Example sentences of "which [vb past] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised .
2 All the machinery was powered by a gas engine which drove a long shaft near the ceiling that in turn , by means of belts to fast and loose pulleys , provided the motive power for the various equipment .
3 I had agreed to be co-author , but it was not until seven years after his retirement that work could begin , for only then had his committee activities abated to an extent which allowed the long periods necessary for writing and discussion .
4 In middle age he has experienced a breakdown , an identity crisis , which followed a long illness and an operation .
5 It was a fall down the cellar steps of one of these houses which started a long history of back trouble .
6 An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support .
7 Which took a long time to recover from .
8 At last there was room for a central bureau of information , which went a long way to reducing the confusion caused by overlapping responsibilities .
9 For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air .
10 Also on Oct. 17 the Supreme Soviet passed a decree which went a long way towards meeting other student demands , and secured an end to the protests .
11 Pushing all the forceps to one side he almost ran from the room and reappeared shortly with a tray on which reposed a long chisel and a metal mallet .
12 The ground which nurtured the long golden grass was hard and dry .
13 French doors opened out onto an enclosed patio which overlooked a long , sloping back garden .
14 This opinion , which had a long Christian ancestry , was still widely held and propagated in the fourteenth century .
15 Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history .
16 By thus reproducing arguments in favour of unequal pay which had a long pedigree , Amelia McLean 's article showed that she was either unable or unwilling to realize that , apart from anything else , the introduction of Monotype machines within the previous few years had completely redistributed the cards .
17 Città del Castello , which had a long rivalry with Arezzo , had reason to want papal protection in order to stave off the ambitions of Arezzo .
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