Example sentences of "and [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My tours of duty on Vincent were very infrequent following this brief training course , and the long periods ashore trudging round the docks on routine customs work seemed very dull in comparison with life afloat . |
| 2 | His arms hardly move at all — just the legs move , and his bare feet on the ground as he jumps up and down , and the long tuft of hair that bounces back and forth over his shoulder . |
| 3 | The club had another double champion in Catriona Slater , who won the inter-ladies 100m in 12.7 and the long jump with a leap of 5.45 . |
| 4 | There is then a pause of perhaps only a few seconds , a semaphore drops , a gleaming red light changes to green , and the long goods train moves out on its journey . |
| 5 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 6 | The tips of the fingers and toes are equipped with sucker-like discs that help them to cling on , and the long tail is used as a balance and brake when leaping from branch to branch . |
| 7 | Slim , elegant pintails rose suddenly from the water and flew , a small flight of nine , the curving white line on slender necks and the long tail feathers clearly visible . |
| 8 | The reasons were the lack of available places and the long distances between home and school . |
| 9 | Cloud swirled up from the valleys , clearing spasmodically to reveal distant peaks , ice-cold lakes and the long ridge in front . |
| 10 | Limbs were often not properly joined with bodies and the long necks and rigidity of attitudes recall the shapes of the clay idols of the period . |
| 11 | In almost every aspect of our national life , from the educational system to the institution of marriage , the ethic of instant gratification and the rejection of perseverance and the long haul are clearly evident . |
| 12 | The fundamental divide in British politics in the inter-war period proved to be not the differences between the rapidly growing and supposedly socialist Labour party and the long tradition of high politics , encapsulated in the party divisions between the Conservatives and the steadily decaying Liberal party , but between the economic conservatives and economic radicals across the political spectrum . |
| 13 | ( 3 ) Nixon and the Long Withdrawal , 1969–73 |
| 14 | Critics of the planning system argued that the resulting system was bureaucratic and slow moving because of the problems of dealing with competing interests and the long cycles of committee meetings that local authorities use . |
| 15 | And the long hop as it were , sir , it maybe er not an appropriate time to ask about , but I think it 's important to understand , certainly I would like to understand , that if this panel , this enquiry does n't establish the location for the new settlement , Mr Wincup is implying that that should be agreed before the plan is adopted by the County Council . |
| 16 | The second and third categories suffered from the humidity and the long reaches created by Jaspar ‘ he 's not short ’ Sharpe . |
| 17 | Traditionally some vendors oppose asset sales on the basis that it takes too long to obtain the landlord 's consent and the long delay between exchange and completion causes uncertainty for the business . |
| 18 | Estimates have now been obtained to install a closed circuit television system in both the Myles Meehan and the Long Gallery . |
| 19 | In view of these needs and the long standing trends in computer speed increases , scientists naturally hope to have more powerful computers to allow work on these problems in the near future . |
| 20 | No changes were envisaged in Chapter I dealing with service , and the long intermission in the activities of the Conference until its revival in 1951 prevented any action . |
| 21 | Labour knows , and the long faces around the hon. Gentleman confirm , that the council tax is a winner and that we have found in three months the solution that has eluded Labour for three years . |
| 22 | He did not have time to study any more , and the long hours of work on the farm made him tired and dull . |
| 23 | But for /Ε/ , the short variant can be a low vowel ( [ a , ae ] ) and the long variant is a mid vowel that is easily heard to be qualitatively distinct . |
| 24 | Time is a great healer , and the long winter reduced my anger level so that when the first one-day international of 1992 came around , I was happy and full of optimistic expectation . |
| 25 | Had Johnson walked Drummossie he would have had to contemplate the events there , and the long reverberations of 1746 , and the gloatings and celebrations that took place annually in Inverness long afterwards , and since he was chronically and constitutionally unable not to give an opinion , whatever he said would have landed him in difficulty with somebody . |
| 26 | Even poets must come down to earth and to the bottom of their hills , and the long poem ends : |
| 27 | Major works represented include Lucky Poet ( 1943 ) , and the long poem ‘ Mature Art ’ , much of which was never published . |
| 28 | Dublin will need bottle — the quality Cambridge worried about in those early days — to cope with his cruel injury and the long slog back to full fitness . |
| 29 | But the high moorlands , the deep valleys and the long sea inlets , or rias , were obstacles . |
| 30 | And the long roll call begins . |