Example sentences of "long and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , ingratiating and inventive in equal measure , they thrived to form the longest and greatest tradition of British art . |
| 2 | The 1991 results are likely to be poor but , as the dominant UK credit insurer operating in the longest and deepest recession for many years , one can hardly expect to see good figures . |
| 3 | Chrysler 's next Plymouth , the 1955 model , was sixteen inches longer and three inches lower than its predecessor , the longest and lowest car for the money . |
| 4 | In 1724 Daniel Defoe described it as ‘ perhaps the largest , longest and finest street for buildings and number of inhabitants , not in Britain only , but in the world ’ . |
| 5 | The 1989–90 Whitbread was 33,000 miles long , the world 's longest and toughest yacht race ever to take place . |
| 6 | ‘ Walk A is the longest and hardest option covering eight miles and a 3,000 feet ascent while at the other end of the scale a D class walk would cover the same distance but ascend just 1,500 feet . ’ |
| 7 | And , despite claims , particularly among the Germans , French , Italians and Spanish , that it is a bad thing , many American insurance companies reckon that people with low blood pressure in middle age , far from suffering a disease , are expected to lead the longest and healthiest lives . |
| 8 | For forked tails , depth is the ratio of the mean lengths of their longest and shortest feathers . |
| 9 | Body length and the lengths of the longest and shortest tail feathers were measured on 10 male and 10 female skins in breeding plumage ( except=only 5 males and 6 females ; =only 8 females ) . |
| 10 | Probably Ireland 's best known festive event by far — and Guinness has been its longest and strongest ally — is the Rose of Tralee Festival where every year contestants from throughout the world come to Kerry to compete for the coveted Rose of Tralee title . |
| 11 | He conquered his tongue and — with excellent irony — was directed by Mr Pygmalion Philip Burton to play the long and taxing role of Professor Higgins — expert on English speech — in Pygmalion . |
| 12 | The biggest disappointments were Akira Kurosawa 's ‘ Madadayo ’ , a boring film about a teacher and his irritating pupils , and ‘ Far Away , So Close ’ , a long and pretentious film directed by Wim Wenders which undeservedly took the Grand Jury Prize . |
| 13 | The rat-teeth missed her but caught her robe , slashing it open from hip to ankle , revealing a long and shapely leg . |
| 14 | And then , after a long and thoughtful pause , she hit me with it . |
| 15 | Oh dear , I 'm totally drawn , erm … ( long and thoughtful pause ) |
| 16 | ‘ Child , ’ said Cadfael , after a long and thoughtful silence , ‘ do not deceive yourself that even that would still every tongue . |
| 17 | A similar attempt to draw attention to an approaching commitment that was so deep that it might even lead to direct US intervention was made by the Deputy Director of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , John Ohly , in a long and thoughtful paper which he submitted through Rusk to Acheson . |
| 18 | Individual veins are up to 100 m long and 2–3 m wide within zones up to one kilometre long and 100m wide . |
| 19 | Research on the transnational corporations relies on no single methodology but borrows from comparative and cross-cultural research , for which there are long and varying traditions in the social sciences . |
| 20 | The later years of her long and successful life were troubled , alas , by an excess of curious and unannounced visitors in addition to the genuine and eminent gardeners whom she welcomed . |
| 21 | THIS EDITION of Link heralds the beginning of a new era in the long and successful history of the LCCIEB as an independent awarding body . |
| 22 | The School has a long and successful tradition in team games and competitions . |
| 23 | The press release also pronounced Christmas trading to be ‘ excellent ’ , and said that both Waterstones and Harrods were now committed to a long and successful relationship . |
| 24 | It was only twenty-one years since Salisbury had concluded his long and successful period of power , and only twenty-eight years since another peer ( Rosebery ) had presided ( although less successfully ) over a Liberal Government . |
| 25 | M&TIS Calibration laboratory has had a long and successful association with Rosemount providing calibrations of differential pressure transducers , typically to an accuracy of 0.09% at 500mbar differential and 200 bar static pressure . |
| 26 | She was a total mystery to him in spite of their long and successful association . |
| 27 | The approach to the church is through a lychgate erected in 1889 to commemorate the long and successful reign of Queen Victoria . |
| 28 | His boyhood feats set the pace for a long and successful career as an international grandmaster , but , though he scored some spectacular defeats , Reshevsky never became a close challenger for the world championship . |
| 29 | The occasion was ‘ to commemorate the long and successful partnership ’ between the education authority and colleges in the county . |
| 30 | A common image of health in old age is one associated with the loss of energy and personal drive , significantly greater need for rest , long and increasing periods of sickness , permanent experience of pain and discomfort , increasing immobility , the gradual loss of personal control and responsibility , the onset of incontinence , with the resulting loss of dignity and self-respect , increasing confusion , and ultimately the most feared condition of all , senility . |