Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly significant changes are found for residues located on the long E helix ( Glu 204 and Phe 208 ) . |
| 2 | The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff . |
| 3 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 4 | Such accommodation can often be let on a long lease or sold to raise a capital sum . |
| 5 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 6 | By then we should have completed any changes to the constitution and bye-laws , have decided on the long term future of our examination system and have strengthened our financial position so that we can meet the costs involved . |
| 7 | The growth hormone locus has also been mapped on the long arm of chromosome 17 , at 17q 22–24 , close to the BRCA1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families . |
| 8 | We 've moved on a long way from the original version . ’ |
| 9 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 10 | A superb outing of this kind can be had on the long Nantlle ridge — comprising six miles and six mountains of excellent high-level walking . |
| 11 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 12 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 13 | This species has a finely toothed margin ; a large , wide leaf born on a long stem . |
| 14 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 15 | Once inside the room , the two officers stripped off their black uniform jackets , and sprawled on the long sofa . |
| 16 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |
| 17 | The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In this tale , two weeds grew on a river bank ; one of them conserved its energy , and grew low and small and brown , with its sights set on a long life , while the other put forth all its strength into growing tall and into colouring itself a beautiful green . |
| 20 | This patient was shown as homozygous with the probe Lambda MS32 , assigned on the long arm of chromosome 1 ( 1q43–43 ) , for his normal and primary tumour DNA . |
| 21 | Acyclovir may be given on a long term basis to people with HIV who have had an attack of shingles , or have frequent attacks of herpes simplex . |
| 22 | Well I think that it 's gone on a long time and it 's not |
| 23 | Hilary 's away for the day — gone on a long hike to tune himself up , as he put it . |
| 24 | John Maddox , the editor of Nature , wrote in 1982 : ‘ The OED is uniquely a data base … , which will suggest to many that it should by now be stored on a long reel of magnetic tape , floppy disks , or some other means of data storage . |
| 25 | The fact that the BRCA1 gene for breast cancer is flanked on the long arm of chromosome 17 by the THRA1 gene for the thyroid hormone receptor may be important in this respect . |
| 26 | Within the hour Robert set out up-river to the ford by Pool , to carry the news across the river to the castellan at Castell Coch ; and before the morning was out , a rider was despatched on the long ride to Llewelyn 's court at Aber . |
| 27 | Ahead of them was a little church not unlike the many they had passed on the long route-march from Etaples to the front . |
| 28 | Sunday winter evenings by the dining-room fire were very special — crumpets toasted on a long toasting fork by the fire ; watching the changing colours of the flames , and the sparks which shot into the chimney . |
| 29 | In cases where a tumour suppressor gene is inactivated , repetitive cellular repair may lead to uncontrolled cell division and malignant transformation ; a putative tumour suppressor gene has been described on the long arm of chromosome 17 . |
| 30 | This consists of a heavy studded ball suspended on a long chain hanging from a pole . |