Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] long [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Smith and David Brand from HMS United got inshore on their first night 's recce to find a long and uncharted sandbank off the south coast port of Gela , where the Rangers would land that summer . |
| 2 | Biological research has a long and distinguished tradition in the University and the excellence of research within the Division is recognised nationally and internationally . |
| 3 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 4 | Schemes for arranging Perpetual Peace had a long and depressingly futile history . |
| 5 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 6 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 7 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 8 | His great claim to fame is that he was the first Englishman to build a long and lucrative career out of the dissemination of public news . |
| 9 | Regaining this knowledge involved a long and hazardous series of amphibious raids in which the clandestine activities of SOE and the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , as well as the commandos , became involved . |
| 10 | Like other key notions in psychoanalysis , the sense of desire as a quest for an always impossible self-completion in or through the other has a long though oft en unrecognized history . |
| 11 | Also the plaintiff 's doctor may be present if he has some active part to play , for example to explain a long and complicated medical history , his own diagnosis or to bring his own evidence up to date . |
| 12 | It remains the key to our understanding of the natural world and it enables us to recognise that life has a long and continuous history during which organisms , both plant and animal , have changed , generation by generation , as they colonised all parts of the world . |
| 13 | A business approach to fashion The long and short of a day at the office |
| 14 | The countryman takes a great interest in the weather : he has to because his living is bound up with it ; and he observes it as closely as a scientist watching a long and intricate experiment . |
| 15 | The headmistress made a long and patently truthful speech about how they would miss Stephanie , and a brief speech about Frederica 's outstanding good fortune . |
| 16 | The School has a long and successful tradition in team games and competitions . |
| 17 | The Training scheme has a long and proud history . |
| 18 | Basically white American rural music descended from British and Irish folk traditions , country has a long and much cherished lineage . |
| 19 | Although the upper part of Sticil Face involves a long and committing traverse above the central slabs , the lower section , following their open , left-bounding corner , would pose no real problems in retreat . |
| 20 | Lucca has a long and brave history and its rigid grid of streets still betray its Roman origins . |
| 21 | The use of sex crime in the media as a source of titillation has a long and inglorious past which has emerged spectacularly again in the Thatcher years . |
| 22 | The reason can perhaps be found in the fact that company law as an academic discipline boasts no long and distinguished pedigree . |