Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a shrug of her shoulders , Charlotte rose and accompanied Ursula out through the kitchen and into the garden , where a calm and picturesque evening was spreading long shadows and rectangles of gold across the lawn . |
| 2 | The ramifications explain why large organisations are thinking long and hard about the introduction of any new technology into the office . |
| 3 | , A lack of qualified engineers is causing long delays to mount up in the programme of strengthening road bridges , which needs to be carried out ahead of the introduction of 40-tonne lorries , scheduled for 1998 . |
| 4 | There are different ways of doing this : one way is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of two vowel phonemes . |
| 5 | One solution is to have long bridles , so reducing the effect and in a way de-sensitising the bridle changes . |
| 6 | Their exclusion from the normal commerce of local society was perpetuated long beyond the time when leprosy had been controlled ; indeed , it was not until the nineteenth century that some Cagots finally became authentic citizens . |