Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dock company in due course took a long lease of the area in question from the Secretary of State for Defence , although the ports authority insisted that the necessary planning consent be obtained before the lease was signed . |
| 2 | Here a narrow gully gave a long , powdery glissade almost to the shores of the frozen lock , which gave an easy highway to within five minutes of our night 's accommodation . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the retired admiral spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 4 | A little careful planning goes a long way . |
| 5 | The Daily Telegraph carried a long story without mentioning my name , since Michael Berry was well disposed to me and had no wish to cause me embarrassment . |
| 6 | The Daily Telegraph published a long article from me on the subject on its editorial page . |
| 7 | What is of particular interest is that direct investment overseas by such enterprises has become increasingly important over the post war years ( as opposed to portfolio investment , of which British capital has a long tradition ) , and that this phenomenon is especially important for the British economy . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 9 | Perhaps a landscape is too remote or unsettled weather makes a long painting session impossible . |
| 10 | As Argentina deployed gunboats , the Foreign Office entered a long silence over South Georgia . |
| 11 | The phrase reached its nadir when a British politician threatened a long hot legislative summer ! |
| 12 | It took a moment to convince herself that the tall , dark , imposing figure leaving the long , opulent vehicle really was Luke . |
| 13 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 14 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
| 15 | The assertion that law is unsuitable or unable to deal with family and personal behaviour has a long history . |
| 16 | Terry used his limited Arabic to have a long conversation with another visitor who suggested that an American would go home soon with the Irishman and then , after a little while , during which our governments were expected to ‘ make the next step ’ , another American with a Briton and so on . |
| 17 | Ca n't you see a reincarnated Grace lashing the Long Room with scorn and fury on hearing the vapid 68 words that purported to explain this summer 's vilest scandal . |
| 18 | The earlier failure of East Suffolk organising-tutor scheme cast a long shadow over the discussion between Jacques and martin Wilson , the new Secretary of Education . |
| 19 | In Tanzania , for example , the Dodoma section of the semi-arid central region has a long history of both accelerated soil erosion and attempts at conservation . |
| 20 | JOHN BARNES last night faced up to the fact that he must make speedy progress to avoid a long spell in the international wilderness . |
| 21 | A little amiability goes a long way , it would seem , and many of those present felt that Reebok was the unluckiest loser of the night in this category . |
| 22 | There seems to be a lot of blood , but , you know , a little blood goes a long way . |
| 23 | The work of the pre-electric era was the work of preservation : drying and smoking meat , making cheese and hard bread to survive a long winter huddled in a chalet above the animals . |
| 24 | The agronomists ’ reports on the spring-sowing campaign reveal a long list of mainly unfulfilled bureaucratic resolutions passed down from Moscow . |
| 25 | The tradition of writing ‘ effusions ’ in blank verse had a long history in the eighteenth century , culminating in The Task by William Cowper . |
| 26 | Next home was David Lodge in 27 mins. 23 which was a promising effort following a long lay-off due to illness . |
| 27 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 28 | Researchers investigating the causes of psychological depression spent a long time carefully documenting how severe , traumatizing events that happen to people , such as bereavement or job loss , can induce it . |
| 29 | Then the leading comrade makes a long speech ( with pauses for interpretation ) full of statistics about how before liberation the commune used to only produce so many jin per mu ( jin being a measure of weight/capacity , and mu being a measure of land ) and how the commune now produces about 15 times that amount . |
| 30 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |