Example sentences of "[prep] long [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 2 | The joiner work was from nicely matched teak , the surface of which showed few of the marks that one would expect in a yacht whose log has ticked off more than 16,000 miles ( 25,000km ) of long distance cruising . |
| 3 | In rats that have been sent into space , the breaking strength of long bones decreased by between 30 and 50 per cent , says Richard Grindeland of Ames . |
| 4 | he screamed to persuade himself that he was not frightened , and suddenly the barricade dissolved in an explosion of smoke through which the musket flames stabbed like shivers of light and the General 's long white moustache was whipped by a bullet that went on to tear away his left ear-lobe , but that was the only injury he took for he had always been a lucky man , and he caught a glimpse of long weeds shivering under the silver water beneath the bridge , then he kicked his heels hard back , and his awkward ugly horse clumsily jumped the heaped-chairs at the right-hand end of the barricade . |
| 5 | He chewed his thumbnail as he walked , out of long experience keeping in mind the highest priorities : Ensure Body Not Moved and Ensure Next of Kin Notified before the Press got the story . |
| 6 | And Bruno , sections of his undershirt cut away to emphasize his carefully-nurtured musculature — the result of long hours pumping iron , not expensive bio-implants — a cigar between his teeth , the flexible aluminium whip in his hand . |
| 7 | ‘ We were acting on complaints of long standing made by the Forestry Commission , who own the land in question . ’ |
| 8 | Social institutions of long standing sustain their own value systems . |
| 9 | Erm , they give a complex number of cues , erm , when they are about to finish their conversation , erm , I how did they manage to it 's shown , it shown through the gaze of the speaker erm , erm , the speaker coming to the end of long actions has been shown to gaze heavily at the listener . |
| 10 | This warns that one of the leads to the keyboard must be twisted , and the user should beware of long component leads from the Spectrum 's PCB shorting out on the metal base . |
| 11 | Then down swooped a sparrow hawk , smaller , more uniform , feathers of long tail closed . |
| 12 | One might be surprised to find a series of long letters extending over many weeks on Ossian and the Clyde . |
| 13 | As independent chain mobility can not be discounted for these longer chains after the onset of entanglement , a modified model is required to account for the ability of long chains to translate and diffuse through the polymer matrix , i.e. the entanglement network must be considered as being transient . |
| 14 | The wisdom of long convention holds that the only leader acceptable to all Kampucheans is Prince Sihanouk . |
| 15 | It looked like a bloody great sea of Afghan coats with tufts of long hair poking out from them . |
| 16 | The article ‘ Snowdon the Hard Way ’ by Jerry Rawson ( June 1991 ) revived many pleasant memories of long days spent over 40 years ago in the mountains of Snowdonia . |
| 17 | Men and women who reported average or worse health in the past 12 months had 60% higher rates of short spells of absence and more than twice the rates of long spells compared with those who reported good health . |
| 18 | The medium contains a high concentration of long chain polyunsaturated fats , similar to those found in some natural vegetable products . |
| 19 | At the main gate of the palace officials drove back the unauthorized with the unsparing use of long bamboos to clear a passageway . |
| 20 | That is to say , his explanation of long waves lies in technological change which results from the bunching of innovations made by entrepreneurs . |
| 21 | It was full of long baseline rallies that sap the concentration and the patience . |
| 22 | First , the theoretical and morphological evidence indicates that while most other types of long tails have probably evolved through sexual selection , natural selection for aerodynamic efficiency may be a sufficient explanation for the evolution of many elongated forked tails . |
| 23 | To clarify a possible role for synthesis of leukotrienes in damage caused by NSAIDs we investigated the effects of long term NSAID treatment on gastric mucosal LTB 4 , LTC 4 , and prostaglandin E 2 ( PGE 2 ) concentrations in patients with arthritis compared with control subjects not taking NSAIDs . |
| 24 | Until the results of long term follow up are available the ability of our creatine kinase assay to detect Becker cases remains uncertain . |
| 25 | Stockman recognized that the sort of fundamental change he sought ‘ would have hurt millions of people in the short run ’ and involved the , ‘ ruthless dispensation of short run pain in the name of long term gain' , but these , he believed , were the hazards that true revolutionaries faced without flinching . |
| 26 | We do not deny the value of long term repeated measurements of height for all children and have advocated that these should start at the earliest possible age . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , in the event that , in the future , short term letting could not provide a sufficiently profitable return , the possibility of long term letting or even the complete selling off of a number of these chalets , can not be ignored . |
| 28 | She approved of the crispness of the linen coifs of nuns , the ironed cleanness of her mother 's Sunday gloves , the drift of long tulle skirts that had stirred about her on her First Communion day , the soft transparency of the veils of village brides . |
| 29 | Defeated election candidate Paul Rayner has honoured a pledge he made during the campaign to members of Middlesbrough 's Muslim community by writing to the new Home Secretary with details of long delays experienced by would-be immigrants . |
| 30 | At Taï , the chimpanzees make use of many other tools , such as long sticks to extract ants from a nest , and bunches of leaves to soak up water from pools in trees . |