Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is much exercised about a long letter which arrived today , which she did not show me , but smiled over , and caught up and folded away . |
| 2 | In particular , we have shown examples where a tax on capital income may be shifted completely , and have demonstrated that in less extreme cases the effective redistribution may be very much reduced in the long run as a result of adjustments in the capital stock . |
| 3 | However , the press in the other European member states rightly concentrated on the long list of measures that were agreed and signed in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 4 | The students all studied through a long distance learning scheme with four tutors based in different parts of Britain . |
| 5 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 6 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 8 | I think that there is much to be said for statutes to be preceded by some statement of what Parliament is seeking to achieve in rather longer form than is normally provided by the long title , in the form of perhaps a return to the days of the preamble containing recitals — a form adopted in European Community legislation . |
| 9 | Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again . |
| 10 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 11 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 12 | These , he says , were not overcome without a long struggle . |
| 13 | The unlikely deal was probably finally swung by the long friendship between Ferguson and Wilkinson , who work closely together in the League Managers ' Association . |
| 14 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 15 | Of course , as has been shown , neither English nor humane education were simply " there " , but had been laboriously constructed over a long period . |
| 16 | It was still dominated by the long nose and wide mouth , also by eyes of an intense pale blue , which always seemed to focus sharply and penetratingly on whoever he was talking to . |
| 17 | Paolucci claims ( in Beccaria 1963 , p. ix ) that Dei Delitti e delle Pene has had ‘ more practical effect than any other treatise ever written in the long campaign against barbarism in criminal law and procedure ’ . |
| 18 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
| 19 | It is extremely light , low cut , very wide fitting — the widest I 've ever found for a long time — and together with an EVA insert into the sole unit , gave me very comfortable walking . |
| 20 | Beinn Damh , identified by a conspicuous horseshoe of scree high on its south side , is usually climbed by the long ridge coming up from Loch Torridon . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the army , despite the FMLN 's truce offer of Sept. 14 , was still engaged in a long push against guerrilla strongholds , and a major FMLN counter-offensive was not ruled out . |
| 22 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 23 | Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair . |
| 24 | Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair . |
| 25 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
| 26 | We 've both known for a long time how we feel about each other and all the reasons why nothing can ever come of it . |
| 27 | This served with 28 Squadron under 5 Wing and was later stored for a long time at 15 Air Depot at Snake Valley , adjacent to Swartkop before going to serve with the MEFS at Bloemspruit . |
| 28 | Goal attainment is also improved in the long run : leadership development among the clients is a goal by itself , and the strengthening of client independence will lead to the better preservation of any other outputs achieved . |
| 29 | Sometimes they were reduced to shirt-like softness ; often replaced by a long coat . |
| 30 | Those two there that look like twins half an inch apart : they may in fact be nauseatingly sundered by a long light-time of depth , united only by the angle of our point of view . |