Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | A commonly held example of such an error comes not from neuroscience but from genetics , where for a long time there was a rather simple-minded assumption that the physiology and behaviour of an organism ( its phenotype ) could be arbitrarily divided into two components , one given by the genes , the other by the environment . |
| 2 | But it has been a rough 18 months for him and there is still a gauntness about him , even if he does claim he has never felt fitter and that his swing is closer to being ‘ on track ’ than for a long time . |
| 3 | David Boole of Jaguar Cars describes the medium-term as healthier than for a long time' . ’ |
| 4 | In time Michael too came to accept their centrality , although for a long time he asked when he could go home to his parents . |
| 5 | Nevertheless conditions in which limited but often intense urban nationalism would flourish were being created and would provide a catalyst of future revolution ; although for a long time fears that educated Vietnamese would rise up against their French masters were certainly not encouraged by the numbers of children in school . |
| 6 | I was suddenly terrified , as if from a long distance away I had seen my family poised on the edge of a crumbling cliff , unaware and smiling . |
| 7 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 8 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 9 | The cardinal points of her compass card were friendship with Great Britain ( partly because of traditional and sentimental reasons and partly because of a long coastline ) and watchfulness towards her neighbours , Austria-Hungary and France . |
| 10 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 11 | At its surface Mercury resembles the Moon : atmosphereless , devoid of volatiles , and still bearing ancient craters because of a long history of geological quiescence . |
| 12 | This is because on a long timescale the main effect of the glitch is an increase in slowdown rate , which is responsible for the slope in the later part of Fig. 1 a . |
| 13 | In the period immediately before a race it is worth eating something sweet to provide glucose and drink plenty of fluids since in a long race you can become dehydrated and can lose up to 5lb . |
| 14 | Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers . |
| 15 | The Government was unwilling to spend money on taking over the house , but for a long time courted various businessmen in the hope that they would provide a major part of the funds . |
| 16 | As it happened Namibia won the game and the tournament , but for a long time it looked as if the Zimbabweans would win , leaving the hitherto unbeaten Namibians out in the cold . |
| 17 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 18 | It said ‘ Many of the smaller hard drives available , especially old ones , use Stepper Motor actuators and it is these that really require that a low level format be carried out on them at least once a year , as after a long period of heating and cooling it is more than possible that the heads are out of alignment with the tracks . |
| 19 | There are occasions when after a long and difficult dig , and when a long time has elapsed before the recovery of the ferret and rabbit , you may discover that your ferret has scraped at the hindquarters of the rabbit for so long that it has broken the skin , drawn blood and started to eat the rabbit before it died . |
| 20 | Right now she was hearing as though from a long way off , the sounds somehow muffled . |
| 21 | No doubt there is something mildly shocking about such behaviour , academically considered , though on a long view The Structure of Complex Words may look like the most sustained compliment ever paid by a critical mind to a great dictionary . |