Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a long [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 2 | Mass is celebrated here at midday , the church having been reconsecrated after a long deconsecration period . |
| 3 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 4 | It involves an arduous ten kilometre run preceded by a long assault course , against the clock , finishing with a shoot on the firing range . |
| 5 | The column itself is decorated by a long relief frieze wound round from top to bottom and representing episodes from the Emperor 's Dacian campaigns . |
| 6 | His preliminary architectural sketches hung in a long glass frame on the passage wall inside the cottage . |
| 7 | I also learnt the difference between a Helio Courier and a Pilatus Porter , two types of STOL aircraft often used in Ecuador ; the former small and cheap to charter , the latter costing £150 an hour but able to carry a collecting team of three people , with our usual equipment and the 500 litres of petrol needed for a long river trip . |
| 8 | CLOSE-UP TENDERNESS is the theme as Fergie and John Bryan share an intimate moment … watched by a long range camera |
| 9 | They had arrived outside and her cases were deposited in a long silver car that Jenna thought must be a foreign make , probably Italian . |
| 10 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 11 | Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair . |
| 12 | Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair . |
| 13 | However , if there are further operations requiring less secondary information , then another instruction format can be provided with a longer operation code field . |
| 14 | Acyclovir may be given on a long term basis to people with HIV who have had an attack of shingles , or have frequent attacks of herpes simplex . |
| 15 | There is no fixed investment period for a PEP although , to get the full benefit , it should be viewed as a longer term investment , ideally for a minimum period of between 5 and 10 years . |
| 16 | This is clearly not the case where some very frail old people are concerned but reciprocity can be viewed over a long time scale . |
| 17 | The Pathfinder Platoon is the only brigade sub-unit to use this free-fall technique , Which enhances the chances of avoiding detection and involves leaving the aircraft at heights of up to 25,000 feet , followed by a long free-fall descent and then landing using steerable parachutes . |
| 18 | Christmas puddings , jars of mincemeat , bunches of holly , fruit , nuts , table-mats , serviette-rings and dozens of other useful little articles they had made carefully and patiently were spread over a long trestle table in the hall . |
| 19 | The students all studied through a long distance learning scheme with four tutors based in different parts of Britain . |
| 20 | The gutter has an elliptical shape , is fixed with new pivot style clips and is fitted with a long radius downpipe . |
| 21 | Faced with a longer sales cycle for the Dragon , Sun expects to sell thousands of them in competition with Pyramid Technology Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Hewlett-Packard . |
| 22 | He was dressed in a long flannel shirt edged with lace , with flounces all down the middle , and five or six more on either side of the chest , all sewn with wool , in accordance with an Act of Parliament which forbids the use of linen or cotton for this purpose . |
| 23 | The results will be implemented in a long term interpretation programme for the Park , a programme which hopefully will be adopted elsewhere . |
| 24 | This experiment was conducted over a longer time period ( ten days ) , starting with young plants . |
| 25 | She was imprisoned in a long silk gown , her face pale and rather beautiful , with dark circles around deep , exhausted eyes . |
| 26 | Sunday winter evenings by the dining-room fire were very special — crumpets toasted on a long toasting fork by the fire ; watching the changing colours of the flames , and the sparks which shot into the chimney . |