Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 1100 hours all is set and the parade ground is filled by the long ranks of the 180 members of Training Company and the Pegasus Band all awaiting the arrival of the Inspecting Officer , Brigadier Mike Scott DSO CBE , who commanded the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards in the Falklands War . |
| 2 | The performance of the housewife role in adulthood is prefaced by a long period of apprenticeship . |
| 3 | Ethnographic research has special qualities suited to dealing with controversial topics in sensitive locations , for it entails a gradual and progressive contact with respondents , which is sustained over a long period , allowing a rapport to be established slowly with respondents over time , and for researchers to participate in the full range of experiences involved in the topic . |
| 4 | Ipswich 's other newcomer , German Andre Pollehn , will also be missing as he is committed to a long track meeting in his own country that day . |
| 5 | The house is approached by a long drive through pastoral fields . |
| 6 | " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says . |
| 7 | The official definition of long-term unemployment is more than twelve months without work , although employment training , which is designed for the long term unemployed , requires entrants to have been on the register for more than six months . |
| 8 | The column itself is decorated by a long relief frieze wound round from top to bottom and representing episodes from the Emperor 's Dacian campaigns . |
| 9 | At the time of writing , the THORP plant is in fact nearing completion , and the Sellafield management is boasting of the long list of multimillion pound contracts it has already won to reprocess nuclear fuel from around the world . |
| 10 | The best one he 's made in a long time , I 'd say . |
| 11 | Consider for example , that ( Fig. 7.6 ) will be parsed as Europe lie rather than your reply , since is matched to the long word Europe and is matched to lie . |
| 12 | As a new word is read from the ASCII file , the head list is searched for the longest string available from the start of the word . |
| 13 | Also in the crypt is the Duomo treasury , a pay-to-enter collection that is closed for a long period at lunch . |
| 14 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 15 | What is needed in the long term is a larger worship area which can be adapted for other uses . |
| 16 | Most commentators on mental health care agree that some people with severe mental illnesses ( mostly those with chronic schizophrenia ) need the safe , full time specialist care that is offered in the long stay wards of the old asylums . |
| 17 | ( a ) Education. : A clear idea of exactly what coronary artery disease means is most important for the coronary patient if he is to comply in the long term with the advice that he is given , and understand what has happened to him . |
| 18 | The cause of Mr Hemingway 's ‘ uncharacteristic errors ’ — failing to see that the old wire was detached at the fuse end and insulated at the relay end — is attributed to the long hours he worked . |
| 19 | using it at the same rate but it 's going for a longer time . |
| 20 | The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme . |
| 21 | This chapter concentrates on these three national clearinghouses already established , and is based on a longer paper on the subject . |
| 22 | Official figures released today prove that Britain is locked into the longest recession since the Second World War . |
| 23 | One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) . |
| 24 | Although divorce is affecting an increasing number of people , little is known about the longer term social and economic effects of the financial arrangements made at the time of divorce . |
| 25 | Mr Leslie 's train was to leave platform 3 on the far left-hand side of the station which is linked by a long subway . |
| 26 | Sottomarina is linked by a long bridge , across the lagoon , to the town of Chioggia , ‘ Little Venice ’ , made up of narrow-straight canals and streets , hump-back bridges and colourful houses — it is one of the great wonders of Italy . |
| 27 | Each parcel of butter is tasted with a long scoop and then re-weighed before a buyer will accept it . |
| 28 | Each individual cuckoo nestling is descended from a long line of ancestral cuckoo nestlings , every single one of whom must have succeeded in manipulating its foster-parent . |
| 29 | But each individual foster-parent is descended from a long line of ancestors many of whom never encountered a cuckoo in their lives . |
| 30 | Experiments using the flavour-aversion techniques , comparing intervals of 1 day versus 24 days ( McIntosh and Tarpy 1977 ) , and of 1 day versus 21 days ( Kraemer and Roberts 1984 ) , have found that latent inhibition is diminished at the longer interval . |