Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hall replied that there were a lot of wagons outside and that it looked as though some men were to go to Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 2 | Our days were filled with long interviews with the architect , the plumber , the electrician and the foreman builder . |
| 3 | A couple of times we were attacked by long range German ‘ planes but fortunately on these occasions , they missed us . |
| 4 | But the apples were wrinkled from long storage , and the meat had been salted to preserve it . |
| 5 | In a trial held in October 1990 , 38 members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam ( NUFLVN ) resistance movement were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment after being found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 6 | The managers of the company were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment in October . |
| 7 | Scaling forks were made with long shafts and prominent hooks to dislodge defenders from walls . |
| 8 | There were few windows on the exterior , their roofs were supplied with long walkways protected by thick parapets , and high look-out towers flanked the entrance and main concourse . |
| 9 | And he admits : ‘ It is not normal for the Spanish people to leave the place where you were born for long spells . |
| 10 | They were mounted on long wheelbase trucks fitted with Lycett & Conaty radial gear in which the axles pivoted about the motors and there were no motor support springs , but there were very large protruding axle-boxes . |
| 11 | It was a more profound unpredictability , in spite of the fact that probably a good proportion of workers were employed for long periods of their lives by a single employer . |
| 12 | It has been alleged by the director of a management investigation company that telephones in Transport House , then the headquarters of the Labour Party and still the headquarters of the TGWU , were tapped for long periods during 1972 , a time of union opposition to the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 13 | The other 20 men and 10 women started antihypertensive medication at mean ages of 35.5 and 40.8 years respectively ; many patients were observed for long periods before starting medication , especially in the early 1970s . |
| 14 | These contraction sequences were associated with long periods of increased baseline pressure in the distal oesophagus . |
| 15 | No market research informed Laura that women were thirsting for long dresses which they could not find . |
| 16 | We went into a room where all these children were sitting at long rows of tables . |
| 17 | This situation is different from the condition in which the present studies were performed and in which pressures were recorded over long periods , with the patient not being asked to take swallows . |
| 18 | All were controlled for long periods with endoscopic treatment altough it is possible that obstruction contributed to death in one patient . |
| 19 | The model queens of the magazine covers , Suzy Parker in America and Barbara Goalen in England , were ladies who were photographed in long gloves . |
| 20 | Now Maura 's hair was hanging in long waves , unaccustomed to being out of plaits , her eyes sad and shining with unshed tears . |
| 21 | But he was resented by long memories in those who had fought a war ; by Churchill 's men for weakening the morale of the Air Force through his attacks on area bombing ; by the school of Lord Vansittart which loathed Germans and said that Nazis were typical of that race , and hated a bishop who told them never to identify the true Germany with Hitler . |
| 22 | Much of the actual mock-up assembly work was completed in Hawaii before the filming , but the preliminary moulding and construction was completed at Long Beach and then shipped to Pearl Harbor . |
| 23 | His rise to prominence in political leadership was punctuated by long periods of withdrawal enforced by the colonial government : in this respect he was like Nehru during these same years , also held incommun-icado by the colonial power . |
| 24 | He was living in Long Island . |
| 25 | Ngawang Buchung was sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for activities in support of Tibetan independence , which included circulating Tibetan translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 26 | Money was made by long runs of dresses successfully sold . |
| 27 | The money was raised on long term , mainly for forty years , and carried a high rate of interest . |
| 28 | In contrast , the adjustable peg system was characterized by long periods of crisis in deficit countries such as the UK with exchange rate adjustment occurring infrequently and belatedly , e.g. the devaluations of 1949 and 1967 . |
| 29 | It has to be admitted that this was observed from long range , an unsatisfactory two-dimensional experience but nevertheless valuable as a guide to England 's immediate potential . |
| 30 | Wilderness Of The Mind — Marc Bolan was compiled by long term fans John Williams and Caron Thomas , and chronicles the more obscure details and little known facts about his life . |