Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly significant changes are found for residues located on the long E helix ( Glu 204 and Phe 208 ) . |
| 2 | The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff . |
| 3 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 4 | Such accommodation can often be let on a long lease or sold to raise a capital sum . |
| 5 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 6 | By then we should have completed any changes to the constitution and bye-laws , have decided on the long term future of our examination system and have strengthened our financial position so that we can meet the costs involved . |
| 7 | The growth hormone locus has also been mapped on the long arm of chromosome 17 , at 17q 22–24 , close to the BRCA1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families . |
| 8 | We 've moved on a long way from the original version . ’ |
| 9 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 10 | A superb outing of this kind can be had on the long Nantlle ridge — comprising six miles and six mountains of excellent high-level walking . |
| 11 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 12 | Maidstone Prison has embarked on a long and costly process to bring integral sanitation to cells , to avoid the ‘ slopping out ’ process and the need to have chamber pots in cells . |
| 13 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 14 | An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun . |
| 15 | They are borne on a long , stout , fleshy leaf-stalk . |
| 16 | This species has a finely toothed margin ; a large , wide leaf born on a long stem . |
| 17 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 18 | Once inside the room , the two officers stripped off their black uniform jackets , and sprawled on the long sofa . |
| 19 | The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme . |
| 20 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |
| 21 | This chapter concentrates on these three national clearinghouses already established , and is based on a longer paper on the subject . |
| 22 | However , the press in the other European member states rightly concentrated on the long list of measures that were agreed and signed in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 23 | In this tale , two weeds grew on a river bank ; one of them conserved its energy , and grew low and small and brown , with its sights set on a long life , while the other put forth all its strength into growing tall and into colouring itself a beautiful green . |
| 24 | Her oval face with its large dark eyes and high forehead was set on a long , graceful neck . |
| 25 | This patient was shown as homozygous with the probe Lambda MS32 , assigned on the long arm of chromosome 1 ( 1q43–43 ) , for his normal and primary tumour DNA . |
| 26 | Light green whorls of finely branched , feather-like leaves arranged on a long , green , wiry stem . |
| 27 | She did n't need to read the manufacturer 's name to recognise the sleek lines of a Bang and Olufsen television and VCR or its matching hi-fi and CD player stacked on a long , low teak drawer-unit . |
| 28 | Acyclovir may be given on a long term basis to people with HIV who have had an attack of shingles , or have frequent attacks of herpes simplex . |
| 29 | Hilary 's away for the day — gone on a long hike to tune himself up , as he put it . |
| 30 | Well I think that it 's gone on a long time and it 's not |