Example sentences of "[vb pp] on a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Such accommodation can often be let on a long lease or sold to raise a capital sum . |
| 4 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 5 | We 've moved on a long way from the original version . ’ |
| 6 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 9 | This species has a finely toothed margin ; a large , wide leaf born on a long stem . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Well I think that it 's gone on a long time and it 's not |
| 16 | Hilary 's away for the day — gone on a long hike to tune himself up , as he put it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This consists of a heavy studded ball suspended on a long chain hanging from a pole . |