Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was built over a long period — both Peter Parler and Rejsek worked on it . |
| 32 | But she , you know , it was built for a long time before she got anything in it . |
| 33 | In 1805 Jesty gave his evidence in London at the institute 's invitation , when he was presented with a long testimonial and pair of gold-mounted lancets . |
| 34 | — CIU Honours Alan Frank , committeeman at Shotton Colliery WMC ( the Palms ) received the long service certificate and badge for 25 years service to the club and Ralph Kipling , vice-chairman at Cockfield Social Club for more than 17 years , was presented with the long service award by Durham CIU branch secretary Jack Amos . |
| 35 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 36 | It was thought for a long time that he was a Carthusian but there is no firm evidence for this . |
| 37 | Situated on the outskirts of Cullbridge , it was reached by a long drive edged by trees and shrubs . |
| 38 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |
| 39 | Here again he was alerted by a long tradition of Greek search for barbarian philosophers and seers . |
| 40 | In December 1640 Sir John Finch , now Lord Keeper , was impeached by the Long Parliament . |
| 41 | Discussions on the subject had begun late in November , when the ‘ old navigator ’ had first became part of their lives , but Dorothy 's remark at the end of their walking tour that Coleridge 's poem would appear ‘ with some pieces of William 's ’ was followed by a long silence . |
| 42 | After the revolution , B. A. Henman , the Registrar of the Royal Society of Chemistry , explained that Elena Ceauşescu 's ‘ application was supported by a long list of papers published in her name … |
| 43 | Within the hour Robert set out up-river to the ford by Pool , to carry the news across the river to the castellan at Castell Coch ; and before the morning was out , a rider was despatched on the long ride to Llewelyn 's court at Aber . |
| 44 | When he took his seat , the trumpets blew and the dinner was served by a long line of servants who carried in plates of steaming hot boar 's meat , brawn , beef , sturgeon , fish , bowls of cream containing sugared strawberries , and jug after jug of different wines . |
| 45 | During his years of experimentation , Alexander was led to a long consideration of the whole question of direction . |
| 46 | In Britain , their insignificance was overcome by the long agitation for affiliation to the Labour Party . |
| 47 | British case at least , the problem of national or ethnic difference was masked for a long period by development occurring in the peripheries at the same rate and in similar ways to development in industrial England . |
| 48 | It is a big bridal veil , but my picture was taken from a long way off . |
| 49 | Similarly , events arising out of long-standing difficulties would increase risk of depression : where , for instance , a husband left home after years of arguing and discord ; a child was arrested for burglary after a long history of behavioural problems at home and school ; or a substantial fine was incurred after a long period of extreme financial difficulty ( Brown et al. , 1987 ) . |
| 50 | This was encouraged by the long depression of prices . |
| 51 | Looking behind him , Robert saw that he was signalling to his friend from the Frog and Ferret , who was crouched in the long grass . |
| 52 | As Ken Plummer observes , whereas once it was the homosexual who was viewed as sick , now it might be the heterosexual who is charged with pathology : ‘ Whereas once the homosexual was identified by a long series of character traits , it is now possible to identify the traits of the homophobe : authoritarian , cognitively restricted , with gender anxieties , ( Plummer , ‘ Homosexual Categories ’ , 62 ) . |
| 53 | He was dressed in a long flannel shirt edged with lace , with flounces all down the middle , and five or six more on either side of the chest , all sewn with wool , in accordance with an Act of Parliament which forbids the use of linen or cotton for this purpose . |
| 54 | Torrijos seized power four years later , vowing to put an end to what was perceived as a long era of national humiliation . |
| 55 | This experiment was conducted over a longer time period ( ten days ) , starting with young plants . |
| 56 | Moore was elected to the Long Parliament in 1640 as MP for Liverpool , sitting alongside his uncle , Major-General Ralph Assheton . |
| 57 | Perhaps the strangest talisman — and one ( or should one say many … ? ) which made those initiates feel themselves intimately a part of the Fists — was kept in a long crypt below the Reclusiam , reached by a dropshaft which would incinerate anyone who did not sport a Black Carapace beneath their skin . |
| 58 | She was imprisoned in a long silk gown , her face pale and rather beautiful , with dark circles around deep , exhausted eyes . |
| 59 | Four years ago , you may remember , Lipton signed what was heralded as the longest sponsorship deal in world sport , for the next 31 years , but there were ‘ get out ’ clauses . |
| 60 | It was hailed as the longest ride , but Duke was convinced a still longer ride was possible . |