Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
| 2 | Perhaps the mother-daughter relationship is also significant in respect of whether the Lady enters your life easily , or only after a long struggle . |
| 3 | Or or certainly in the long term . |
| 4 | He did n't think of her as often now , except perhaps on a long weekend when he was off-duty ; the rest of the time he had things to occupy his mind . |
| 5 | Was this what love led to , McAllister thought more than once during the long afternoon : this agony , this terrible suffering ? |
| 6 | Eventually English Heritage joined with the National Heritage Memorial fund offering to buy the house and asking for no funding from the government ( although possibly in the long term , additional monies would have had to have been found for the running of the house ) . |
| 7 | Then several fixing screws would be driven through ready-prepared countersunk holes in the tyre to ensure that never throughout a long life would it be able to slip . |
| 8 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 9 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 10 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |
| 11 | Well , you may win , but your counterparts will think they 've lost and so in the long run will you . |
| 12 | In many cases these activities have promoted gender-neutral policies and perhaps in the long term will have a major impact on some aspects of gender bias in schools . |
| 13 | When the slings and arrows of outrageous everyday life buffet our heads , we escape to Assynt , even if only for a long weekend , and always return refreshed , perspective regained . |
| 14 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 15 | Up three floors in the elevator , and away down the long corridor that was chaos because the electricians were rewiring the floor , and on to the security gate into Bureau territory . |
| 16 | Shockingly juxtaposed with an apparently childish survival of a primitive chant , the Lord 's Prayer grows increasingly fragmented , corruptly incorporating the complaint , ‘ Life is very long ’ , while being broken up and having its utterance prevented by ‘ the Shadow ’ in the long passages which are partly like a new ritual , usurping the old , and partly like a long gloss which dominates the original text of the prayer . |
| 17 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 18 | And then after a long pause , he sighed , ‘ But it will never be quite the same . ’ |
| 19 | She found herself swept off the bed and across to the long sash window , then stood on her feet with Roman 's warmth supporting her from behind , his arms wrapped around her . |
| 20 | It is an immediate , positive image which embodies the character of this production , and indeed of the long tradition at Peter Cheeseman 's Vics Old and New . |
| 21 | Although a bit of a nuisance , it is usually cheaper and safer in the long run to run both systems together until you are 101 per cent sure that your new computer is ready and able to handle what you want it to . |
| 22 | And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure . |
| 23 | They were dissenters from and critics of the worldly values of power , pleasure , and opulence , and therefore in the long term the creators of the modern secularizing notion that such pursuits are irrelevant to religion and vice versa . |
| 24 | Her looks and her vibrant personality had always won the day for her — but perhaps in the long run that had n't been a good thing , because now those weapons had failed her she was floundering , rudderless . |
| 25 | The Pilkington float process , metal skis , xerography , are success stories , but only after a long time period , much effort and many technical difficulties . |
| 26 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 27 | He shrugged his shoulders , ‘ At times I like to speak English , but not for a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ Before , but not for a long time now , ’ Maggie admitted reluctantly and Rose did not want to learn any more . |
| 29 | It is a combination that I have used in the past but not for a long time , although blue and white stripes in fabrics are a perennial favourite of mine . |
| 30 | Been to it before but not for a long time . |