Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is much exercised about a long letter which arrived today , which she did not show me , but smiled over , and caught up and folded away . |
| 2 | In particular , we have shown examples where a tax on capital income may be shifted completely , and have demonstrated that in less extreme cases the effective redistribution may be very much reduced in the long run as a result of adjustments in the capital stock . |
| 3 | However , the press in the other European member states rightly concentrated on the long list of measures that were agreed and signed in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 4 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 5 | And this makes them better suited to the longer distances . ’ |
| 6 | Hardy was my poetical father and if I seldom read him now , it is , perhaps because our relationship is so assured as no longer to need being made conscious . |
| 7 | The students all studied through a long distance learning scheme with four tutors based in different parts of Britain . |
| 8 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 9 | I think that there is much to be said for statutes to be preceded by some statement of what Parliament is seeking to achieve in rather longer form than is normally provided by the long title , in the form of perhaps a return to the days of the preamble containing recitals — a form adopted in European Community legislation . |
| 10 | A Circular on this subject ( to appear in July 1965 as 10/65 , probably the best known of a long series of Ministry and Department of Education and Science circulars ) was already in draft , but Tony Crosland was anxious to improve it . |
| 11 | Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again . |
| 12 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 13 | The unlikely deal was probably finally swung by the long friendship between Ferguson and Wilkinson , who work closely together in the League Managers ' Association . |
| 14 | Of course , as has been shown , neither English nor humane education were simply " there " , but had been laboriously constructed over a long period . |
| 15 | It was still dominated by the long nose and wide mouth , also by eyes of an intense pale blue , which always seemed to focus sharply and penetratingly on whoever he was talking to . |
| 16 | Paolucci claims ( in Beccaria 1963 , p. ix ) that Dei Delitti e delle Pene has had ‘ more practical effect than any other treatise ever written in the long campaign against barbarism in criminal law and procedure ’ . |
| 17 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
| 18 | Louise Jermy 's health was permanently impaired by the long hours she spent helping her mother mangle clothes , and Kathleen Woodward recalled her mother 's bitter complaints about washing : ‘ Wash wash wash ; it 's like washing your guts away . |
| 19 | It is extremely light , low cut , very wide fitting — the widest I 've ever found for a long time — and together with an EVA insert into the sole unit , gave me very comfortable walking . |
| 20 | The major disadvantage of this form of dictatorial power balance occurs with the death of the chief ; which is usually followed by a long , painful period of restructuring whereby the balance is restored . |
| 21 | Beinn Damh , identified by a conspicuous horseshoe of scree high on its south side , is usually climbed by the long ridge coming up from Loch Torridon . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the army , despite the FMLN 's truce offer of Sept. 14 , was still engaged in a long push against guerrilla strongholds , and a major FMLN counter-offensive was not ruled out . |
| 23 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 24 | The stratigraphic record indicates , however , that eustatic changes have also occurred during the long equable periods when the available evidence suggests that polar ice was absent . |
| 25 | Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair . |
| 26 | Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair . |
| 27 | Dissociation from the isolated sites 1 and 5 is also very slow ; the DNase I footprints are only slightly reduced at the longest time point ( 30 minutes ) . |
| 28 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
| 29 | We 've both known for a long time how we feel about each other and all the reasons why nothing can ever come of it . |
| 30 | This served with 28 Squadron under 5 Wing and was later stored for a long time at 15 Air Depot at Snake Valley , adjacent to Swartkop before going to serve with the MEFS at Bloemspruit . |