Example sentences of "[adv] of [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first glance , the head seemed to consist solely of a long nose protruding from a tangle of hair , thereby resembling the countenance of a maned vole , though considerably larger in size . |
| 2 | It had come from nowhere , out of a long silence , like something fired from a gun . |
| 3 | I was born in May 1947 , when the whole of Britain was thawing out of a long , freezing winter made crueller by a fuel crisis . |
| 4 | Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector . |
| 5 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
| 6 | At this moment a lion bursts out of the long grass and bush and leaps on a warrior . |
| 7 | He turned , staring out of the long window again , effectively dismissing the man . |
| 8 | Such long term fixed rate financing opportunities may not be so readily available in the future , with the chance of the corporate sector being crowded , or priced , out of the long end of the market . |
| 9 | Then , as some car in the street outside her hotel coughed and choked and backfired , Fabia abruptly came out of the long reverie she had fallen into , and back to the present , to realise that it was Monday morning — did she think she was going to sit there in bed all day ? |
| 10 | We sat on the cloud covered summit , two Scots and three Germans , eating chocolate and sandwiches , the last party of the day , thinking apprehensively of the long way back but all happy to have reached the top . |
| 11 | It is an immediate , positive image which embodies the character of this production , and indeed of the long tradition at Peter Cheeseman 's Vics Old and New . |
| 12 | So , instead of a long run of one opera followed by a long run of another , operas would only be performed perhaps twice in succession and then not again for two or three weeks , during which other works would be given . |