Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 2 | Never one to let a lack of cash stand in his way , Desmond persuaded the liquidator to agree to a long closing — i.e. to wait for his money until UPH had re-sold the site . |
| 3 | ’ Erskine May ’ states clearly that amendments may be made in Committee even if they are not within the Bill 's scope according to the long title . |
| 4 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 5 | These regressions indicate that mortality is related to swings in unemployment levels , over and above the improvement in mortality related to the long term trend for disposable incomes to increase . |
| 6 | Typical of these is the Welsh three-course rotation : oats , either autumn or spring sown ; followed by mangolds or swedes ; and then barley undersown to a long ley . |
| 7 | Foucault notes that , at the same time as the Annales school and others were constructing a history according to the long durée , in the history of science , philosophy , and literature , attention was turning in exactly the opposite direction , that is away from vast unities towards phenomena of rupture , discontinuity , displacement and transformation , towards different temporalities as well as architectonic unities . |
| 8 | He handed me an eyepiece attached to a long lead and there , through a series of prisms , were my lower intestines in glorious technicolour . |
| 9 | Viciously beaten and sexually abused , he sustained series injury leading to a long round of hospitals , major brain surgery and permanent disability . |