Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Politis editor , Mr Jean-Paul Besset , said his magazine had carried out a long investigation into dangerous waste dumping , including the discovery in 1983 of barrels of earth impregnated with dioxin from Seveso that were illegally shipped to northern France by an independent contractor . |
| 2 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 3 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 4 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
| 5 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 6 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 7 | In the resonance technique a series of pulses of either compressional or torsional waves is transmitted down a long rod mechanically coupled to the specimen under investigation . |
| 8 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 9 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
| 10 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
| 11 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 12 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 13 | He had drawn up a long list of people she ought to talk to during the day : fashion houses , designers , a couple of artists ' studios , a gallery specializing in contemporary prints . |
| 14 | erm on the next er , item er we have er on item ten we 've got the welfare rights and er advice and we 've got quite a long report which I hope you 'll agree is an excellent report , er and er Sue is here to present it . |
| 15 | He 's got quite a long body which is what |
| 16 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 17 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 18 | This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory . |
| 19 | But a doctor , one of the doctors in the same hospital saying , that the , during the First World War , when they were so desperate , you know , so many casualties , they had to cut short treatment , and they had to bandage men up and leave them bandaged up a long length of , they found it was often better to leave a wound bandaged up in it 's own |
| 20 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 21 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 22 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 23 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |
| 24 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 25 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 26 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 27 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 28 | VAMPIRE PRESERVATION GROUP have recently acquired Sea Venom XG737 from the Wales Aircraft Museum , which will be put on a long term restoration programme after completion of the group 's Vampire T.11 and Jet Provost T.4 . |
| 29 | Word was passed down the long column to close up , and to be ready to make a dash for the ford . |
| 30 | The Government has advised that women who are pregnant or may become pregnant should not eat liver , as very large doses of vitamin A taken over a long period may be associated with foetal abnormalities . |