Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Pros fear the long bunker shot as much as amateurs do . |
2 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
3 | No Hiding Place Sitting containers on pallets or bricks goes a long way toward preventing them from harbouring all kinds of pests under their bottoms . |
4 | They 're added to marzipan to improve its flavour and keeping qualities , and a little oil of bitter almonds goes a long way in much confectionery . |
5 | Yes , the heads using the long reach spark plugs are better ported and valved than the earlier heads . |
6 | The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay . |
7 | Shells exploded a long way away across Beirut , down by the port . |
8 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
9 | ‘ How about you , Mark … . ’ began the top man , his eyes searching the long table for the Englishman . |
10 | Ascending its professional hierarchies takes a long time . |
11 | But for Ben Hunt ; his passion for motorbikes started a long time ago . |
12 | Stephen saw the police cars coming a long way off , three of them in a convoy coming up the white road from Hilderbridge . |
13 | Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success . |
14 | Whichever you choose , you may believe you are responding to current fashion trends , but , in fact , both styles boast a long ancestry . |
15 | The Norwegians choose a long ridge walk to go back to the camp and by the time they have arrived , Tony and I have decided to take the kayaks out on to the Ocean . |
16 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |
17 | The job losses reflect a longer term malaise in IBM 's position . |
18 | Single gas instantaneous water heaters have their place alongside a storage system ; the main problem with relying on a gas multi-point heater to provide all the house 's hot water is the low flow rate which means baths take a long time to fill . |
19 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
20 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
21 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
24 | The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days . |
25 | Northern coal miners observed a long Christmas break and from time to time proclaimed " gaudy days " on such occasions as hearing the first cuckoo . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Crafts underwent a long evolution during the Early Minoan , an incubation that prepared the way for major developments in the Middle Minoan temples and towns . |
30 | 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 . |