Example sentences of "[prep] long [noun] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lesser effect ( 7/5 mm Hg ) of longer duration was seen with oral therapy . |
| 2 | Although evolution decrees that species of plant and animal which survive for long periods are shaped to the advantages determined by natural selection , progress over time to larger size might be a law of nature independent of environmental factors . |
| 3 | Many of their colleagues are off work sick for long periods being treated for nervous disorders . |
| 4 | In this way , when the number of allowable strings or phrases is high , a few most likely can be stored — it was found that if all allowable phrases with long sequences were stored , there was insufficient memory on the computer ! |
| 5 | We could not hear its lovely song for a vociferous skylark ( with long tails was trilling directly overhead . |
| 6 | Again , as for /Ε/,; patterns of lengthening and diphthongization are present , with long vowels being associated mainly with back realizations and with the higher front realizations before voiced velars ( see table 4.2 ) . |
| 7 | A few birds with long beaks were poking around by the water : how come they stay so clean when they 're always delving in the mud ? |
| 8 | The often awkward transition from playing covers to playing original material went without a hitch , and before long REM were providing backing on their first album . |
| 9 | The house in Long Island was referred to as Xanadu in the specialized trade that supplied her . |
| 10 | Grade differences in long absences were reduced by 11% for men and by 36% for women after adjustment . |
| 11 | The headlong rush by the brewers to switch tenants to long leases is creating misery and hardship . |
| 12 | If there are several competing paths , only those paths that can be matched to long words are continued , and a short word will only be retrieved from the buffer if none of the possible paths can be matched to a long word . |
| 13 | Two companies at Long Beach were hired to do the actual airframe modifications . |
| 14 | At first sight it is a pretty enough spectacle to see a matchbox made ; one motion of the hands bends into shape the notched frame of the case , another surrounds it with the ready-pasted strip of painted wrapper , which , by long practice is fitted instinctively without a wrinkle , then the sandpaper or phosphorous paper , pasted ready beforehand , is applied and pressed on so that it sticks fast . |