Example sentences of "was [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British White , largely on the basis of its coat pattern , was for a long while considered to be merely a polled variety of the White Park and , of course , there was some interbreeding . |
| 2 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 3 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 4 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 5 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |
| 6 | The mainstream of early French political socialism was for a long time essentially petit bourgeois , in its absence of rapprochement with trade unions , in its party organizational form , and in the social background of its parliamentarians and membership . |
| 7 | In university circles there was for a long time little sympathy for the innovators , and in his younger days Nietzsche 's own tastes inclined the same way . |
| 8 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 9 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 10 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 11 | But now , after his near miss with Hoomey , Nails remembered that he was for the long drop next time — no more cautions . |
| 12 | She remembered that John 's only rehearsal place at the time was in a long room above a sundry warehouse in Lower Moseley Street . |
| 13 | That , however , was in the long run . |
| 14 | The external threat to it of the restoration of Roman Catholicism through foreign invasion was in the long run less serious than that posed by the Puritans from within . |
| 15 | While the issue of means was left unresolved , clear teaching in regard to the issue of ends was in the long run probably more important . |
| 16 | He may have realised earlier than most of us that the King was in the long run unfitted to be King . |
| 17 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 18 | She was on a long time . |
| 19 | His hair was on the long side too , and she was almost sure he bleached the ends . |
| 20 | ‘ The turning point was on the long starboard tack at the start of the second beat , ’ said Conner 's tactician , Tom Whidden . |
| 21 | ‘ I told you , that was over a long time ago . ’ |