Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] the 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What is needed in the long term is a larger worship area which can be adapted for other uses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Official figures released today prove that Britain is locked into the longest recession since the Second World War . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The fact that the BRCA1 gene for breast cancer is flanked on the long arm of chromosome 17 by the THRA1 gene for the thyroid hormone receptor may be important in this respect . |
| 12 | The ability of an elastomer to regain its former size , when extensions of up to 400 per cent have been experienced , is associated with the long chain character of the material . |
| 13 | ‘ The offer price of 240p is spread over the longest instalment period ever on any privatisation . |
| 14 | This pattern , which echoes the scheme invented by Sylvester for the Tate Gallery more than twenty years ago and encourages a focus upon single works , is continued in the long gallery of the ground floor where paintings from 1929 to 1939 are placed on both sides of a partition wall . |
| 15 | At the University of Edinburgh , where the Department of English Literature is the oldest-established in Great Britain , continuity is maintained with the long tradition of literary study here . |
| 16 | It therefore urges the Secretary of State to reject this appeal , and in so doing unequivocally confirm the value which is attached to the long term protection of landscape quality in Wales ' National Parks . |