Example sentences of "[vb pp] by long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of times we were attacked by long range German ‘ planes but fortunately on these occasions , they missed us . |
| 2 | Data on experimental animals show that it may be the long term consequence of glomerular haemodynamic abnormalities induced by long term hyperglycaemia . |
| 3 | Indeed , lifelong hypergastrinaemia , induced by long term administration of inhibitors of gastric acid secretion or partial fundectomy as well as exogenous gastrin administration , have been associated with pronounced hyperplasia of gastric argyrophil cells or development of ECL cell carcinoids in rats . |
| 4 | In rats , the hypergastrinaemia induced by long term omeprazole has resulted in enterochromaffin-like ( EC-like ) cell hyperplasia and , subsequently , gastric carcinoid formation . |
| 5 | It was Field in 1977 who had suggested that the glucose/sugar component of oral rehydration solutions could be replaced by long chain polymers of glucose , ie. starch . |
| 6 | Barron and Norris ( 1976 ) suggest that the labour market is divided into two segments — a primary sector which provides skilled , secure work at good levels of pay which is reached by long promotion ladders , and a secondary sector characterized by unskilled , insecure work with few promotion prospects and low levels of pay ( see figure 4.6 ) . |
| 7 | Drake easily recognised by long crest and elongated wing feathers . |
| 8 | In this way it combines the legitimacy conferred by long inheritance with the lustre and potency of some of the most prestigious diamonds recovered by man . |
| 9 | Consequently , you will slowly be able to eliminate many ailments that have been caused by long standing patterns of misuse . |
| 10 | But when the first baiter led his teams on to an unploughed field he did not have to trouble his head about the width of the stetches : that had been fixed by long usage and probably appeared to him then as unalterable an aspect of the landscape as the roads and the hedges . |
| 11 | Aquatic birds characterised by long neck , comparatively narrow and usually pointed wings , webbed feet , and ( except in the sawbills ) bill flattened and blunt . |
| 12 | Wilderness Of The Mind — Marc Bolan was compiled by long term fans John Williams and Caron Thomas , and chronicles the more obscure details and little known facts about his life . |
| 13 | This gives a clue to the location of Swinsto Hole , five minutes north-west and to Simpson 's Pot , over the wall in the next allotment east : their entrances are small and , masked by long grass , need a search but both admit to major cave systems . |
| 14 | H. W. Janson 's History of Art , the standard college textbook , did not at that time mention a single woman artist ’ ; and in discussing the period reviewed by the exhibition , various choices of media made by women artists are chronicled , for , ‘ Many women artists eschewed painting — especially abstract painting — as a domain polluted by long saturation with male dominant values , and developed their themes in performance . ’ |
| 15 | There was no sign of it on the surface — the track was probably carried over it on sleepers , long embedded in the mud of years — and the entrance to the drain was completely hidden by long grass . |
| 16 | The difference between the words for trusts and those for legacies was that the list for legacies was closed : there were set wordings , well established by long tradition . |
| 17 | Such patients were subsequently managed by long term sclerotherapy using the regime outlined earlier . |
| 18 | Late in the 1370s and early in the 1380s the world order , already upset by long war , seemed set to suffer yet further disruption . |
| 19 | His sonorous voice and deliberate utterance may to a great extent account for this but it should also be remarked that as Highbury Quadrant was the first church to introduce the Electrophone , perfection has been probably acquired by long practice in the details requisite to success . ’ |