Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stout refusal , and then the shambling figure going up the long path beside the river , up to the house . |
| 2 | On the second day they gave her a rubber ball attached on a long elastic thread to a wooden bat . |
| 3 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 4 | A warm wind shone through the long stubble which shimmered like silk in the heat ; the sun glared off the metal cabs of lorries and buses , the tar melted into mirages of water and cleared again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At Montego Bay there was an overall shed backed by a long building with an elaborate tower . |
| 7 | A historical theory must validate itself against a future whose demand , ultimately , is the redemption of the democratic claim buried within the long struggles for and by ‘ the people ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then they are playing a semi-blind second shot to a long narrow green , where deft perfection is crucial . |
| 10 | This consists of a heavy studded ball suspended on a long chain hanging from a pole . |
| 11 | Her startled eyes absorbed the thick , short , golden-streaked hair swept back from a broad forehead , ears long and narrow as a satyr 's which grew close to a beautifully formed skull , a mouth of unutterable sweetness countered by a long jaw carved out of golden teak faintly blurred by a light stubble , and a chin that jutted in a formidable challenge . |
| 12 | She sped down the little path leading between the long vegetable beds of the kitchen-garden . |
| 13 | The kilometre long cutting emerges onto a longer embankment with extensive views over the Tame valley and back towards West Bromwich . |
| 14 | Depending on where your drive ends up you will face a tricky second shot to a long , narrow green . |
| 15 | As a cautious start , British Telecom is a good choice to buy for the long term . |
| 16 | Painted red , of course , with sinuous front wings that curve above the wheelarches , a recessed bonnet , a short roof tapering into a long , descending C-pillar and a vast engine cover terminating with a flat rear . |
| 17 | The headless trunk stood for a long second , the blood fountaining in a gush of scarlet from the raw stump of its neck , before collapsing bonelessly to the mat . |
| 18 | Doubt was cast on Cameron 's results partly by the lack of control data he offered , and , later , after his death , his reputation for scientific integrity was irretrievably damaged by the revelation that much of his experimental work had for a long time been secretly supported by the CIA , including some rather insidious studies of the effects of covertly administered LSD on the behaviour of unsuspecting people . |
| 19 | Walkers will find a great deal of variety , from short forest walks to the long Southern Upland Way . |
| 20 | It is clear that such a strategy would produce an incorrect parsing when a short word followed by a long word is homophonous with a long word followed by a short word . |
| 21 | The replicative cycle of ASFV , consisting first of a nuclear stage followed by a longer cytoplasmic phase of DNA replication ( 5 ) , is more complex than that of poxviruses , secluded to the cell cytoplasm ( reviewed in ( 6 ) ) . |
| 22 | It is not a very fruitful exercise to indulge in a long debate as to which of these two functions is the more important . |
| 23 | Roy 's age is the one vital fact missing from the long list in the Rovers press release . |
| 24 | After the Second World War the economic prosperity brought by the long postwar boom , and the apparent popularity of the Attlee government 's welfare reforms , allowed the paternalist orientations of Eden , Butler , and Macmillan to flourish , attenuated by the ‘ stops ’ forced by Britain 's ongoing balance-of-payments problem . |
| 25 | This he had learnt from Ann herself , who had forecast the sex of both babies by means of a golden ring suspended by the longest whisker of a white cat . |
| 26 | He was led to his seat by a young woman dressed in a long green velvet skirt and a high-necked , white lace blouse with leg-of-mutton sleeves . |
| 27 | This species has a finely toothed margin ; a large , wide leaf born on a long stem . |
| 28 | For the course seeks not only to prepare graduates for immediate employment in a range of positions within publishing but also to provide them with the intellectual equipment to become in the longer term the managers , the decision-makers and strategy-formulators . |
| 29 | Deeper into the reed bed it went , its cryptic plumage merging with the long , thin , creamy-buff , feathery-topped reedstalks — and disappeared from view . |
| 30 | Special education has for a long time been fertile ground for curricula based on linear models of learning , guided and assessed through hierarchies of objectives . |