Example sentences of "[art] long [noun sg] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next week I thought long and hard about undertaking an interview with the Queen Mother which would cover every aspect of her life but the great historical event which had changed it for ever ; which had propelled her and her husband to the throne , had made happy and glorious a reign which might otherwise have been disastrous , yet which was tragically cut short by illness and death , and which in the long run had made her far and away the most loved of all the members of the Royal Family . |
| 2 | The long drive had tired her out and Jenna made her supper and went to bed quite early . |
| 3 | At Thurso , the long beach had disappeared into the sea , and the tide had swept over the grassland behind it , taking twenty drekar and pinnaces with it . |
| 4 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 5 | Obviously the top of the long barn had been divided into two . |
| 6 | Outside the long window had passed the helmets of marching men . |
| 7 | The long night had had a result ; he was back in control again . |
| 8 | The long silence had given her time to pull herself together . |
| 9 | Similarly a few lines further on , in the description of the journey to Golgotha , the long version has " goost , swete Ihesu out of Ierusalem toward " ( p.99 ) , where the interjection of " swete Ihesu " interrupts the action of the scene and lends the whole description a devotional tone . |
| 10 | The long wait had told on Perdita 's nerves . |
| 11 | Patients who 've complained about the long wait have been sent letters of apology . |
| 12 | This separation of the responsibilities of public office from the personal qualities of the incumbent has in the long term had a number of important consequences on decision-making in rural areas . |
| 13 | The long list have been told that erm , erm , notices were being made at and I think that 's right , is n't it ? |
| 14 | It seemed to her that the long war had been a form of imprisonment for the spirit as well as the body . |
| 15 | Discovering the long putter has changed Torrance 's career . |
| 16 | Many of the seafront hotels on the long esplanade have become nursing homes or been demolished for cliff-like apartment blocks with their individual balconies looking out to sea . |
| 17 | He 's got a long plug has n't he ? |
| 18 | ‘ The inconvenience arising from cold in the most carefully constructed railway carriage , where a long journey has to be performed in the winter season , suggested to the directors the necessity of fixing a warming apparatus in the bed of the carriage , and Mr. Perkins , the inventor of the steam gun , has accordingly fitted a very ingenious apparatus for the purpose of heating the carriage , which may be thus briefly described : — a coil of pipe placed near the hinder axletree , and supplied with water from a small cistern in the bed of the carriage , is kept heated by means of a lamp with four burners . |
| 19 | None of this , however , could obscure the triumph of the Prince 's baptism at Notre Dame on 14 June 1856 , a long delay having been necessary because the Empress had been so weak after the birth that she was unable to leave her bed for months . |
| 20 | The seven Old Master galleries have been intelligently installed , and a long corridor has been converted into an evocation of a baroque Kunstkammer , complete with pilastered cabinets for the display of paintings and objets d'art . |
| 21 | Not all of those people by a long way have any olympic ambitions but is nonetheless an important part of the perspective and indeed at the triangle that we need to support . |
| 22 | It 's a long way to have one |
| 23 | You , of course , have your headquarters in Tunbridge Wells , is n't that rather a long way to have much contact with Brighton ? |
| 24 | Afterwards , she lay there , shattered , as if a long fall had dashed her body to the ground . |
| 25 | Other plants illustrated from diverse regions were the Bermudan Cedar , Lord Weymouth 's Pine , a Long Con 'd Cornish Fir and the Scarlet Horse Chestnut from America . |
| 26 | have hunted , slain and carried away deer , hares , coneys , pheasants and partridges … threatening the King 's officers in life and limb , so that they … for a long while have not dared openly to pass and do their business there . |
| 27 | you ai n't blushed like that for a long while have you ? , yeah , that will be a holiday , watch your camp bed do n't fold up love |
| 28 | Friends can come quite a long distance to have Sunday lunch with you , whereas for an evening dinner , there probably would not be enough time . |
| 29 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 30 | It said that its study had not discovered any conclusive evidence on the damage done to humans by low-level exposure , but it stated that the lack of information and knowledge of the effects of exposure to low doses of the chemicals over a long period had led the working party to adopt the precautionary principle that absence of evidence was not evidence of absence . |