Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should also recall that the nature of the war , sieges pursued by both sides and the defence of a long frontier stretching from Le Crotoy in the east to Mont-Saint-Michel in the west , dictated a kind of war in which heavy cavalry played relatively little part other than in defence . |
| 2 | Light was admitted during the daytime through the long framed windows fitted with moulded glass , which could be seen stretching from end to end of the van under the cornice . |
| 3 | He felt clear headed enough to tackle the remainder of the long journey north . |
| 4 | The technical crux follows the scrambling : an absorbing pitch working intricately rightwards until thin moves give access to good holds in a short overhanging corner , which ends at the base of a long steepening ramp . |
| 5 | Carver as a learned composer , and clearly conversant with some of his English contemporaries , but it was surely worth noting that evidence , however tantalisingly fragmentary , exists to suggest the existence of a long pre-Reformation Scottish tradition of Faburden singing , of which Pater Creator might therefore be a late , indeed consciously crowning example |
| 6 | Buddhists believe that Gautama the Buddha was the successor to a long line of earlier Buddhas , all distinguished by shrewdness , wisdom , love or sacrifice . |
| 7 | Hers is a heartening , moving and ultimately triumphant story — a little victory won against the tide in the long , heart-breaking battle to save our wilderness world . |
| 8 | On Nov. 19 a French court ordered René Bousquet , a former police chief under the Vichy regime , to be tried for war crimes in an ordinary criminal court [ see p. 37899 ] , after overturning a ruling by the prosecutor-general 's office which had sent the case to a long defunct Special High Court of Liberation . |
| 9 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
| 10 | Here I hope that I am in the present with the advantage of a long view back as well . |
| 11 | With both at 33 , Cambridge began to draw ahead with the advantage of the long Surrey bend . |
| 12 | ‘ Seeing only the whirlpools and counter-currents but not the progress of the long river of history only reveals the observer 's political short-sightedness . ’ |
| 13 | Then suddenly he sees Piquet go into a spin and does n't get back into the field for a long time . |
| 14 | In the home market , it led the field by a long way , with 4,337,487 units sold ; Pan came next , with 2,181,514 . |
| 15 | This is obviously not new , and is in part an expansion of the teaching of a long line of papal encyclicals on social justice beginning with Leo XIII 's Rerum Novarum and extending up to Pope John 's Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris , but there is no possible doubt that the Council , following in this the footsteps of Pope John , gave both a wider range and a new urgency to concerns of this kind as properly constitutive of a very large part of Christian living . |
| 16 | But the second perspective is that the rent review clause is the landlord 's price for the grant of a long term , in the absence of which he would have granted a shorter term . |
| 17 | R. W. Francis , butcher of Church St. , Bishop 's Castle , used to buy whinberries in bulk from local pickers , and Plowden Station at the foot of the Long Mynd was an ideal pick up point for these pickers . |
| 18 | For a minute they walked in silence hearing the rustle of the long grasses over their shoes . |
| 19 | That evening I went to see an old friend ( that is , old in years ) in case out of the experience of a long life she might bring forth words of wisdom . |
| 20 | With the experience of a long and close association with world class designers , notably German Frers , we have developed a superb range of graceful and seakindly ocean cruising yachts with an emphasis on style and effortless performance . |
| 21 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
| 22 | They played rummy with Patsy in the kitchen for a long time because Mother and Father went across the road to Dr and Mrs Johnson 's house . |
| 23 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 24 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 25 | However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate . |
| 26 | In 1987 33 per cent of the population , 35 per cent of females and 32 per cent of males , reported the presence of a long standing illness . |
| 27 | The boat was ready to leave now and two members of its small crew began casting off , one of them pushing the boat away from the quayside with a long boat-hook . |
| 28 | Ramblers are angry that a golf clubhouse is being built across the route of a long distance footpath . |
| 29 | THE story of the Long Island Lolita who shot her love rival was screened on US TV last night . |
| 30 | Ben Alder has always seemed as impenetrable to me as a hi-fi magazine , but from up on the ridge it gives away its secrets and reveals a relatively simple ascent from the west up a long , inclining slope . |