Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] long [noun sg] [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 | Between Haweswater and the rest of the Lake District lies the longest range of hills in the Lake District above 2,000ft . |
| 3 | Baltusrol is unusual in many respects , most notably that it contains the longest hole in championship golf , the 630 yard 17th . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This region has the longer history of continuous occupation by tundra , for at no time during the post-glacial period was it invaded by forest . |
| 6 | Red has the longest wavelength of visible light , and violet the shortest . |
| 7 | Each format has its own cassette design ( anticlockwise from top ) : VHS is the largest in size and has the longest runtime of up to four hours ( PAL ) ; VHS-C cassettes are more compact but the runtime is reduced to a maximum of 1 ½ hours ( Long Play ) ; Video 8 has the smallest cassettes but runs for up to four hours ( LP ) . |
| 8 | The US has the longest tradition of natural gas use of any country in the world . |
| 9 | She , the ‘ bootlace ’ of Latin America , has the longest coastline of any country on the Pacific — 3,317 miles , longer by far than the entire Pacific coastline of Australia , which is a mere 2,450 miles from Cape York to Tasmania . |
| 10 | Despite my files tellin me this month has the longest list of genre titles , it is the one with least to offer . |
| 11 | Avenches illustrates the long history of settlement characteristic of Mittelland . |
| 12 | Any investigation which covers a long span of time is bound to encounter certain special problems . |
| 13 | Who wants a long Grace Before Meals ? |
| 14 | Rejoicing in the subtle name of Got ta Bite , the substance joins a long list of similar ‘ Snake Oil ’ fishing aids from the USA . |
| 15 | The Queen heads a long list of lenders of the more than 700 objects in the exhibition . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Latin — Much to learn : starts a long way behind the rest : — works well . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He might have added : But he has a long memory for those that let him down . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Additionally , the needle has a long groove in its front face . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It noted that ‘ Corbett McDonald has a long history as a lobbyist for the asbestos industry . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
| 29 | The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings . |
| 30 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |