Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 31 | And that took a long time getting used to . |
| 32 | What we are witnessing is the eager consummation that follows a long and passionate seduction . |
| 33 | Mr. John Jeffery , the auctioneer , looked himself every inch a farmer and had a wonderfully fruity voice that carried a long way . |
| 34 | ‘ I think it 's a waste of time growing vegetables such as sprouts and cabbages that take a long time to grow and are cheap in the shops , but I enjoy growing beans , carrots and marrows . |
| 35 | It is towards high definition programs that take a long time to write . |
| 36 | We are committed to putting money and people into the sort of programmes that take a long time to make . |
| 37 | In apprehension of the critical hordes sweeping through Cologne en route to Documenta and the Basel Art Fair , many galleries are ending the spring season with shows that take the long view . |
| 38 | The boat left a wake that rocked the long drifts of dead leaves on the water and slapped against the quay below them . |
| 39 | There is , however , one procedure that has been found to produce apparently the reverse effect — Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) have demonstrated that leaving a long interval between the last session of pre-exposure to the stimulus and the first test session will result in the restoration of an habituated UR while leaving latent inhibition unaffected . |
| 40 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 41 | to develop from a small beginning in manageable steps rather than to spend a long period identifying ‘ all ’ institutional needs and all required data items followed by software development of a ‘ complete ’ system on an unmanageable scale ; |
| 42 | Those that need a long day-length to complete their life-cycle often refuse to bloom in the shade . |
| 43 | Start off , indoors or under cover , half-hardy annuals that need a long growing season , such as Begonia semperflorens , gloxinias , trailing lobelias for hanging baskets , and pelargoniums . |
| 44 | The rise in unemployment and the fall in output at the start of the decade could be seen as the low point of a cycle which started with the 1930s ' innovations in chemical industries and light engineering and generated the new consumer durable industries that fuelled the long post-Second-World-War boom . |
| 45 | Other quick-growing plants are tomatoes and runner beans , but these plants that mature in the autumn are not really suitable for schools that have a long August holiday , as continuity is lost , even if help is available to care for the plants . |
| 46 | The processes usually called upon to explain the distribution of art-styles have been , for the ‘ conforming type ’ ( those that have a long observable development ) diffusion , and for intrusive new types , migration and invasion . |
| 47 | Indeed , there is a strong argument that stretching the long arm of the law to the ‘ innocent ’ hacker could escalate rather than curb serious crime . |
| 48 | As Christiansson ( 1988 ) describes , rotational bush-fallowing and permanent agriculture are gradually replacing shifting cultivation in an area that experiences a long dry season and a short intense wet season . |
| 49 | However , I think it is Standing Order No. 62(b) which states that a Committee can amend a Bill and change the long title for that purpose . |
| 50 | He heard the French boy whispering urgently , then the chief grunted and plunged a long hollow bamboo rod into the ternum jar and drank a deep draught . |
| 51 | Do they really physically raise a sardonic eyebrow , and make a long face , or only metaphorically ? |
| 52 | But you 'd do better to come down with me and make the long trip round . ’ |
| 53 | He was a radical and something of an agnostic , and read a long paper on the evils of war at the Union Society at a time when such views were certainly not popular . |
| 54 | He swung round , still with Emma in his arms , and not until he saw Peggy dash up the room and pick the long , steel poker from its rest on the brass open-work fender did he release her . |
| 55 | I became especially interested in apes and made a long study of chimpanzees . |
| 56 | I bought some black jersey scalloped with gold embroidery from the market , and made a long , three-tiered , halter-necked gown . |
| 57 | Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory , and made a long speech about fascist imperialism . |
| 58 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 59 | The Triplane came after him and made a long , angled pass , but he was unaware of it . |
| 60 | Given the requirement that medical evidence has to be served with the proceedings , and given the long waiting lists that now apply for very senior surgeons , it might be a good idea either to get an initial report from the treating surgeon or to use one of the independent physicians mentioned above . |