Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Albert Funnel , a child in Brighton in the 1900s , evokes the long shadow of the workhouse over the lives of the elderly in the decades before Old Age Pensions : |
2 | Equally , Lyell has the long succession of faunas and floras brought about by a continual , one-by-one extinction of species and their replacement by new ones . |
3 | Avenches illustrates the long history of settlement characteristic of Mittelland . |
4 | Any investigation which covers a long span of time is bound to encounter certain special problems . |
5 | Who wants a long Grace Before Meals ? |
6 | Rejoicing in the subtle name of Got ta Bite , the substance joins a long list of similar ‘ Snake Oil ’ fishing aids from the USA . |
7 | The Queen heads a long list of lenders of the more than 700 objects in the exhibition . |
8 | Nicetius of Trier threatened to excommunicate Theudebert I for adultery , and he frequently excommunicated Chlothar I. He heads a long line of saints who dared to challenge the Merovingians on their sexual profligacy . |
9 | Latin — Much to learn : starts a long way behind the rest : — works well . |
10 | Resuming the journey from Stone House Bridge , the road now starts a long climb to its summit , rising gently at first and with the Dee an inseparable companion alongside . |
11 | He might have added : But he has a long memory for those that let him down . |
12 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
13 | Additionally , the needle has a long groove in its front face . |
14 | And she said er Angela said to her oh poor Neil has to stays in bed until one o'clock every Saturday and then on Sunday he has a he gets up late and then he has a long rest in the afternoon and Pam said to me he 's copping out . |
15 | It noted that ‘ Corbett McDonald has a long history as a lobbyist for the asbestos industry . |
16 | ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods . |
17 | During a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against NMFS to compel observer coverage of the total US tuna fleet , the legal counsel for Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund stated : ‘ The National Marine Fisheries Service has a long history of ignoring the will of Congress and working closely with the fishing industry . |
18 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
19 | In fact , this is probably , the most completely original church from the sixteenth-century in Milan and has a long history of being attended by the rich and powerful . |
20 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
21 | The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings . |
22 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
23 | The CAB has a long history of mobilising professionals such as lawyers , accountants and surveyors , to advise clients on a voluntary basis but there are very few lawyers who specialise in welfare benefits or money advice . |
24 | Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation . |
25 | Egypt is another example of a country which , like Pakistan and China , has a long history of irrigation , in this case in the Nile Valley ( section 3.4.2 ) beginning some 5 kyr BP . |
26 | In Tanzania , for example , the Dodoma section of the semi-arid central region has a long history of both accelerated soil erosion and attempts at conservation . |
27 | The region has a long history of human activity ( section 3.2.1 ) , and although erosion has always been a problem it has intensified considerably in the last 100 years as deforestation has accelerated and grasslands have been degraded . |
28 | One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender . |
29 | But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans . |
30 | It may seem obvious to suggest that the level of understanding about purchasing among general practitioners and primary health care teams is extremely varied , but primary care has a long history of suffering from being physically distanced from other parts of the service and the discussions taking place there . |