Example sentences of "[vb pp] by a long [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family likeness can be seen among all the boys , every face dominated by a long curved nose . |
| 2 | In the light from the lamp the child blinked his weary eyes , his question muffled by a long noisy yawn . |
| 3 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 4 | That the choleretic response to feeding is abolished by vagotomy suggests that this secretory event may possibly be mediated by a long vago-vagal reflex ( similar to the increased production of gastric acid secondary to gastric distension ) , or that it may be a true cephalic phase event . |
| 5 | At Christchurch the original station was no more than a collection of sheds , but in 1877 it was replaced by a long Gothic structure — a rare example in the southern hemisphere — which looked like a succession of chapels at right angles to the platforms with a connecting range running between them . |
| 6 | There was a train waiting at the Gare Maritime of Ostend with a through carriage to Berlin , reached by a long overnight journey across the flat plains of northern Europe . |
| 7 | Most historical accounts have been influenced by a long sociological tradition going back to Frederic le Play 's L'Organisation de la famille selon le vrai modèle signalé par l'histoire de toutes les races et de tous les temps ( 1871 ) , which saw a broad change in the family from the extended form in the middle ages to nuclear form in modernity . |
| 8 | To work all year and then watch your entire flock of sheep be killed by a long savage winter , as happened in Malham in 1940 when drifts ten and twenty feet deep covered the moor of Spiggot Hill and Tarn Moss , must be cruelty itself . |
| 9 | Last week was another frantic cocktail of fittings , production meetings , voice-overs and charities , topped by a long photographic session and interviews for T V Times . |