Example sentences of "[art] long [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon .
2 And in doing so she has proved herself a mightier force than the Palace propaganda machine , which suggested that she might not attend because she was too old and frail to make the long journey to Crathie Church .
3 The long journey to a holy place where they would encounter the divine in a special way was a graphic demonstration of the Christian orientation to God ; the hardships of the road , which rich and poor shared side by side , gave the pilgrims an impressive experience of community , charity and poverty , with its rider : dependence upon God alone .
4 As eighth reserve for the tournament the chances were slim , but he decided to make the long journey to Crooked Stick , Indiana , on the off-chance .
5 Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match .
6 For the long journey to the Pole , they needed a lot of food , and they could n't carry it all with them .
7 ’ And the boy in Toulouse or Poitiers or Bordeaux or Rouen , still secretly anxious about the long journey to the capital , feels his head filling up with snobbery and lust .
8 It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness .
9 Where possible the ore , as has been mentioned , was hand dressed in preparation for the long journey to Keswick .
10 He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect .
11 Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team .
12 Saddest export a convoy of lorries begins the long journey to China and , inset , the furnace as it used to be at the height of production Picture : VIC CLEVELEY
13 Many hundreds of Londoners have moved out into the central south region , opting for a cheaper home at the cost of the long journey to work .
14 Even extremists of the 1960s , who believed that the task of a school was to ensure that children enjoyed themselves while they were pupils , must have had in mind , as well , some further outcome , some advantage that would flow in the long run to the children who had been encouraged , under that regime , to ‘ grow ’ and ‘ blossom ’ and ‘ flourish ’ in the ‘ learning situation ’ provided by the class-room .
15 That may still be prudent if your fish are in the top-quality bracket , but otherwise it may pay in the long run to be looking at 12″ Koi upwards .
16 THE FOLLOWING day is Saturday , and the Inspirals rise at some unearthly hour for the long drive to San Francisco .
17 The windows overlooked the long drive to distant entrance gates .
18 He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun .
19 Well what they 're doing actually it 's quite right because they 're they tended to play the long ball to Steve Walsh so that he could head it down and what they 're doing actually they 've got two four foot eight forwards in Jochim and Speedy and a nine foot seven winger Ormanroyd
20 Oates was waiting at the door to lead Patrick down the long corridor to the office opposite the actual mortuary .
21 The long ridge to their left looked particularly bleak and lifeless , the heavy clay sitting solidly in the ridges where the plough had left it months before , no trace of last year 's crop , nothing to indicate that this was good cereal country .
22 To help the long trek to some of the tees , the Committee allow cars to be driven over the course to suitable parking lots .
23 In daylight at dawn , it was time to leave the palace and head south on the long trek to Bombay .
24 The long trek to Cyprus last week may well have contributed to Bangor 's heavy defeat on Saturday — their first in domestic football in games — but it was also down to some poor defending and mistakes by goalkeeper Stephen Eachus .
25 It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris .
26 If the wind drops below 50mph , they will begin the long haul to the 29,000ft summit .
27 We continued into the upper , easier couloir , not realising that most people abseil off to avoid the long haul to the summit .
28 They drank coffee and played cards throughout the long haul to London , only interrupting their concentration for the Sheikh 's frequent visits aft to watch over his son .
29 All the time Wyn lived next to him in a nurses ' home , helping every day on the long haul to some form of recovery .
30 It is necessary to get things into perspective before the long haul to the Southern Hemisphere , though .
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