Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the surgical specialties the problem of allocating time to research is particularly acute given the long apprenticeship necessary to learn technical skills . |
| 2 | In early 1978 the Firefly was prepared to make the long road journey to its new home in Cambridgeshire . |
| 3 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 4 | As long as Corinth led the Peloponnesians , Athens had the best of it , though she was sufficiently alarmed to build the Long Walls , which secured communications between Athens and her harbour city of Piraeus : in future , Spartan invasions would not cut Athens off from the sea ( Thuc. i. 107 ) . |
| 5 | This was viewed as crucial to end the long period of disruption in schools and to deal with the problems of student demotivation . |
| 6 | Looking back to this era there is no doubt that our small fleet was pitifully Inadequate to control the long stretches of coastline but we did our best within the limits imposed by man power and patrol time . |
| 7 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 8 | In most he 's wearing Reactolite glasses turned black by the sun — a Roy Orbison in shorts ; Only The Lonely meets The Long Distance Runner . |
| 9 | Oxford United begin the long climb from the bottom . |
| 10 | It is difficult to assess the long term benefit of such a campaign as individual cases now coming to light clearly heard some of the publicity which was beneficial to them at the time but did not result in them making a call at that particular time . |
| 11 | But although it is not now necessary to visit the long row of sea-front cottages , Shieldaig is far too good to be bypassed . |
| 12 | They allow the marginalisation of identifiable groups , who are the product of a surplus population suffering the enforced unemployment necessary to stabilise the long recessions of capitalism . |
| 13 | And in doing so she has proved herself a mightier force than the Palace propaganda machine , which suggested that she might not attend because she was too old and frail to make the long journey to Crathie Church . |