Example sentences of "[vb -s] a long [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately his wife , whom some of the family have never met , nevertheless writes a long newsy letter every Christmas . |
| 2 | It 's an excellent under-body insulator and has a long effective life . |
| 3 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
| 4 | The Bangor event , the richest 10K road race in Ireland , has a long Kenyan tradition . |
| 5 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |
| 6 | In Holland , STIVA has a long established reputation for helping young people to drink responsibly . |
| 7 | ‘ Transport ’ ( line 2 ) means ‘ rapturous emotion ’ ; ‘ vicissitude ’ ( line 4 ) has a long poetic history going back to Milton — it means ‘ alternation ’ , or ‘ change of circumstances ’ . |
| 8 | Further colour and splendour is brought to the occasion by the gold trimmed gowns and hats of the senior University officers : the Pro-Chancellors , the Vice-Chancellor and the Chancellor , whose gown has a long heavy train carried by his page . |
| 9 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 10 | Her skin is blue-black , she has a long red tongue , and snakes twine about her body . |
| 11 | It has a long historical lineage but the most sophisticated explanation is that given by Diplock L.J. , as he then was . |
| 12 | Called Myrmecobius , it has a long thin snout for poking into ants ' nests , and a long sticky tongue with which it mops up its prey . |
| 13 | Ideal dairy land has a long growing season , no summer drought period , a stable soil structure with good drainage to avoid excessive poaching , and an unfailing water supply . |
| 14 | The body is long and slender , with a pointed head and it has a long pointed snout that forms a ‘ bill ’ . |
| 15 | The spiny anteater , too , has a long pointed snout , but its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog rather than to another typical anteater . |
| 16 | N. battus is characterised by having only one set of parallel rays in each bursal lobe while the female worm has a long pointed tail and the large egg is brownish with parallel sides . |
| 17 | The fruit has a long pointed protrusion , rather like a bird 's beak , and that 's how it gets the geranium name , meaning ‘ crane ’ . |
| 18 | Thus where during the trader 's unsolicited visit an offer is made which is accepted only later , the customer effectively has a longer cooling-off period . |
| 19 | But it is also worth noting that evidence has been found of burials and drainage channels that appears to be pre-date any of the recorded cathedral buildings , and it now looks as if the site has a longer ecclesiastical history than was thought . ’ |
| 20 | Wears a long black coat , and a hat , and a skullcap under it , would you believe ? ’ |
| 21 | She wears a long yellow sweater and light blue jeans . |
| 22 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |
| 23 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |
| 24 | Seems a long long time since we used to do it . |
| 25 | Mr Rockoff now sports a long grey beard and was often in evidence , smoking fat cigarettes . |
| 26 | A beautiful waterway twelve miles long and relatively narrow , Loch Maree occupies a long straight furrow between tawny hills and , from end to end , nothing mars the tranquillity of the scene . |
| 27 | It carries a longer maximum sentence of ten years . |
| 28 | Mike Belcher faces a long cold night camped outside the offices of the glostershire training and enterprise council . |
| 29 | Because it has little executive power itself , the union faces a long hard road to have the motion adopted . |
| 30 | As Christiansson ( 1988 ) describes , rotational bush-fallowing and permanent agriculture are gradually replacing shifting cultivation in an area that experiences a long dry season and a short intense wet season . |