Example sentences of "but [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the long revolution to share out caring responsibilities , the re-skilling of work and the training of women , and the provision of facilities for finance and marketing of their own products , looks like being a very long one indeed . |
| 2 | Cautiously , Athelstan joined the fray — not as expertly as Sir John , but the long ash pole came into play , creating as much confusion as it did hum . |
| 3 | But the long recession , together with high unemployment figures and a stagnant housing market , has changed homeowners ' perceptions . |
| 4 | In between promise and entry lie not only the stories of Isaac and Jacob , but the long story of Joseph and the other sons of Jacob , a period of 430 years spent in Egypt by their descendants , most of it in slave labour , a dramatic escape from the Pharaoh and his army , and forty years of wandering or living in the wilderness of the Sinai peninsula . |
| 5 | But the long story of how this valley more or less governed itself , and in a profoundly communal spirit , is typically Pyrenean . |
| 6 | But the long haul through the muddy roads slowed the horses ' progress almost to a walk , and it was not until after five in the evening that the vehicle finally came to a halt outside the George inn in Mountsorrel , a little place some distance before the larger town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch . |
| 7 | The east end of the Cathedral is Gothic , but the long nave is still Romanesque and the transepts are in a Transitional form of the style ; the two parts of the cathedral form a marked contrast , particularly inside the building , and a useful study . |
| 8 | But the long weekend was on the strict understanding that she pay her own way . |
| 9 | But the long period of non-use can be said to amount to a custom , and to create a reasonable expectation that the pattern of restraint should continue in the future ( O'Brien , 1967 , pp. 79–80 ) . |
| 10 | To return to the earlier days of the state , however , one must remark upon several other provisions of the Kanunname of Mehmed II if only to avoid giving the impression that , at least in these early days , the establishment of a hierarchy for the ulema meant that a scholar , once enmeshed in its toils , had no option but the long grind to the top of that particular profession . |
| 11 | Their case is best put , or rather rejected , but the long serving chairman of the Japanese Union , Shiggy Konno . |
| 12 | But the long term aim is to make it all dual carriageway … hopes are high the government will announce this in a couple of years . |
| 13 | But a long shirt tail flopped down around his thighs . |
| 14 | Others have some flexibility , being prepared to serve documents in any language which the addressee is likely to understand ; a short document addressed to a commercial firm in English or a language similar to that of the state of destination ( e.g. a document in Norwegian for service in Sweden ) will be accepted , but a long document addressed to a private individual in a relatively obscure language will not . |
| 15 | Her family were good , but a long way away and there was just no future at all . |
| 16 | His second shot was in the rough on the left , but a long way down and then he chips stone-dead . |
| 17 | Last year 3,284 were killed or seriously injured , which is down on the figure of 4,302 in 1981 , but a long way from the Department of Transport 's aim of cutting it to below 3,000 . |
| 18 | Apart from cases such as those we have been discussing , where the industries are nearly perfectly contestable , there are other , more traditional cases where the industry is a natural monopoly but a long way from being naturally contestable . |
| 19 | It was small , or perhaps it was very big but a long way off . |
| 20 | I 'D never heard of Mike Harding until I moved to Sedbergh , a little town not too far from Hawes , but a long way away from anywhere else . |
| 21 | But a long story was an indulgence . |
| 22 | The heavy expense of furnishing a home and then supplying the needs of a young family is difficult to meet straight out of income : but a long working life should give reasonable expectations of these young couples being able to pay off what they owe . ’ |
| 23 | But a long holiday would revive him quickly : if he had the prospect of a month of freedom he would began to feel well after a week or so . |
| 24 | ‘ Aye , a heavy blow , or a deep blow — but a long knife can make them that little heavier , or deeper , and never be noticed . |
| 25 | I did n't have a hairbrush but a long pole that was used to open up the attic hatch . |
| 26 | But a long time ago I was writing a television play about Irish men coming over to England to collect their brother 's body , and I could n't imagine how they 'd talk . |
| 27 | It was a fine sunny day but a long walk , about 30 km . |
| 28 | Some of the first newly-planned settlements were established by Victorian industrialists themselves , but a long process of government legislation culminated in the passing , between 1945 and 1950 , of comprehensive Town and Country Planning legislation , including provision for New Towns and National Parks but also a characteristically negative policy toward the expansion of cities themselves . |
| 29 | It was not a note but a long letter explaining everything , as long and taking her as long to compose as the last piece of writing she had done , an essay comparing and contrasting Verdi and Wagner and their operas . |
| 30 | Erm the being nineteen fifty er preserving , this is a quote , preserving a rich peasant economy is of course not a temporary but a long term policy . |