Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The best one he 's made in a long time , I 'd say . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Also in the crypt is the Duomo treasury , a pay-to-enter collection that is closed for a long period at lunch . |
| 12 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 13 | What is needed in the long term is a larger worship area which can be adapted for other uses . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme . |
| 17 | This chapter concentrates on these three national clearinghouses already established , and is based on a longer paper on the subject . |
| 18 | Official figures released today prove that Britain is locked into the longest recession since the Second World War . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Each parcel of butter is tasted with a long scoop and then re-weighed before a buyer will accept it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But each individual foster-parent is descended from a long line of ancestors many of whom never encountered a cuckoo in their lives . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ The offer price of 240p is spread over the longest instalment period ever on any privatisation . |
| 29 | ( c ) Ensure that no voucher is retained for a longer period than 14 days from receipt . |
| 30 | for example , the maintenance of blood pressure when changing from a lying to a standing position is achieved less rapidly as we age ; as a result the blood supply to the brain is decreased for a longer time and there is a greater tendency to feel dizzy . |