Example sentences of "[adj] with a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He followed this with a long letter two months later , in which he tried to convince Pound of his achievement and to sympathize with the despair and anxiety which now assailed him . |
| 2 | It is clear that such a strategy would produce an incorrect parsing when a short word followed by a long word is homophonous with a long word followed by a short word . |
| 3 | Protosuchus — about 1.5 metres long with a long head and powerful teeth — was the earliest crocodile . |
| 4 | They are extremely strange looking fish that are about 8″ long with a long beak like protrusion of about 4″ long and they are black in colour . |
| 5 | Almost to a man and woman they are , as it happens , extremely sophisticated individuals , many with a long experience of political activity outside Parliament and several with long-held and well-thought-out anxieties about the course which events were taking in Europe . |
| 6 | Hofstede 's recent book proposes that the Far East Manager is much more concerned with a long time horizon for the team than is the European or American manager . |
| 7 | Not all of those with a long standing illness report that it restricts their activity . |
| 8 | Robert , a man in his late twenties with a long history of occult involvement , grew up in what he now knows to be one of the most haunted farmhouses in Lancashire on the Fylde coast . |
| 9 | Check for level with a long board and builder 's level |
| 10 | A cropped and fitted jacket nips in to show off a neat waist and looks trim with a long line skirt . |
| 11 | Today at Cirencester magistrates court , John Gore , bearded with a long ponytail , was committed for trial at Crown court . |
| 12 | Only the experienced with a long Tiller record were considered . |