Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 2 | Debenham & Freebody 's of Wigmore Street did so in 1920 , but not for tardy payment of a long outstanding account but for an order which the customer denied had ever been given . |
| 3 | He smiled almost gently , but there was nothing gentle about the glitter in his dark eyes as they ran over her from the smooth shining coil of her silver-blonde hair to the long slender legs encased in elegant sheer navy stockings . |
| 4 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 5 | But agile he is n't ; witness this rather half-hearted attempt at the long jump . |
| 6 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 7 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 8 | He was a striking figure with a long , dour face , the head completely shaven , his thin body clothed from head to toe in a black gown and cloak . |
| 9 | Love and pride shone from her enormous black eyes as , ever tender , she lifted her grandson and held him against her grubby sweater for a long moment before returning him to his crib . |
| 10 | Apart front the ties of London , he liked and used Chequers a lot , and had established the almost unfailing rhythm of a long late summer-holiday at Aix-les-Bains in the French Alps . |
| 11 | Much is hidden in the mists of the early Triassic , which is probably the least-known episode in the long history of Phanerozoic time . |
| 12 | Angling was controlled by a private club with a long waiting list . |
| 13 | Along each side of the long window hung a heavy brocade curtain , the colour having long since disappeared , but which still retained an air of quality . |
| 14 | But Paul 's ‘ solution ’ to the problem was a typically ‘ diplomatic ’ one that appears to achieve something valuable but may satisfy neither side in the long run . |
| 15 | She was a pretty girl , with expressive dark grey eyes , and dark brown hair in a long bob . |
| 16 | Instead that sense has to be nurtured by more direct experience over a long period of time . |
| 17 | But among those with special achievements to their credit were the branches at Knebworth ( Hertfordshire ) , Kelvedon , Manningtree and Wivenhoe ( Essex ) , all of which published village histories during 1953–54 ; at Hemel Hempstead which duplicated and sold Welfare and the State , the log-book of weekly discussions in a Long Terminal on ‘ Economic and Social Problems ’ held in 1956–57 ; at Linton ( Cambridgeshire ) which followed up a music course by helping to launch the Linton Music Festival in July 1957 , destined to become an annual event ; and at Colchester where a Tutorial on archaeology from 1955 to 1958 led to the formation of the Colchester Archaeological Group . |
| 18 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 19 | First , it needs to be made clear that high returns now must be distinguished from high returns in the long run . |
| 20 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
| 21 | If the superfast Yamaha proves reliable and can withstand the constant high revving on the long straights between Portstewart and Coleraine , and Coleraine and Portrush , it should be easy for Mitchell . |
| 22 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 23 | free admission to the Long Room ( if you join the Friends on your visit to the Library , your admission charge will be refunded ) |
| 24 | If the air force chiefs could guarantee a quick kill and low casualties , both president and Pentagon could avoid the ‘ Vietnam nightmare ’ , losing public support in a long drawn-out struggle far from home . |
| 25 | For example , a proprietor of a garage may be restricted as to the amount of work that can be taken on due to a lack of skilled motor mechanics ; however , the proprietor can overcome this constraint in the long term by training non-skilled labour to perform the task . |
| 26 | The challenge , a 5km run , a 30km cycle ride and then back on 2 legs for the long run home . |
| 27 | Pechorin is a cold-hearted , stylish fatalist , experimentalist , existentialist and divided man , a traveller , gambler , heart-breaker and forgetter of old friends , who loves to ride ‘ a spirited horse through the long grass against a desert wind ’ . |
| 28 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 29 | It seemed just another episode in the long war of the books between metropolitan , and in this last case global , sophistication and a rooted academic , even provincial , culture . |
| 30 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |