Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straight and narrow Part one of David Stevens ' new series sets out the plans for his transformation of a long , narrow garden . |
| 2 | grant him every advantage which we can conceive a white to possess over the native ; concede that in the struggle for existence his chance of a long life will be much superior to that of the native chiefs ; yet from all these admissions , there does not follow the conclusion that , after a limited or unlimited number of generations , the inhabitants of the island will be white . |
| 3 | His sense of the long , mixed past of his own family , and the need to rebel against the purpose — if not the pattern — of his upbringing , left him neither passionately involved in everyday things , nor yet coldly indifferent to the other people . |
| 4 | Two examples , one from Silandra 's ‘ Vieni , vieni ’ in Orontea , the other from Arsete 's ‘ Non scherzi con Amor ’ in Act I of his Florentine court opera , La Dori ( 1663 ) : show ( i ) his construction of a long descending phrase pivoting on a descending scale and given cohesion by a motivic sequence ( the latter already a well-known Venetian device ) , ( ii ) his ability to write a sheer catchy tune . |
| 5 | Even if the worst happens and you lose your job , your lover , your hair , your hope of a long life , you 're only defeated if you let yourself be . |