Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still seemed so real , so close that she could feel his disapproval , and somehow she felt he was using will-power from a long way off . |
| 2 | Most sufferers do n't realise their chiggers have departed because the eschars remain itchy for a long time afterwards . |
| 3 | SET IN the dipping wooded hills of Lambton Park , through which the wide and tidal Wear cuts a deep valley , this grandest of early Georgian houses looks south down a long wide avenue , smothered solid with daffodils in the spring . |
| 4 | But so long as the company 's objective is maximum profits , a concern with the welfare of third parties is necessarily an instrumental one : it is a means of protecting profitability in the long term . |
| 5 | The anarchist , or more accurately anarcho-syndicalist , CNT ( National Confederation of Labour ) had been founded in 1910–11 ; its main bastions were Catalonia , where socialist strength in the working class was virtually non-existent ; Andalusia , where anarchism drew vigour from a long tradition of rural insurrectionism and millenarianism ; Zaragoza ; and parts of Asturias , Valencia and Galicia . |
| 6 | He always found room for a long line of sweet peas ; it gave him immense pleasure to pick an armful of these , take them home , present them to Mum and fill the house with their glorious scent . |
| 7 | The British banks have attracted criticism for a long time over their failure to provide long-term finance to industry , and to develop lasting relationships with industrial customers . |
| 8 | By paying now rather than waiting , shall I be saving money in the long run ? |
| 9 | It is not something which presents too much of a problem , but it may be causing damage in the long term . |
| 10 | But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck . |
| 11 | In a poll , published last week , asking voters to rank in order of priority the issues they most wanted discussed during the election campaign , unemployment came top by a long way , followed by worries about the funding of the badly-indebted State pension and social security fund , and then education and training . |
| 12 | Tomorrow the anti hunt campaigners can smell victory after a long battle . |
| 13 | Unix System Labs is rumoured to be sitting on top of a major geopolitical deal that will hand USL its next joint venture and put Destiny on the long march to widespread government-backed adoption . |
| 14 | Though , on the face of it , the effects that cause pleasure in the short term are those that cause addiction in the long term , there is a lot of variability in the system that might be exploited . |
| 15 | That might seem like a long time , but the issues have clearly been complex , and have been progressed as quickly as possible not least through vigourous prodding by the D O E , keen to see approval of a long term development strategy for Greater York and more importantly , a statutory definition of the York gre greenbelt . |
| 16 | Aids dementia is more common in those who have had AIDS for a long time , and in some instances the dementia is probably due to other organisms attacking the brain . |
| 17 | From Rosthwaite walk southwest into the Stonethwaite valley past the village of Stonethwaite ( 1.25 miles ) , turning south into the long wild empty valley of Langstrath . |
| 18 | I do n't mind saveloy , I have n't had saveloy for a long while . |
| 19 | May I begin by paying tribute to the long and distinguished career of the late Baroness Hart of South Lanark ? |
| 20 | The three figures were now almost at the road and out in the open when Taff opened fire with a long burst . |
| 21 | A beach of bleached stones gleamed bonewhite against the long stretch of grassy bank which rolled up to the pastures lining the valley floor . |
| 22 | For many , West Dorset 's main attraction is the coastline which forms part of the long distance South West Way walk starting from Minehead in Somerset and finishing at Studland in Dorset . |
| 23 | A wall that has been damp will often contain moisture for a long time after the cause has been remedied , so it is better to allow the walls to dry out naturally , although anti-damp paint could be used to allow the room to be decorated before the wall has dried out . |
| 24 | I merely wish to draw attention to the long chain of wrongly dated groups of pottery , each in turn dependent on the other , all the result of the false assumption that a few coins were contemporary with this deposit , whereas they were either residual or still in circulation , and in neither case have a relevance in establishing a terminus post quem . |
| 25 | Is not it clear that the excellent record of business investment in the United Kingdom reflects the fact that business men recognise the Government 's commitment to containing inflation in the long term ? |
| 26 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 27 | The other , even more revealing letter , was written early in 1945 , after Walter had spent part of a long leave with Viola and the children ( now alone , with divorce a matter of months away ) in their London flat . |
| 28 | I reach over the palletwood fence and pour water from the long spout into his half-empty ice cream tub , then straighten and stare at the huge , inert body , my mind searching for an excuse to proceed beyond the shed . |
| 29 | The government was credited with introducing measures which would have impact in the long term . |
| 30 | That was a display of influence , not that the Major needed information on the long arm of KGB . |