Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 2 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 3 | A set of 32 items meeting these criteria were selected for a short form of the test , and a larger set of 150 items was included in a long form of the test . |
| 4 | It must be admitted that the famous mould may well have strayed upstairs from the cultures on the floor below , and is perhaps to be included in the long list of profitable discoveries which arose from a lapse in maintaining the highest standards of laboratory practice . |
| 5 | Strict glycaemic control by using portable insulin pumps can arrest progression towards diabetic nephropathy , but this method 's safety must be considered in the long term . |
| 6 | As he said , it makes some criticism of the European dimension , but in paragraph 8 headed ’ Europe ’ it also says : ’ While local government structure in the UK can not be determined by the nature of European structural funds and the case for regional authorities with power over service delivery has not been made out , the European dimension must nonetheless be considered in the longer term . ’ |
| 7 | They 're not always to be trusted in the long term , you know . ’ |
| 8 | Even in these circumstances the approach provided a deep insight into the information needs of the organisation , and revealed a considerable number of potential improvements , some of which were implemented in the course of the study and others that were addressed in the longer term . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's the most charming man I 've met in a long time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You are the most frustrating piece of womanhood I 've met in a long time , ’ he rasped . |
| 11 | She unfastened her own belt , and as her arms wound about his neck their lips met in a long kiss . |
| 12 | Fuller justice to these topics , as well as the ape language experiments and various glottogonic theories , is to be done in a longer study . ) |
| 13 | Surely , however , the women who do make the transition from the grant-aided sector to the mainstream bring with them a history of political and creative experience which must make itself felt in the long run ? |
| 14 | Paolucci claims ( in Beccaria 1963 , p. ix ) that Dei Delitti e delle Pene has had ‘ more practical effect than any other treatise ever written in the long campaign against barbarism in criminal law and procedure ’ . |
| 15 | His preliminary architectural sketches hung in a long glass frame on the passage wall inside the cottage . |
| 16 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 17 | It was a hell of a match , one of the best I 've seen in a long while ( live that is ) . |
| 18 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
| 19 | Nobody stops learning , but at only 15st I 'm the fastest heavyweight the world has seen in a long time . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I have hit shots this week I have n't seen in a long time . |
| 21 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
| 22 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |
| 23 | This is the highest quality educational package I have seen in a long time and is well worth registering . |
| 24 | There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time . |
| 25 | Elland Road was the emptiest I 've seen in a long time , 23,000 of which 4000 were Crewe fans . |
| 26 | Hell of a good film though , it 's the best film I 've seen in a long time . |
| 27 | This increase , however , needs to be seen in a longer time-scale . |
| 28 | The main changes will be seen in the long run when you look back , so it is sometimes useful to have photographs taken of yourself just before , and just after , your course of lessons . |
| 29 | Its site , significantly , is visualized as private ; there are no buildings to be seen in the long perspective to the viewer 's right . |
| 30 | Now the DNA operating system of a species is very very old indeed , and there is evidence that it , seen in the long term , does something a bit like the computer with its disc files . |