Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The art of consistently successful spin bowling demands a long apprenticeship . |
| 2 | I SPENT most of Friday morning having a long talk with Paul Seddon — Assistant Commissioner Seddon , who is our department 's special representative at New Scotland Yard . |
| 3 | Similarly , in England football hooliganism has a long history . |
| 4 | The Geometricks styler took a long time to heat up . |
| 5 | A common criticism levelled at the preregistration year concerns the long hours of work . |
| 6 | I duly knitted two backs , marked the shape of the front neck and also a slight ‘ dip ’ on the back section and stitched two lines with the sewing machine using a long stitch . |
| 7 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 8 | Opposition to a fixed European exchange rate has a long history within the Labour movement . |
| 9 | Folk music has a long association with classical music , why not include that ? |
| 10 | National Assistance which followed on Poor Law Relief has a long history . |
| 11 | But the intelligence fraternity has a long track record of trying to fool others and in the process usually ends up fooling itself . |
| 12 | A new song , ‘ Pussy Cat Meow ’ , celebrates them and a dream Kier had a long time ago . |
| 13 | Ideal dairy land has a long growing season , no summer drought period , a stable soil structure with good drainage to avoid excessive poaching , and an unfailing water supply . |
| 14 | Another mechanism , producing movement in the vertical plane , is indicated by Hollick 's ( 1940 ) finding that in Muscina a reduction in the amplitude of the wing-beat causes the thrust vector to intersect the long axis of the insect 's body behind the centre of gravity , so altering the cephalo-caudal couple around this centre . |
| 15 | A business approach to fashion The long and short of a day at the office |
| 16 | JC seh has a long history , almost certainly originating from a verb ( which later became reanalysed as a complementiser corresponding to " that " ) in one of the West African languages of the Kwa group . |
| 17 | The University of Chicago Press has a long list of titles for the coming spring season , in contrast with last year 's more restricted offering . |
| 18 | If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice . |
| 19 | The immigration issue left a long legacy of US Japanese hostility which surfaced in the injustices suffered by many US citizens of Japanese descent during the war with Japan , 1941–5 . |
| 20 | The UK group has a long standing commitment , made to the Hong Kong Government , to broaden the shareholder base of Hong Kong Telecom and a deal with CITIC would be consistent with that . |
| 21 | The door closed , with yellow light from the kerosene lamp making a long crack on the floor . |
| 22 | The 17.5 per cent stake represents roughly a quarter of Anglia 's market capitalisation , but David McCall , chief executive , said he believed ‘ the share price has a long way to go yet ’ . |
| 23 | The ‘ need ’ theorists ' concept of self-actualization or self fulfilment has a long history ( Jung , Adler , Goldstein , Rogers ) yet remains one of the fuzziest and least developed in psychology . |
| 24 | The concept of an independent development agency has a long tradition in Britain . |
| 25 | We recall that the confessional idea has a long history . |
| 26 | In Cyprus , it is served on Easter morning to break the long Lent fast . |
| 27 | These services are still delivered through the traditional hierarchical structures with decisions being ‘ handed down ’ and information from the ground level taking a long time to reach and influence the making of decisions and policy . |
| 28 | Friedman 's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory . |
| 29 | Hereford were outplayed in the early stages until Derek Hall sent a long ball upfield … |
| 30 | Delhi Junction had a long , curving , double-arcaded front , in redbrick Eurasian Gothic , with small crenellated towers , the only hint of decoration being supplied by blinds on all the windows . |