Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long [noun sg] [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of a long project there may be a difficult situation if functional managers in the meantime have staffed their departments with new members . |
| 2 | Behind the long counter there were hams hanging , the smell of them adding to the already aromatic air of the place . |
| 3 | For a long time there was no sound inside , then the door opened . |
| 4 | For a long time there was a tradition that the mill took its name from a period in 1629 , when The Crown had 610 guns cast for The States General of Holland . |
| 5 | For a long time there has been a choice , but very few seem to have realised it . |
| 6 | For a long time there had been no one else for him because he refused to compromise . |
| 7 | For a long time there were few specialized tradesmen : most farm workers made their own tools and carried out their own running repairs , until the spread of cheaply manufactured iron began to displace wood , and more sophisticated craftsmanship was called for . |
| 8 | It seems an obvious assumption that these relatively simple organisms appeared very early in the history of life , but for a long time there was no proof that they actually did so . |
| 9 | A commonly held example of such an error comes not from neuroscience but from genetics , where for a long time there was a rather simple-minded assumption that the physiology and behaviour of an organism ( its phenotype ) could be arbitrarily divided into two components , one given by the genes , the other by the environment . |
| 10 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |
| 11 | For a long time there was silence . |
| 12 | Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth . |
| 13 | For a long moment there was silence between them as she stared unseeingly down at her own hand caught in his surprisingly tender grasp . |
| 14 | For a long moment there was silence as they converged upon the steps of the hall , until David got his voice again . |
| 15 | In the long term there may even be Nicholson 's pubs appearing in the business centres of other cities . |
| 16 | On the question of aggression by the North , there can be no doubt whatever that their ultimate object is to overrun the South ; and I think in the long term there is no doubt that they will do so , in which case , as you so aptly remark , the Americans will have made a rather handsome contribution of equipment to the military strength of Asiatic Communism . |
| 17 | In the long term there must be improvement as Russia industrializes , but in the short term erm presumably we see the development of , of a , of a sort of Stalinist totalitarianism precisely because the screws are really being turned on people as much work is being got out of them as possible in order to accumulate capital and to build up basic industries and , and , and to divert , I mean not just into heavy industries , but to divert er resources into arms production as well . |
| 18 | In the long term there would be a centralised body for monetary policy , supervised by the European Parliament , though in the short term members should simply try to limit the fluctuations between their currencies . |
| 19 | This paper refers to lorries being allowed into the dock area overnight and ‘ in the long term there could be 24 hour operation . ’ |
| 20 | She says in the longer term there are substantial benefits from returning organic matter to the soil . |
| 21 | Over the long term there has been an ‘ age-migration ’ of the accident statistics , whereby the number of under-15s killed per annum has fallen by 61 per cent from 1927–82 compared to an 80 per cent increase for the 15–24 year old group . |
| 22 | It is difficult to know how far they were a significant deterrent to claiming relief , but over the long term there is little to suggest that any parish maintained the lowering of its poor rate which sometimes accompanied the initial operation of a workhouse . |
| 23 | On the Long Drive there had been a whole truck for them . |