Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A variety of reasons were proffered for the long delay in setting the seal on a deal but drummer Gary Murdoch maintains that ‘ we 've had a string of managers who did n't really know their job ’ . |
| 2 | He and his co-pilot settled down in the darkness for the long flight in the cramped cockpit . |
| 3 | This was suspended during the Long Parliament in the middle of the seventeenth century but was restored by the Clergy Act 1661 . |
| 4 | Consequently , although pressure forces are important in collimating gas onto closed orbits , they are unimportant during the long periods in which the gas drifts from one closed orbit to the next . |
| 5 | This is often impossible to obtain , however , as many of the torture techniques leave few visible injuries , or only superficial injuries which disappear during the long period in police custody . |
| 6 | The document has reappeared after a long sleep in California , and is estimated at £150,000 . |
| 7 | The new building was opened with great fanfare in January 1895 , and the grateful deaf members appointed William Agnew a director , a position he retained until his death after a long illness in 1914 . |
| 8 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |
| 9 | After a long while in which she heard nothing but the rasp of charcoal on canvas and the faint distant booming of the sea , he said , ‘ Talk if you want to . |
| 10 | This is noticeable after a long soak in the bath ; the pads of your fingertips will take on a wrinkled appearance . |
| 11 | A friend of mine found this out when he brought a video back with him after a long weekend in Amsterdam . |
| 12 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |
| 13 | After a long slog in the 1980s to reach the top flight of the Championship , last season 's relegation was nothing short of disastrous for the club and Stedman feels that it is an indictment of Farnham that promising young players in the area , whom the town club would hope to recruit , are instead going to Guildford , attracted by division one status . |
| 14 | On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry . |
| 15 | We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar . |
| 16 | Now near retirement after a long career in product development , Mr Dulude can presumably act without fear or favour . |
| 17 | After a long career in public service , Monnet had been appointed as head of the French Planning Commission . |
| 18 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 19 | JE : Though this role was written for you , in a sense , did you find it difficult having to sing Britten after a long career in the standard repertoire ? |
| 20 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |
| 21 | It was as if our vision was a piece of elastic which was being stretched for the first time after a long period in a drawer . |
| 22 | After a long game in the kitchen which ended in a draw , they went upstairs and made love . |
| 23 | Shortly after the meeting of the Long Parliament in 1640 Chidley published her first tract , The Justification of the Independent Churches of Christ ( 1641 ) , a refutation of the arguments of Thomas Edwards [ q.v. ] for hierarchical , centralized church government , and a biblical defence of congregational and wifely autonomy . |
| 24 | At the time of writing , the first batch of prosecutions had collapsed in the magistrates ' court , on account of the long delay in launching the prosecutions against those involved . |
| 25 | Whatever the Admiralty 's feelings on the matter , the determination of the shipwrights to cling to their perquisite must be viewed in the context of the long delay in paying wages . |
| 26 | The frustrations of the long struggle in Korea , combined with McCarthy 's campaign , suggested that America 's problems resulted from a " softness on communism " that pervaded the Truman administration . |
| 27 | Born in the coastal province of Fujian in 1904 , Chen began serving Mao in Yenan , the remote village in northwest China where the Red Army took refuge and regained its strength at the end of the Long March in 1937 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | These evolving patterns of uneven development are not simply reflections or outcomes of the long waves in the national economy . |
| 30 | There was no incentive to move , for the bus queues were twice as long as usual ; the rush-hour had started , and the prospect of the long wait in the rain did not appeal . |