Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , the heads using the long reach spark plugs are better ported and valved than the earlier heads . |
| 2 | ‘ How about you , Mark … . ’ began the top man , his eyes searching the long table for the Englishman . |
| 3 | Looking at the yield curve graphically , Fig. 17.2(a) shows the ‘ normal ’ yield curve we would expect to find , with yields rising the longer the bond ( gilt ) has to go to maturity . |
| 4 | There was a sinister and often rehearsed entrance wearing a long cloak and looking like Count Dracula . |
| 5 | Stephen saw the police cars coming a long way off , three of them in a convoy coming up the white road from Hilderbridge . |
| 6 | It took a moment to convince herself that the tall , dark , imposing figure leaving the long , opulent vehicle really was Luke . |
| 7 | From the early 1920s Chiang devoted much of his attention to suppressing his communist rivals rather than forming a united front with them to resist the Japanese , but they established a strong base in the northwest following the Long March of 1934 . |
| 8 | I remember a Rhodesian in our squadron writing a long letter to the ‘ Malta Times ’ about this very subject , but I do n't think it was ever published . ’ |
| 9 | He saw none of our usual green cucumbers for sale , the Dutch preferring a long , white , prickly variety , not as watery or so full of seeds . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Very small amounts can be dealt with by the body causing no long term harm . |
| 12 | The 1981 Regulations have been much amended and extended so that now each school must provide a School Prospectus containing a long list of prescribed information , including information about the curriculum , qualifications obtainable and careers education , and an Annual Report , including updates to the prospectus and dates and times of the school term . |
| 13 | The children sit in a circle holding a long piece of string , on which is tied a ring . |
| 14 | JAPAN 'S economic miracle has contributed to its population having the longest life expectancy in the world and Britain 's social and health policy makers could learn from it , two researchers claimed yesterday . |
| 15 | Then his eyes , red-rimmed from weeping , widened dementedly and he lunged from his place swinging the long blade of his coupe-coupe high above his head . |
| 16 | Most of the above rules show stress tending to go on syllables containing a long vowel or diphthong and/or ending with more than one consonant . |
| 17 | It 's another piece of evidence suggesting a long term buildup towards a serious mercury crisis . |
| 18 | ‘ I love watching lights twinkling a long way away . |
| 19 | Pete 's sea , the sea around the oil-rig , was grey , surely , up there in the cold : metallic and swelling , full of menace , fog drifting over the water , wreaths of mist obscuring the long , iron joints , the hard angles sticking up out of the ice-cold darkness of the waves . |
| 20 | Nor does the performance seem anything but studio bound , at least until a more involving Act 3 , as compared with any of the sets listed above , two made in the theatre , the other exhibiting the long experience of Furtwängler in the work . |
| 21 | Among his acquisitions which now ornament the garden are a superb collection of third-century Roman marble sarcophagi , richly carved in high relief ; a splendid group of eighteenth-century North Italian commedia dell'arte figures decorating the Long Garden , admirably suited to the whimsical topiary there ; and a commission of Lord Astor 's , Ralph Waldo Story 's riotously blowsy Fountain of Love made in 1897 which forms an eyecatcher ( to put it mildly ) in the drive . |
| 22 | The door closed , with yellow light from the kerosene lamp making a long crack on the floor . |
| 23 | Grant , whose wife Dawn died in October following a long battle with cancer , added : ‘ The boss always used to say to me how tough Dawn was , but there was no one tougher than Arthur . ’ |
| 24 | Ca n't you see a reincarnated Grace lashing the Long Room with scorn and fury on hearing the vapid 68 words that purported to explain this summer 's vilest scandal . |
| 25 | He was leaning back in his chair smoking a long , fat cigarette in a stubby black holder . |
| 26 | We get people coming a long way , in the car . |
| 27 | I SPENT most of Friday morning having a long talk with Paul Seddon — Assistant Commissioner Seddon , who is our department 's special representative at New Scotland Yard . |
| 28 | A recreation city , apparently , for the officers of the garrison at Silcaster , and the legions tramping the long course of Watling Street . |
| 29 | The conduit carrying the longer outer channel across the head of the forward plane was also constructed of steel plate and was supported on brick piers . |
| 30 | 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 . |