Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was resented by long memories in those who had fought a war ; by Churchill 's men for weakening the morale of the Air Force through his attacks on area bombing ; by the school of Lord Vansittart which loathed Germans and said that Nazis were typical of that race , and hated a bishop who told them never to identify the true Germany with Hitler . |
| 2 | Much of the actual mock-up assembly work was completed in Hawaii before the filming , but the preliminary moulding and construction was completed at Long Beach and then shipped to Pearl Harbor . |
| 3 | His rise to prominence in political leadership was punctuated by long periods of withdrawal enforced by the colonial government : in this respect he was like Nehru during these same years , also held incommun-icado by the colonial power . |
| 4 | All of this was contained within long classical façades , with corner pavilions setting off all four sides . |
| 5 | Ngawang Buchung was sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for activities in support of Tibetan independence , which included circulating Tibetan translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 6 | Money was made by long runs of dresses successfully sold . |
| 7 | The money was raised on long term , mainly for forty years , and carried a high rate of interest . |
| 8 | In contrast , the adjustable peg system was characterized by long periods of crisis in deficit countries such as the UK with exchange rate adjustment occurring infrequently and belatedly , e.g. the devaluations of 1949 and 1967 . |
| 9 | It has to be admitted that this was observed from long range , an unsatisfactory two-dimensional experience but nevertheless valuable as a guide to England 's immediate potential . |
| 10 | Wilderness Of The Mind — Marc Bolan was compiled by long term fans John Williams and Caron Thomas , and chronicles the more obscure details and little known facts about his life . |
| 11 | In the centre the earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows , and there was a narrow , regular hole , about the same size as one of the carrots they had carried that morning . |
| 12 | The earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows . |
| 13 | The gloom was cut by long thin shafts of light falling between the columns from ventilation holes in the high ceiling . |
| 14 | The campaign was fought for long periods with all the strategic sense of an exhausted boxer launching haymakers from the ropes . |
| 15 | In medieval Europe and Islam , for example , the monetary stability of the coinage was adjudged paramount and consequently the same design was retained for long periods to maintain public confidence and implicitly offer reassurance about the unchanging quality of the coinage ; we have already noted in Chapter 2 the same sort of attitude in Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries BC ( see figs. 9 and 3 ) . |
| 16 | The way was lined with long narrow carts , each piled with stone , ready for its last journey . |
| 17 | The belly was covered in long piercing spikes , and I was going to fall on them any minute , and thousands of spikes would plunge into me — puncture me , penetrate my flesh — and out would pour my life 's blood , red and sticky , all down my body and down the elephant 's body and streakily into the waters of the pond . |