Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock .
2 Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock .
3 An advantage of this slender branch byway , which runs at a higher level than the main road , is the splendid panorama it affords of the encircling hills : across the valley the distant double-topped Frostrow merges in the long whaleback skyline of Rise Hill ; at the head is Great Knoutberry Hill carrying the railway ; rising to the left are the lower slopes of Whernside , succeeded by Great Coum beyond the gap of Deepdale , and finally Middleton Fell closes the horizon .
4 There is no corresponding requirement for bistability , which occurs for , and thus actually benefits from a long time constant , since the gain is : hence materials such as semiconductors and liquid crystals with small are ideal for bistability but useless for Ikeda instability .
5 I 'm also sorry to disappoint all those writers on anorexia nervosa who insist that the disease stems from a long standing aversion to sexuality and childbirth .
6 However , this source suffers from the long time gap between censuses , and so more detailed and more frequent information on changing land use within the forest still has to rely on ad hoc surveys .
7 Deceleration commences with a long delay number ( 25 ) , which allows time for the rotor to swing past the equilibrium position into a position where the motor is producing the negative torque required for deceleration .
8 Deceleration commences with a long excitation period ( T1' ) to allow the rotor to move ahead of the equilibrium position and produce negative torque .
9 Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section .
10 For me , overriding all practical considerations , there is the spiritual uplift which comes after a long sea passage when , at dawn or evening , I enter some tangle-fringed sea loch with the majesty of the hills reflecting from its still waters .
11 Drife should not be surprised that many women respond to a strange man with a conditioned response that arises from a long learning experience in a male dominated society .
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