Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] long [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again some instincts have been developed through long continued and inherited habits . |
| 2 | Obviously , if all security interests were possessory it would make secured borrowing virtually impossible as a debtor would be deprived of the ability to use the assets subject to the security in the course of business ( but English law has for long recognised non-possessory security interests ) . |
| 3 | They swam like long rubbery strip-lights through the water 's gentle currents , and kept the rooms , corridors and towers of the castle bathed in a silky , pervasive light which sometimes made distances hard to measure and gave the air a thick sort of look . |
| 4 | There are sudden , dramatic leaps in small children 's learning , interspersed with long fallow periods when nothing seems to happen . |
| 5 | McDonald 's restaurants in Central and South America ( Argentina , Brazil , Costa Rica , Guatemala , Mexico , Panama and Venezuela ) only use suppliers who document that their beef has come from long established cattle ranches — not rainforest land . |
| 6 | All of this was contained within long classical façades , with corner pavilions setting off all four sides . |
| 7 | They were formed where gases and liquids from the deep molten rock — the magma of the earth — escaped and cooled in long thin cracks in and around the granite batholiths . |
| 8 | One vast hall of columns gave on to another as the temple rose in long slow ramps towards the inner sanctuaries : seven chapels dedicated to seven gods . |
| 9 | I was going to write to Long Tall Sally ca n't make up my mind if I should or I should n't but it has got those little |
| 10 | The arm combs are well developed ; consisting of long pointed spinelets . |
| 11 | Dusting his hands , Peter stood with one foot on the parapet of the wall , which was about ten inches wide , made of long flat slabs of stone . |
| 12 | The wind bowing with long cat-gut cries |
| 13 | The sun was gliding in long flickering beams across the wooden floor . |
| 14 | He was wearing a polonecked sweater of such advanced dilapidation that the hem hung in long woollen fronds almost to his knees , and as he tremblingly attempted to light his pipe he looked very vulnerable . |
| 15 | The waves change from regular undulations to sharp crests separated by long flat troughs . |
| 16 | In the air-conditioned House of Commons , set in the English climate , and with the long recess allowing members to look for long hot beaches , such a plagiarism illustrated how not to employ catch-phrases of the day . |
| 17 | For these high speeds very specialised equipment is used with long narrow boards often less than a foot wide and with specially reinforced camber-induced sails . |
| 18 | This latter is the product of teaching which uses for its arbiter of right and wrong , contentious standards which have been produced from long established religions which in turn claim to have mystic knowledge of right and wrong supplied by some extraterrestrial and undefined ‘ god ’ . |
| 19 | The enclosure turned the Broyle into the landscape of ploughland bisected by long straight roads that it still remains . |
| 20 | The bedrooms are reached through long open corridors of marble . |
| 21 | Taped to the mirror behind the bottles was a poster of the Lapierre of Dijon cycling team squinting into the sun , arms crossed , immense thighs bulging from long black shorts . |
| 22 | F1 Cherry Delicious bite-sized fruits borne on long trailing Wonder trusses ; good disease resistance ; free from greenback ; greenhouse , outdoors , cordon . |
| 23 | In perfect unison , based on long marital experience and an infinitesimal twitch of the eyebrows , Desmond and Margaret Seymour-Strachey rose from their chairs and began making the ritual noises . |
| 24 | We had two perfect days skiing , early morning climbs being rewarded by long sweeping runs back down to the valley bottom on sun-softened neve . |
| 25 | He tested the 1:8 mixture in bottles of various sizes until he found that it would not explode in long narrow tubes that offered a large cooling surface . |
| 26 | An elected body may spring from long democratic tradition or little , from a multicultural society or a homogeneous one . |
| 27 | Then the pattern actually adopted consists of long parallel rolls ; i.e. the single wavenumber pattern that it resembles may be taken as having ( cf. ( 22.7 ) ) |
| 28 | Rumours also abound about a herd of wild boars on the less frequented side of Ben Wyvis , that run snorting out of the mist without warning , charging with long vicious tusks at walkers unfortunate enough to step into their territory . |
| 29 | Today , as a Dominican nun , she stays fully clothed in long white habit and black wimple , running a disabled people 's home near Biarritz , France . |
| 30 | Guido was leaning forward too now , dark eyes shadowed by long dark lashes . |