Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gateshead and the Reed family seemed a long way away . |
| 2 | I duly knitted two backs , marked the shape of the front neck and also a slight ‘ dip ’ on the back section and stitched two lines with the sewing machine using a long stitch . |
| 3 | A common criticism levelled at the preregistration year concerns the long hours of work . |
| 4 | The Geometricks styler took a long time to heat up . |
| 5 | Another mechanism , producing movement in the vertical plane , is indicated by Hollick 's ( 1940 ) finding that in Muscina a reduction in the amplitude of the wing-beat causes the thrust vector to intersect the long axis of the insect 's body behind the centre of gravity , so altering the cephalo-caudal couple around this centre . |
| 6 | But the intelligence fraternity has a long track record of trying to fool others and in the process usually ends up fooling itself . |
| 7 | We recall that the confessional idea has a long history . |
| 8 | The immigration issue left a long legacy of US Japanese hostility which surfaced in the injustices suffered by many US citizens of Japanese descent during the war with Japan , 1941–5 . |
| 9 | The 17.5 per cent stake represents roughly a quarter of Anglia 's market capitalisation , but David McCall , chief executive , said he believed ‘ the share price has a long way to go yet ’ . |
| 10 | The UK group has a long standing commitment , made to the Hong Kong Government , to broaden the shareholder base of Hong Kong Telecom and a deal with CITIC would be consistent with that . |
| 11 | If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice . |
| 12 | The door closed , with yellow light from the kerosene lamp making a long crack on the floor . |
| 13 | These services are still delivered through the traditional hierarchical structures with decisions being ‘ handed down ’ and information from the ground level taking a long time to reach and influence the making of decisions and policy . |
| 14 | Nothing much between the two teams on form … they 're two places and eight points apart … both are in the frame for the play-off places but the promotion race has a long way to go yet … |
| 15 | The Training scheme has a long and proud history . |
| 16 | The tobacco industry plans a long time ahead . |
| 17 | On one side of the bridle path ran the long low flint wall of Dersingham Park , on the other , the estuary . |
| 18 | The frailties of the holiday romance have a long history . |
| 19 | That was attached to for the July Course the Jockey Club runs a long way right near round on to the Swaffham Road , yeah see runs right up , right up to the Swaffham Road , you see . |
| 20 | The low sun made the street wall cast a long black shadow over half the garden , but it stopped just to the right of her patch . |
| 21 | The sky was a place of awakening , of vigour , as full of life as the million seeds in the earth Woolley hacked a long , scarlet gash in it with a burst of machine-gun fire and pulled up hard into a tight , half-rolling turn so that he could look back and down . |
| 22 | If we then look at paragraph five , that 's the first page of appendix two , we see here The appeal site has a long planning history . |
| 23 | The mountain goat has a long , shaggy coat , brilliant white immediately after the autumn moult , but dirty yellow by the end of the winter . |