Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone , however , accepts the desirability or feasibility of a longer working life . |
| 2 | My mother , not believing in idleness and thinking of the long months that lay ahead of me , decided I should learn embroidery . |
| 3 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 4 | If the reader was nevertheless left with the feeling that music counted for most , it was partly because the bulk of the long treatise was in fact about music and nothing else . |
| 5 | Li , a veteran of the Long March of 1934-35 and a commander of the Red Army prior to its revolutionary victory in 1949 , was a self-taught economist from a peasant family . |
| 6 | Consequently many Greek writers of the fifth century and later realized that their own society was the end-product of a long period of advance . |
| 7 | The incorporation of a long passage from a Board of Education memo on evening schools indicates that the Committee feels itself to be in consonance with the Board " s thinking , not only on the inadequacies of vocational education , but also on the value of English as a force for cultural nationalization . |
| 8 | Technically speaking , this will certainly lead to the semi-recumbent stone circle of Strichen in the district of Banff and Buchan — but the dry guidebook makes no mention of a long , glorious stone wall , part of an old kitchen garden boundary ; in the distance loomed the huge ruined house of the Frasers . |
| 9 | The Royal Fine Art Commission , while regretting the loss of the long facade by Kirkland , felt that a tall building was needed to act as a gateway from the M8 . |
| 10 | In reality , of course , they are the result of a long chain of conscious decision making . |
| 11 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 12 | However , the Medical Officer wrote : ‘ A preferred standard of 50 mg/litre is the result of a long established consensus amongst scientists in the United Kingdom and internationally , ’ although ‘ transient excursions ’ above that level would have no importance ‘ in relation to the postulated role of nitrate in causation of cancer , since in this context the long-term average content is the significant figure . |
| 13 | It must be very galling for the KGB and GRU , having secured some seemingly important technical secret from the West as the result of a long , complex , covert operation , to see it wasted simply because Russian industry is quite incapable of utilising it . |
| 14 | What I am today is the result of a long process . |
| 15 | In the Netherlands , as a result of a long history of legislative enactment in socio-economic affairs and close involvement of unions and employers with government in this area the two national employers ' confederations ( denominational and non-denominational ) also carry somewhat greater weight than their member associations . |
| 16 | In any case , a study of neolithic Early Minoan buildings very strongly implies that the temples were not an implant but the result of a long period of indigenous development . |
| 17 | By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development . |
| 18 | The funeral , attended by President Turgut Özal , was the result of a long campaign for the rehabilitation of Menderes , led by the ruling Motherland Party and the opposition True Path Party . |
| 19 | It is a result of a long process of appraisal which is influenced by self evaluation as well as evaluation by others . |
| 20 | Sometimes they carried out the work at the Hankses ' cottage and occasionally at the farm , but so tired was Seb as a result of the long days he was working that twice he fell asleep while Carrie was writing . |
| 21 | One mutant ( H197K ) showed a 5-fold reduction in affinity for substance P but not in the affinities of other neurokinin peptides ( data not shown ) , which may indicate a perturbation of the substance P-receptor interaction as a result of the longer side chain and/or the positive charge of Lys197 . |
| 22 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 23 | Professor John in a seminal article stressed the great importance of the coincidence of a modest rate of population growth , putting no general pressure on a food supply expanded by a generation of agricultural improvement , with the bounty of a long period of good harvests . |
| 24 | All the way , on the back seat of the long bus , Gaily smoked a Park Drive and thought about death and dying . |
| 25 | In January 1989 the Civil Aviation Authority 's study of the long term options for the use of airspace and airports in the South East painted a gloomy picture of increasing airport delays and flight cancellations in the absence of more runway capacity . |
| 26 | In these difficult conditions the question whether nick points related to rejuvenation are present can sometimes be decided by a study of the long profiles of terraces downstream : as many terraces as there are nick points should merge with the present river profile at the hard bed . |
| 27 | A study of the long term detention of those found unfit to plead |
| 28 | By the embers of the fire in the grate of the long kitchen , the burly man had been asleep in a chair . |
| 29 | Apart front the ties of London , he liked and used Chequers a lot , and had established the almost unfailing rhythm of a long late summer-holiday at Aix-les-Bains in the French Alps . |
| 30 | In the dark of the long antiseptic corridors , green LEDs glowed , accompanied often by hums or growls . |