Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Daily Telegraph published a long article from me on the subject on its editorial page . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As Argentina deployed gunboats , the Foreign Office entered a long silence over South Georgia . |
| 8 | The phrase reached its nadir when a British politician threatened a long hot legislative summer ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The tradition of writing ‘ effusions ’ in blank verse had a long history in the eighteenth century , culminating in The Task by William Cowper . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He looked at the stiff unbending features of the recruiter for a moment : the dark hollows around his eyes and his dry , parchment-like skin betrayed a long addiction to opium , and Duclos guessed that hid irritability stemmed for this . |
| 13 | Schemes for arranging Perpetual Peace had a long and depressingly futile history . |
| 14 | The long room contained a long silence . |
| 15 | Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 and wrote The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405 ; the battle for women 's right to equal education took a long time to win . |
| 16 | Clarkson 's account of his entry into his antislavery role stressed the long period of crisis in which he indecisively debated with himself and James Ramsay what to do . |
| 17 | The Black Death began the long process of decline for many , but it rarely wiped out an entire village at a single blow . |
| 18 | When Zeppelin told PHIL KING their next game was on ice , the rotund reviewer expected a long delay ! |
| 19 | She swallowed hard and began , ‘ Well , the Big Bang happened a long time ago . |
| 20 | Her sleepless , restless night seemed a long way off . |
| 21 | The secret operation followed a long period gathering information on criminals in the town . |
| 22 | However , as a result of a case in which a determined executive fought a long battle through the courts , the position now appears to be more complicated than was once thought . |
| 23 | The ministerial position went a long way towards meeting the US criteria , but the British side had worries as well . |
| 24 | The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later . |
| 25 | The political police in the Soviet Union had a long history stretching back to tsarist times . |
| 26 | Their spectacular entrance over , the two girls stripped naked , and the athletic young man produced a long whip . |
| 27 | Haytons conviction for causing death by reckless driving followed a long string of motoring offences . |
| 28 | The concessions Edward made on matters such as purveyance and unparliamentary taxation went a long way towards meeting the grievances of the commons , and the king was able to mobilize the resources he required for war . |
| 29 | In 1665 a contested by-election began a long parliamentary career , Lowther representing Cumberland thereafter in every Parliament until illness compelled his retirement in 1699 . |