Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Politis editor , Mr Jean-Paul Besset , said his magazine had carried out a long investigation into dangerous waste dumping , including the discovery in 1983 of barrels of earth impregnated with dioxin from Seveso that were illegally shipped to northern France by an independent contractor . |
| 2 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 3 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 4 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
| 5 | He had drawn up a long list of people she ought to talk to during the day : fashion houses , designers , a couple of artists ' studios , a gallery specializing in contemporary prints . |
| 6 | This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory . |
| 7 | But a doctor , one of the doctors in the same hospital saying , that the , during the First World War , when they were so desperate , you know , so many casualties , they had to cut short treatment , and they had to bandage men up and leave them bandaged up a long length of , they found it was often better to leave a wound bandaged up in it 's own |
| 8 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 9 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |