Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Deng Yingchao 's authority arose not only from her marriage to Zhou in 1925 , but also from her status as one of only around 50 women to have completed the Long March of 1934-35 . |
2 | It is focused on pricing and delivering saying Unix software has outgrown the long sales cycle . |
3 | Given the long lead-time between ordering a nuclear plant and its commercial operation , the high cost of construction , the equally awful cost of eventually decommissioning it , the margin for safety , the time-consuming process of obtaining approval ( the enquiry into all aspects of the British PWR Sizewell B took two-and-a-quarter years and cost £20 million ) the commitment has to be strong and ‘ strategic ’ enough — as in France — to counter the lack of resolve as the bills mount . |
4 | Given the long dormancy of the virus , some people now in monogamous relationships of several years standing could have become HIV positive before they met their present partner , and be completely unaware of this fact . |
5 | The tone of Gould 's letter was typically formal and cursory , given the long hours and the revelations they had shared . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Given the long times required to charge the larger rods , you can see that after getting a first qualitative result with the smallest rods within a few weeks , a proper quantitative analysis to test the variation with rod diameter and current , and so establish the nature of the effect would take a long time . |
8 | However , given the long lead-times in manufacture and construction , it was recognised that the standardisation could only have an effect in the forward programmes for 1950 onwards . |
9 | Short-term contracyclical changes in electricity investment were , moreover , extremely difficult for the Boards to accommodate , given the long lead-times of their investment projects . |
10 | In the surgical specialties the problem of allocating time to research is particularly acute given the long apprenticeship necessary to learn technical skills . |
11 | Popescu , a former propaganda chief , and Totu , a former Foreign Minister , were given the longest prison sentences , of 5@1/2 years each , while the others received sentences of two to 4@1/2 years . |
12 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
13 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
14 | Seeing how nature treats an inept hedgehog made me very glad that we have won the long counter-insurgency war with nature in the western world : but too weak-minded a reverence for nature is going to allow us to treat fellow humans as if they were hedgehogs in the shrubbery . |
15 | And they 'd all took the long tours you know they really were interested |
16 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
17 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
18 | Well backed after catching the eye previously , he strolled home by 12 lengths , having his race won a long way out . |
19 | Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour . |
20 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
21 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
22 | But because the new craft will broadcast at a high power , they will have to be spaced a long way apart so that TV sets in , say , Canada do not receive signals meant for the US . |
23 | ‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on . |
24 | The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available . |
25 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
26 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
27 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
28 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
29 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
30 | Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion ! |