Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for the long undercarriage is n't to provide adequate prop clearance as you might expect . |
| 2 | In Britain the apparently smooth growth during the long boom was marked by dramatic events that , at the time , seemed to be crises : for example , the 1957 credit squeeze and record interest rate jump , the sterling crisis and cuts in government spending plans in 1966 , and the devaluation of 1967 . |
| 3 | That said , the footswitch on the other end of the long cable is a very sturdy metal-cased affar with three switches , each one with its own status LED . |
| 4 | While the English army remained preoccupied during the early 1650s with these military campaigns against the Irish and Scots , the Rump of the Long Parliament was able to pursue a foreign policy motivated primarily by commercial considerations , leading England into a naval war with her principal trading rival , Protestant Holland . |
| 5 | At the other end of the long façade was a huge clock-tower , and no fewer than six lesser domes finished the corner and entrance elements of the station . |
| 6 | But just as the mere thought of the long run is liable to blight any work on which one is engaged , so the thought of a tone distinct from though inseparable from the shit is guaranteed to bring even the most promising project to a halt . |
| 7 | If the reader was nevertheless left with the feeling that music counted for most , it was partly because the bulk of the long treatise was in fact about music and nothing else . |
| 8 | Presumably under Babylonian influence , the life-span of time of the long dominion was set at 12,000 years , the number twelve corresponding to the twelve signs of the zodiac . |
| 9 | The modern equivalent of the long war is the burden of the armaments race and the un-English bureaucracy , a legacy of two world wars , that still stifles the country despite a decade of Mrs Thatcher 's administration . |
| 10 | Close under the grey buttresses of the wall one of the long stones was propped on its side , the grave beside it laid open to the frosty sky . |
| 11 | The wage explosions were certainly a product of overaccumulation in a general sense : more or less full , and rapidly expanding , employment during much of the long boom was a necessary backdrop . |
| 12 | R. W. Francis , butcher of Church St. , Bishop 's Castle , used to buy whinberries in bulk from local pickers , and Plowden Station at the foot of the Long Mynd was an ideal pick up point for these pickers . |
| 13 | One of the longest pieces is taken from The Thirties , Malcolm Muggeridge 's over-rated chronicle , short on detail , long on a relentlessly ironical sense of superiority . |
| 14 | A NEW book marking the silver jubilee of a long school is to be launched in the city next week . |
| 15 | You know , because of cut-backs , and that 's probably the reason why , it 's a hell of a long delay is n't it , three or four months or so . |
| 16 | The pressure of a long queue was the most frequent cause for stress mentioned in the West Midlands survey of volunteers . |
| 17 | The expenses and toils of a long war are but too just an excuse that the thought of a new library were not part of the public cares . |
| 18 | Sukarno 's role throughout the long crisis was to reassure his bewildered countrymen , especially all those outside Java apparently abandoned to the Dutch . |
| 19 | One of the happiest parties I have been to for a long while was the one at Claridge 's given by Mr and Mrs John Newman , to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Miss Henrietta Newman to the Earl of Caledon , son of the late Earl of Caledon and the late Mrs Denis Alexander . |
| 20 | The importance of Stonyditch Point as the end of the spit for a long period is emphasised by the position of Orford , which was well situated as a port when the Ness ended at Stonyditch Point and not in its present position some miles to the south . |
| 21 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 22 | Been in there for a long time are n't they ? |
| 23 | first thing I 've had for a long time is er that . |
| 24 | However , governments have for a long time been divided over how large a merger must be before it passes out of national hands to Brussels . |
| 25 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 26 | Certain types of small bacteria , called mycoplasma or ureaplasma , have for a long time been thought to be responsible for some cases of NGU . |
| 27 | There had for a long time been publicly expressed unease in the United Kingdom about the unsatisfactory training of people treating the diseases of animals , whether they were farriers in the sense of being shoeing-smiths acting as horse-doctors , or were medical practitioners — physicians , or more especially surgeons — who had , partly or completely , left human medicine for the less crowded and potentially more lucrative ( if less socially acceptable ) field of animal medicine . |
| 28 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 29 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 30 | The geographical concentration of the relatively high per capita income services — especially in finance — in London and the South East has for a long time been a feature of the British economy [ Brown , 1972 ] . |