Example sentences of "long [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er well only two er and Skerrymor but I was er three year because it was called a rock station or a relieving station was a big island the island of Rhona seven miles long when the sea was n't near the tower at all but er and Skerrymor the sea was battering round the towers all the time . |
| 2 | As long as no individual is forced to work and no shop is forced to open , it must be right to change the law so people can do their shopping when they wish . |
| 3 | It may be a reason why the law should be altered by statute ; it does not prevent it from being law , or affect its operation , as long as no alteration in the law is made by statute . |
| 4 | It is these internally generated or endogenous components , lasting sometimes as long as a second after the triggering stimulus , which offer the most potential for investigating mental activities . |
| 5 | The government feels it can rely on er auditors to protect the interests of share holders and the creditors and the other stake holders but I have to tell the minister that that reliance which is now er strengthened by the regulations b by the er the order today has always proved er inadequate in the er in in the past er because poor auditing practices always get covered up , there 's no way for anybody to know how bad or how good er the audit is as long as a company er survives and we have n't developed in this country , the proper institutional framework to regulate auditors er effectively and to actually make them er er accountable . |
| 6 | His cock felt as hard and as long as a barber 's pole , as he held it in his fist and ground the round , blunt tip against her tender haven . |
| 7 | This , while nowhere near as long as a hummingbird 's tongue , is quite long enough from this position to burgle the nectaries . |
| 8 | In one boot was thrust a riding crop , unusual in that it was as long as a spear and tipped with tiny steel barbs . |
| 9 | However , as long as a system can recognize that this use of ‘ in the hand ’ implies that the hand is part of ‘ him ’ , it can avoid this kind of reasoning altogether and adopt a constraint propagation method to resolve both pronouns . |
| 10 | There is a kind of corporate responsibility , and as long as a government is just it is a citizen 's duty to support it , but when the actions or a government hurt the individual and harm the nation it is the duty of a citizen to withdraw his support . |
| 11 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 12 | It now seems that Britain 's upturn started as long as a year ago . |
| 13 | It m probably not as long as a year but it 's quite a while |
| 14 | Hitachi , Toshiba , Mitsubishi , Fujitsu , Nippon Electric and Matsushita — the largest of the ‘ mech-tronics ’ groups began making-robots as long as a decade ago . |
| 15 | We do not know how long he stayed in Paris — it could have been as long as a decade . |
| 16 | As a general rule , though , it is easier to cope with a dry site than a wet one : as long as a water supply is available , a dry site can be moistened to highlight the differences in soil colour and texture . |
| 17 | And then I want my shaft to be as long as a furlong and time to stand still and my tongue to be dipped in honey . |
| 18 | A trail of suds as long as a day 's walk |
| 19 | The group informally known as labyrinthodonts ( from their characteristic labyrinth-ridged teeth ) included some impressive animals almost as long as a man : perhaps the alligators of the time . |
| 20 | Black as night , with flaming red eyes and tusks as long as a man 's arm , the Erymanthian Boar had killed many people . |
| 21 | By the central pole stood a great oaken chest , three feet high and as long as a man . |
| 22 | As long as a man was unfree , he had no access to the royal courts , but could plead only in his lord 's court . |
| 23 | The theory goes something like this : as long as a country can continue to borrow money , it will effectively be able to ‘ roll over ’ its debt indefinitely . |
| 24 | Sometimes , as long as a minute passes before the ‘ yes ’ button is depressed by beak or paw . |
| 25 | It was a large fire , the mantle above it the height of Riven 's shoulders , and it was as long as a bed . |
| 26 | In historical periods a loss factor of about 2 per cent per annum is known to have occurred ; compounded over a period of as long as a century , this will clearly drastically reduce the amount of coinage of year a available to the hoarder at the later date . |
| 27 | It was , after all , as long as a cow . |
| 28 | The new 600 Plus film packs for all cameras , £8.99 for a pack of 10 , include a battery to power all the camera 's functions — so as long as a film is loaded , the camera has power . |
| 29 | As long as a son holds on to the mother as a love-object he must ineluctably be in conflict with the father , just as , conversely , as soon as he accepts the paternal authority and identifies with his father to constitute his superego he must suppress his fundamental parricidal antagonism and with it his incestuous fixation . |
| 30 | It came unclouded to them from our fathers , and we will defend this land , as long as a drop of Indian blood warms the hearts of our men . |