Example sentences of "[adv] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly the long train wound past the derelict shanty-town houses between the water and the tracks where Malcolm Lowry was writing his great novel , ‘ Under the Volcano ’ , straight to the Pacific terminal of the transcontinental railway . |
| 2 | I think the main reason for so many wasps this year is to , warm summers , and but it 's basically the long summer period , because we started , you see on the wasp complaints in May , which we do n't really start until half way through June , and we kept going right through , right until the middle of October , and they normally stop round the end of August , so that 's the main reason ; a very long , hot summer . |
| 3 | Carr : Yes , obviously the long term contract brings stability which will allow us to maximise training to achieve higher levels of flexibility and efficiency in offshore working . |
| 4 | The long back legs of such hunters look highly suitable for running , and as they did so the long tail may have been held erect as a kind of counter-balance ( see p. 116 ) . |
| 5 | And so the long lease was dreamt up by Grand Metropolitan and taken up with enthusiasm by the rest of the national pub owners and brewers . |
| 6 | So the longest side is |
| 7 | So the longer side is always the hypotenuse . |
| 8 | He turned away from them , and rode onwards to where the Circle began to grow more empty to the north , and soon there was only the long bar of the outer wall between him and the hills . |
| 9 | Playing two fewer matches , they finished only one try and 50 points short of their records and , in winning all 37 matches after losing to New Zealand in October 1989 , put together the longest sequence of victories by any Welsh senior club since the war . |
| 10 | Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support . |
| 11 | : I was playing football on the playing field at HMS Ganges when suddenly a long bugle call playing the Still sounded from the tannoy system . |
| 12 | Suddenly a long arm came out from under the rags and a bony hand grasped Marian 's shoulder . |
| 13 | She miss you velly much a long time . |
| 14 | If the report has to be in a statutory format ( eg a long form report ) check the required format while drafting to avoid amending later . |
| 15 | Particular care is needed where reports are prepared and it is believed that a person other than the client will have access to the report and may seek to rely upon it ( eg a long form report prepared for a vendor prior to sale ) . |
| 16 | If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls . |
| 17 | An account of the decline of partisan and religious strife , by contrast , would take us past the Hanoverian Succession — indeed , perhaps a long way past it . |
| 18 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |
| 19 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |
| 20 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 21 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 22 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 23 | And if ‘ planning ’ is now possible at the level of the giant enterprise , perhaps straddling several branches of production , then the planning of the economy to meet social objectives is at least ‘ put on the agenda ’ : what was only a long run historical speculation in the era of smaller-scale entrepreneurial capitalism begins to look like an economically feasible proposition . |
| 24 | Since 1986 's ‘ It 's Only A Long Way Across ’ , his songs have come wrapped in an electric blanket which has been soaked in the bog-holes of Ireland and then dry cleaned in the side alleys of Greenwich Village . |
| 25 | I think I shall have to get is a decent FM radio , I use a radio more than a tape actually in the car , but mine 's only a long medium wave job . |
| 26 | It was not only a long job , but a painful one for Deborah , the backs of whose hands were pricked , scored and smeared with blood before she succeeded in freeing the lamb altogether . |
| 27 | We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves . |
| 28 | " We 've been together a long time Her voice went thick and inarticulate . |
| 29 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 30 | Lastly lastly a longer question where the answer would have to be two and three sentences erm yes but do n't tell everybody . |