Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [art] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The growth hormone locus has also been mapped on the long arm of chromosome 17 , at 17q 22–24 , close to the BRCA1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families .
2 We 've moved on a long way from the original version . ’
3 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 .
4 The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme .
5 This chapter concentrates on these three national clearinghouses already established , and is based on a longer paper on the subject .
6 However , the press in the other European member states rightly concentrated on the long list of measures that were agreed and signed in the Maastricht treaty .
7 This patient was shown as homozygous with the probe Lambda MS32 , assigned on the long arm of chromosome 1 ( 1q43–43 ) , for his normal and primary tumour DNA .
8 John Maddox , the editor of Nature , wrote in 1982 : ‘ The OED is uniquely a data base … , which will suggest to many that it should by now be stored on a long reel of magnetic tape , floppy disks , or some other means of data storage .
9 The fact that the BRCA1 gene for breast cancer is flanked on the long arm of chromosome 17 by the THRA1 gene for the thyroid hormone receptor may be important in this respect .
10 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 .
11 Ahead of them was a little church not unlike the many they had passed on the long route-march from Etaples to the front .
12 In cases where a tumour suppressor gene is inactivated , repetitive cellular repair may lead to uncontrolled cell division and malignant transformation ; a putative tumour suppressor gene has been described on the long arm of chromosome 17 .
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