Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by a long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Extensive entries for each of the artist 's works are preceded by a long chronology with numbered and itemised sections discussing in detail the major developments in Magritte 's career . |
2 | The concepts of each civilization , like the soil of its homeland , have been cultivated by a long tradition of directed effort , but in the last resort are not invented but given . |
3 | If you look at a bar code it will normally be accompanied by a long number ( usually eight or thirteen digits long ) . |
4 | Would not it be a disaster for business throughout the country suddenly to be confronted by a long list of new regulations and constraints ? |
5 | The performance of the housewife role in adulthood is prefaced by a long period of apprenticeship . |
6 | The house is approached by a long drive through pastoral fields . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Mr Leslie 's train was to leave platform 3 on the far left-hand side of the station which is linked by a long subway . |
9 | Sottomarina is linked by a long bridge , across the lagoon , to the town of Chioggia , ‘ Little Venice ’ , made up of narrow-straight canals and streets , hump-back bridges and colourful houses — it is one of the great wonders of Italy . |
10 | On the west side are the twin escarpments of Fell End Clouds and Stennerskeugh Clouds , and on the east a broad shelf is pitted by a long line of shakeholes and potholes , the Angerholme Pots . |
11 | The silence was eased by a long wail from a ship 's hooter from downstream . |
12 | In fact he was subjected to a very stiff , puritanical and doctrinal regime , only mitigated by the fact that he was educated by a long sequence of tutors , and seemed to have access to a lot of books . |
13 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
14 | The room , possibly used as a chancery by the duke , was dominated by a long table with chairs down either side and a high-backed , throne-like seat at the top . |
15 | Arguably he was known to Londoners less for his medical expertise than for his incredible eccentricity , which was exaggerated by a long beard , a predilection for extraordinary costume and his habit of riding about in the streets and Hyde Park on a white pony , which he sometimes painted all purple or , when the mood took him , purple with black spots . |
16 | It is widely accepted that the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century was preceded by a long period of gradual economic growth , but when the upturn began remains uncertain . |
17 | Situated on the outskirts of Cullbridge , it was reached by a long drive edged by trees and shrubs . |
18 | Here again he was alerted by a long tradition of Greek search for barbarian philosophers and seers . |
19 | Discussions on the subject had begun late in November , when the ‘ old navigator ’ had first became part of their lives , but Dorothy 's remark at the end of their walking tour that Coleridge 's poem would appear ‘ with some pieces of William 's ’ was followed by a long silence . |
20 | After the revolution , B. A. Henman , the Registrar of the Royal Society of Chemistry , explained that Elena Ceauşescu 's ‘ application was supported by a long list of papers published in her name … |
21 | When he took his seat , the trumpets blew and the dinner was served by a long line of servants who carried in plates of steaming hot boar 's meat , brawn , beef , sturgeon , fish , bowls of cream containing sugared strawberries , and jug after jug of different wines . |
22 | As Ken Plummer observes , whereas once it was the homosexual who was viewed as sick , now it might be the heterosexual who is charged with pathology : ‘ Whereas once the homosexual was identified by a long series of character traits , it is now possible to identify the traits of the homophobe : authoritarian , cognitively restricted , with gender anxieties , ( Plummer , ‘ Homosexual Categories ’ , 62 ) . |