |
| 5 | The one Johnson 's enthusiasm faded and he soon drifted away from the sport ; the other had his first competitive contest in the following January and so began one of the longest and least celebrated ring careers in British boxing . |
| 6 | Shifting agriculture is not in itself environmentally harmful , as is evidenced by the long and generally successful history that this type of agriculture has enjoyed in tropical regions . |
| 7 | In 1106 Kálmán acceded to the Hungarian throne , and so began the long and often troubled relationship between Croatia and Hungary which lasted for over eight centuries . |
| 8 | But the long and very flat strip of vines immediately to your left , which extend back to the A4 motorway , are inferior to Verzenay 's poorest vines ; these are the vineyards of Sillery . |
| 9 | Frequently dependent on assumptions of common cause with film theory and criticism , television genre theory is uncomplicated by the longer and more complex history of aesthetics and poetics . |
| 10 | At Friends of the Earth , Jonathan Porritt similarly fought a long and largely successful battle to demonstrate that efficiency and negotiation with the opposition do n't have to mean sell-out . |
| 11 | Any opening of oneself psychically , particularly at ancient sites which have a long and largely unknown history , can be hazardous , and it is best undertaken with caution and proper attunement . |
| 12 | Which opened wider , throwing a long and somehow bizarre shape of light across the alley , everything exaggerated and distorted including the elongated and backlit shadow moving out within its frame … |
| 13 | A long and carefully detailed letter of complaint was received by the committee early in 1939 , and it is quoted at length here for its revelation of some of the prevailing attitudes towards the Public Assistance Institution ( of which St. Peter 's Hospital was now an integral part ) . |
| 14 | There are coach excursions to the great classical site at Epheseus ( a long and rather expensive day by Turkish standards ) , and visits to carpet making villages where you 'll have a fascinating glimpse of Turkish country life . |
| 15 | There has been a long and rather pointless debate on this question . |
| 16 | The rationalisation remits have been a notable success enabling Johnson Matthey to maintain growth in profits during a long and deep worldwide recession . |
| 17 | Defined as ‘ the encouragement given to an individual by a patron who favours , protects , and gives influential support , ’ it has a long and generally inglorious history in the development of careers in medicine . |
| 18 | Miracu-lously , Matt Busby survived after a long and seemingly impossible fight for life . |
| 19 | Her appetite had apparently disappeared through the door with Adam , but she forced herself to eat breakfast , knowing she had a long and probably arduous day to get through . |
| 20 | Schemes for arranging Perpetual Peace had a long and depressingly futile history . |
| 21 | The headmistress made a long and patently truthful speech about how they would miss Stephanie , and a brief speech about Frederica 's outstanding good fortune . |
| 22 | Himalayan skiing has had a long and painfully slow gestation period beginning with the activities of various Indian Army Officers in the early part of the century . |
| 23 | A long and mutually profitable sequence of cooperation seems set to run its course , with a comfortable 100 per cent benchmark score for both players . |
| 24 | Now he faced the biggest obstacle he would ever have to clear , for the only chance of cure lay in a long and horrifically painful course of chemotherapy . |
| 25 | He and Sergeant Joe , having met in Petticoat Lane and having talked , repaired to a pub and had a long and very friendly conversation . |
| 26 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 27 | This provides a long and very enjoyable drink that can accompany a meal , or just be drunk for pleasure socially . |
| 28 | The delay was partly due to a long and very public debate between PADA and ARROW , a group of residents from Woodchurch , the estate where heroin use was first discovered , who were unhappy about such a centre being opened near their homes , fearing it would attract various sorts of trouble . |
| 29 | There survives a long and highly circumstantial account of his conversation with the Queen when he was newly a professor at Sheffield , and one is seldom in doubt that this is one who has moved among the great , and without strain . |
| 30 | This scheme , for which N. F. Ramsey was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1989 , enables the maximum resolution to be extracted without the need for a long and highly uniform interaction region . |