Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my hon. Friend rightly said , the construction of the 08 , the fourth boat , is currently under way and authorities have been given for the long lead items . |
| 2 | The official definition of long-term unemployment is more than twelve months without work , although employment training , which is designed for the long term unemployed , requires entrants to have been on the register for more than six months . |
| 3 | Her kiss at the cottage gate left my mind occupied during the long walk back to the farm . |
| 4 | There is general agreement that in the elections which removed the Sandinistas from power earlier this year the Nicaraguan people voted against the long US-sponsored Contra war and their empty stomachs , not against the social reforms of the Revolution . |
| 5 | Interestingly , women 's wishes were more frequently considered with the longer section 3 than section 2 admissions ( 15 of 17 cases compared with 15 of 23 cases ) . |
| 6 | However , when cells were transfected with the longer N-Oct 3 cDNA ( Figure 3a , lane 6 , Fig. 3b plasmid IV ) there was an inverse intensity of the two N-Oct 5 bands . |
| 7 | His feet , shod in the long black leather boots of China 's Ming rulers , rested in the embrace of two reclining golden dogs carved in the throne 's base and in his hands he held an ivory wand bearing a tiny mirror , which , Tran Van Hieu had explained , he used to shield his face and demonstrate his symbolic humility before the spirits of his ancestors . |
| 8 | It must be admitted that the famous mould may well have strayed upstairs from the cultures on the floor below , and is perhaps to be included in the long list of profitable discoveries which arose from a lapse in maintaining the highest standards of laboratory practice . |
| 9 | Strict glycaemic control by using portable insulin pumps can arrest progression towards diabetic nephropathy , but this method 's safety must be considered in the long term . |
| 10 | As he said , it makes some criticism of the European dimension , but in paragraph 8 headed ’ Europe ’ it also says : ’ While local government structure in the UK can not be determined by the nature of European structural funds and the case for regional authorities with power over service delivery has not been made out , the European dimension must nonetheless be considered in the longer term . ’ |
| 11 | They 're not always to be trusted in the long term , you know . ’ |
| 12 | Even in these circumstances the approach provided a deep insight into the information needs of the organisation , and revealed a considerable number of potential improvements , some of which were implemented in the course of the study and others that were addressed in the longer term . |
| 13 | Particularly significant changes are found for residues located on the long E helix ( Glu 204 and Phe 208 ) . |
| 14 | Before Antony Licata styled the alternative look , dashes of golden copper lights were added to the longer areas at the top and sides . |
| 15 | Published by the Menil Foundation with Mercator Fonds and Thames & Hudson ( £45 ) , it is aimed at a wider readership , but it will be the essential essay for all students keen to learn how a great scholar 's opinions have been honed over the long years spent in the consideration of Magritte 's art . |
| 16 | It was still dominated by the long nose and wide mouth , also by eyes of an intense pale blue , which always seemed to focus sharply and penetratingly on whoever he was talking to . |
| 17 | These relatively thin walls are largely composed of cellulose , in the form of fibrillae , and Professor Preston , of Leeds , finds that these thin threads are disposed in the form of a very steep spiral or helix , wound around the long axes of the cells ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 18 | It was obviously written as encouragement to the soldiers and families separated during the long years of the Second World War , but it seemed to express the yearning that so many young men must have felt when they were far from their families , desolate and frightened : |
| 19 | As a new word is read from the ASCII file , the head list is searched for the longest string available from the start of the word . |
| 20 | Only one Valence had returned , to die slowly of poisons he had absorbed during the long march . |
| 21 | Those opening words from Marx 's Capital could have been written about the long postwar boom , the most striking feature of which was a quite breathtaking growth in production . |
| 22 | We saw our chance , and hastily we packed up and prepared for the long trek back the way we had come , to the Youth Hostel . |
| 23 | These are the pay and conditions which were imposed following the long spell of industrial action . |
| 24 | We were much pressed in argument with submissions that , although fraudulent conduct has become a serious social evil , there are other evils just as grave , or even graver , which have not attracted any special powers ; that if the reason for giving exceptional powers to the Serious Fraud Office is that many frauds involve complicated transactions which are difficult to unravel , then the same could be said of the long and complex trials ( for instance , arising from charges of affray , or of the importation and supply of prohibited drugs ) to which no such powers have been applied ; and that , moreover , the powers of the Office are made available even where the transactions in question are not complicated , since the Act applies to ‘ serious or complex fraud ’ — not ‘ serious and complex fraud . ’ |
| 25 | They are transparent , shaped like the long slender leaves of a willow and without fins except for an undulating fringe around their margin . |
| 26 | — CIU Honours Alan Frank , committeeman at Shotton Colliery WMC ( the Palms ) received the long service certificate and badge for 25 years service to the club and Ralph Kipling , vice-chairman at Cockfield Social Club for more than 17 years , was presented with the long service award by Durham CIU branch secretary Jack Amos . |
| 27 | How could she tell this hostile man that his brother had only suggested she pretend to be his fiancée as they 'd turned into the long drive leading up to Rocamar ? |
| 28 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 29 | It was incorporated into the longer Carolingian prologue . |
| 30 | Surely , however , the women who do make the transition from the grant-aided sector to the mainstream bring with them a history of political and creative experience which must make itself felt in the long run ? |