Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such flows approach asymptotically to the self-preserving form , although often very slowly ; for reasons to be seen in Section 21.4 , turbulent flows have a long ‘ memory ’ of upstream conditions . |
| 2 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 3 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 4 | Marine sponges have a long fossil record from the Cambrian onwards , and at many localities they are abundant enough to be important rock formers . |
| 5 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 6 | The agronomists ’ reports on the spring-sowing campaign reveal a long list of mainly unfulfilled bureaucratic resolutions passed down from Moscow . |
| 7 | Hard disks last a long time but they do n't last for ever . |
| 8 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
| 9 | Although most nomadic tribes have a long history of weaving rugs specifically for trade , a number of items coming onto the western market may well have been made originally for personal use . |
| 10 | The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change . |
| 11 | The Tyneside star , who has recovered from a groin injury , admitted afterwards : ‘ The Olympic Games seem a long way away . |
| 12 | Such associations of sexual deviance and political threat have a long history sedimented into our language and culture . |
| 13 | PRE-FORMED SHAPE Use a long spirit level on and around the pool to mark an outline of the outer edge on the ground , cutting through any turf with a knife |
| 14 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 15 | A number of higher clergy in Ulster and many of its lay intellectuals stand a long way off from protestant — loyalist politics and are in fact politically dissociated from them . |
| 16 | But he knows that new formats take a long time to catch on with the public : ‘ We have n't got expectations of hundreds of thousands of units . |
| 17 | The repressor antiparallel β -ribbons occupy the major groove of the DNA , whereas the A helices ( see Fig. 2 for helix labelling ) of adjacent dimers form a long , antiparallel protein-protein contact above the minor groove in the centre of the diagram . |
| 18 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |