Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] a long [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Further colour and splendour is brought to the occasion by the gold trimmed gowns and hats of the senior University officers : the Pro-Chancellors , the Vice-Chancellor and the Chancellor , whose gown has a long heavy train carried by his page .
2 Because it has little executive power itself , the union faces a long hard road to have the motion adopted .
3 The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history .
4 Ideal dairy land has a long growing season , no summer drought period , a stable soil structure with good drainage to avoid excessive poaching , and an unfailing water supply .
5 Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves .
6 N. battus is characterised by having only one set of parallel rays in each bursal lobe while the female worm has a long pointed tail and the large egg is brownish with parallel sides .
7 Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems .
8 Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems .
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