Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In retrospect , the ending at this point of the long preponderance of Western Europe ( that is to say , Italy , France , southern Germany , Belgium and Spain ) — a preponderance common to the pre-conciliar Church , the Council and even the pontificate of Paul VI — in the affairs of Catholicism and its replacement by a far wider range of geographical influences , may appear as far more significant than any shift from the mildly liberal to the neo-conservative . |
| 5 | We squelched through the oozy wet mud of the long sea wall at Titchwell Marsh . |
| 6 | The social segregation of the long term unemployed in Hartlepool |
| 7 | The mid 70s soccer hooligan of fact and fable would most likely have some approximation of the long back and sides , short top & fringe . |
| 8 | The social prerequisite of the long trend in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries towards lower crime and disorder , and greater police acceptance , was the historical process of working-class incorporation . |
| 9 | In a satire of 1710 , Charles Davenant had his character of a Court Whig say to a country squire : " Let us eat out all your Lands and Tenements with Taxes of our devising ; let us have the sole Management of a long protracted War , and gather our wonted Fruits from it " . |
| 10 | Tamayo 's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art . |
| 11 | But there was no mistaking the soft fragility of the body beneath his , or the fragrant silkiness of the long tresses brushing across his throat as she tried to turn her head . |
| 12 | A time capsule containing the personal effects of a long dead civilisation : the pince-nez of an extinct dowager , a tarnished cigarette case , two withered clasp hand-bags , indeterminate items of jewellery , and the desiccated remains of insects . |
| 13 | A consistent orientation of the long axis towards 40–60 degrees east was found . |
| 14 | It irked John himself , the easy carousing of the long , sprawling festival , the noisy pastimes of the court , the King 's sudden tempers . |
| 15 | The French boy laughed loudly and followed the pholy up the log staircase into the gloomy interior of the long hut . |
| 16 | But just as the mere thought of the long run is liable to blight any work on which one is engaged , so the thought of a tone distinct from though inseparable from the shit is guaranteed to bring even the most promising project to a halt . |
| 17 | That outcome of the long process of evolution which will enable them to govern the uses of their own physical mechanisms . |
| 18 | Henry II spent a large part of a long career campaigning in France ; but his wars added very little to what he had gained by marriage . |
| 19 | Europe disappeared from the political imagination for the duration , not merely during the last month of the campaign , but during a large part of the long and tedious pre-campaign . |
| 20 | Ten Americans and one Englishman sat on either side of a long gleaming wooden table . |
| 21 | And in further contrast , miles from anywhere , the odd experience of driving through the night with flames licking through the forest on either side of the long deserted road . |
| 22 | Open lips which quickly change to the more elongated shape of the long vowel IE may be seen in two different forms . |
| 23 | This was a fascinating story of a long family tradition of service on the GWR , with plenty of amusing stories and excellent photographs . |
| 24 | These are the bare bones of a long and distinguished scientific career . |
| 25 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 26 | In America , where there was a comparative absence of a long term aristocracy , these social hierarchies took on a particularly strong pecuniary emphasis . |
| 27 | The four weeks preceding Christmas 1984 saw Britain locked in the desperate late stages of a long , cold and bitter conflict . |
| 28 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
| 29 | However , she realised the wisdom of his words , but hunger and the sound of the lunch bell caused her to discard all thoughts of a long soak , and instead of running a bath she stood beneath the soothing waters of a hot shower . |
| 30 | He had a good view of the long shadowy main corridor . |