Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not possible to raise the necessary capital , or to sell or grant a long lease to developers , where the only marketable title was the life estate of the head of the family . |
| 2 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 3 | In the hills that side a long valley on the way to Sæbol there is another emergency hut . |
| 4 | He had put off his armour , and rode in black and gold , with high gauntlets of purple leather , and a fine , extravagant capuchon in the same purple draped and twisted into a flaunting hat that drooped a long liripipe about his shoulders . |
| 5 | To meet the needs of piston-engine operators worldwide , a small number of specialist concerns thrive looking after the precious radial engine that go a long way towards making the DC-3 and DC-6 such economic miracle workers . |
| 6 | Reluctant as he was to part with evidence that went a long way to exonerating Colin , he knew surrendering it voluntarily was vastly preferable to having it seized . |
| 7 | Those who question Taylor 's future were left to swallow a performance that went a long way to answering the questions against the England manager . |
| 8 | But the headlining act — a quartet splicing the former Miles Davis guitarist John Scofield with the British saxophonist Andy Sheppard — struck fireworks that went a long way towards helping the audience breathe out after some dodgy moments during the presentations . |
| 9 | But they sweetened their reign of fear with occasional favours and a glaze of authority that went a long way in communities accustomed to neither . |
| 10 | The boat left a wake that rocked the long drifts of dead leaves on the water and slapped against the quay below them . |
| 11 | There is , however , one procedure that has been found to produce apparently the reverse effect — Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) have demonstrated that leaving a long interval between the last session of pre-exposure to the stimulus and the first test session will result in the restoration of an habituated UR while leaving latent inhibition unaffected . |
| 12 | Indeed , there is a strong argument that stretching the long arm of the law to the ‘ innocent ’ hacker could escalate rather than curb serious crime . |
| 13 | However , I think it is Standing Order No. 62(b) which states that a Committee can amend a Bill and change the long title for that purpose . |
| 14 | He was a radical and something of an agnostic , and read a long paper on the evils of war at the Union Society at a time when such views were certainly not popular . |
| 15 | Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory , and made a long speech about fascist imperialism . |
| 16 | I became especially interested in apes and made a long study of chimpanzees . |
| 17 | This lovely Victorian house is quite blissfully situated amongst a cluster of houses , in the village of Alnmouth , right on the banks of the river estuary , with only a small garden and a ‘ no through ’ road between it and the beach — it is brilliant for tumbling out of bed and enjoying a long walk on almost deserted sands . |
| 18 | In fact , this is probably , the most completely original church from the sixteenth-century in Milan and has a long history of being attended by the rich and powerful . |
| 19 | It covers the period from the Norman Conquest to the present day , and has a long section on suggestions for further reading . |
| 20 | A small generator can be used primarily to stop a battery discharging and it will only be able to recharge a battery if it is small and has a long time in which to do it . |
| 21 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |
| 22 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 23 | The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish . |
| 24 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 25 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 26 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 27 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 28 | The Corporal placed his Bren gun on the window-sill and fired a long burst at the sniper 's position . |
| 29 | With both hands he smoothed and adjusted the long sausage-roll of cloth that hugged the bottom of the door to keep out those icy draughts ever present in the rest of the house . |
| 30 | Between 1630 and 1646 Sir George Horsey had attempted to dam and drain the long tongue of water which still lies between Chesil Beach and the Dorset mainland . |