Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Happily the other Albert the one with two rather than four legs was in finer fettle , despite a morning spent wrestling with the complexities of a long speech . |
| 4 | Copies of the rules of the Long Term Incentive Plans for each of the Waterford Crystal and the Wedgwood Group businesses will be available for inspection on the day of the Annual General Meeting at Hotel Conrad for 15 minutes prior to and until the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting . |
| 5 | And what heaven could the preacher offer that would compare with the joys of the long summer evenings , messing about in boats with other laughing boys and girls ? |
| 6 | It eliminated the need to grow acres of turnips or grain to feed the animals during the long winter months . |
| 7 | Fand looked her in the eyes for a long moment ; and it was difficult for Ruth to face the utter loneliness of that gaze . |
| 8 | In the eyes of the Long March veterans , young people were easily duped by the enemies of socialism and needed to be watched carefully . |
| 9 | It is exquisite work of an artist content with the archaic tradition , and the same designer is clearly at work on the fragments of the long south frieze ( chariots , horsemen , an altar ; fig. 61 ) . |
| 10 | I do not intend to offend ; I merely state my innermost feelings in terms of women , past and present , based on the experiences of a long life . |
| 11 | It might plausibly be assumed that one of the effects of a long retention interval is to restore the lost arousing properties of a familiar context . |
| 12 | Their results did , however , confirm another effect evident in the original Kraemer and Roberts study — that the effects of a long retention interval can be very apparent when pre-exposure is given to a stimulus different from that used for conditioning and the test . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , he condemned that same deluded world for its previous exclusion of Spain from the European Recovery Programme , thereby exacerbating the effects of a long period of exceptionally low rainfall . |
| 14 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
| 15 | At the very moment when Hurd was preparing to unveil the fruits of a long period of gestation in the form of a White Paper on criminal justice , Lawson resigned as Chancellor . |
| 16 | and , cos I said to the dealers for a long time you know do n't put them under stairs , do n't put them in store rooms , they get locked , locked up with vacuum cleaners and you ca n't get to the gear when you go to them , do n't put them high up on the wall we ca n't reach them and they just laugh , but er , I think the last laugh 's on us now cos er if I see one high up on the wall , I say well that , I say we 're not accepting that , you have to move it |
| 17 | AFTER THE FIVE months on gruelling location and the inconveniences of the long make-up sessions , Dustin took a rest with his family in New York . |
| 18 | Diesel is available on the pontoons from a long pipe which extends down from a makeshift pump at the pontoon head . |
| 19 | At the end of the test I have to say that I would have been reasonably happy to work with any of the monitors on a long term basis . |
| 20 | The people began to recover from the horrors of the long war with Chaos and for a while the population grew . |
| 21 | ‘ You know , I have n't had a look at the things for a long time , ’ Müller remarked . |
| 22 | But these are hard times for Moroccans , what with a $22 billion foreign debt , a depressed market for the country 's main export , phosphates , and the after-effects of a long drought . |
| 23 | What really moved the men was the ignition of the class war , the excitement of climbing out of the trenches for the long march against the class enemy . |
| 24 | Once again we 've supplied the sails for a long list of medal winners . |
| 25 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 26 | Jumping down , he ran up the stairs into the Long Room , where all the workforce were seated over the midday meal . |
| 27 | The electronic and acoustic weapons systems of bats , which we discussed in Chapter 2 , have all the finely tuned sophistication that we expect from the end-products of a long arms race . |
| 28 | They behaved like brave soldiers because they had inherited the genes of a long line of ancestral queens whose lives , and whose genes , had been saved by soldiers as brave as themselves . |
| 29 | Two more , with Adam , had been across the river in the villages beneath the Long Mountain , in Leighton and Forden overlooking the river , and even into the hamlets that lay inland , in the high valley of the brook beyond . |
| 30 | The frustrations of the long struggle in Korea , combined with McCarthy 's campaign , suggested that America 's problems resulted from a " softness on communism " that pervaded the Truman administration . |