Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incubation has of course a long and reputable history in antiquity . |
| 2 | If you do much watering by can a long way from a tap , get a matching pair , each holding 2 gallons . |
| 3 | His delicious Pas des Légumes performed at a special performance to mark the market 's passing brought to mind the long history not only of the ‘ fruit and veg ’ , but also of Harlequin , Columbine and their colleagues of the commedia dell'arte , inhabitants for many years of the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , and the King 's Theatre , Drury Lane , where the first ballets d'action were staged . |
| 4 | The nave is simple Romanesque , the transepts in Transitional style ( 339 ) are higher , having a tall tower arcade , a shallower triforium arcade with a smaller sub-triforium above , before reaching the clerestory , giving lofty arms to the interior and suitably connecting without awkwardness the long , low nave and short high choir . |
| 5 | ‘ Reducing car tax is not really taking on board the long term interests , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Some latitude can be allowed to serious critics who write for periodicals which go to press a long time before a show is on view ; these critics will not be able to comment on how the exhibition actually looks , as their articles will have been written before the show 's installation . |
| 7 | He also put on sale a long pamphlet of his own , National Socialism Now , to justify his secession from Mosley and the new course he had chosen . |
| 8 | In the abstract the Free City arrangements might have worked , but they failed to take into account the hostilities they provoked ; failed to take into account the fears and prejudices unleashed by the sudden alteration of patterns of trade and allegiance ; and failed to take into account the long years of humiliating Polish partition , Prussian Polenpolitik and the rise of revolutionary Russia . |
| 9 | But he does offer in introduction a long and original dissertation on his subject in literature . |
| 10 | He made out a clear case for embalming all bodies and for treating them all similarly , bearing in mind the long incubation period and uncertain diagnosis in HIV infections . |