Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should also recall that the nature of the war , sieges pursued by both sides and the defence of a long frontier stretching from Le Crotoy in the east to Mont-Saint-Michel in the west , dictated a kind of war in which heavy cavalry played relatively little part other than in defence . |
| 2 | He felt clear headed enough to tackle the remainder of the long journey north . |
| 3 | Buddhists believe that Gautama the Buddha was the successor to a long line of earlier Buddhas , all distinguished by shrewdness , wisdom , love or sacrifice . |
| 4 | I think we must twist his arm to see if he can repeat the trick in the longer time available in one of our winter talks . |
| 5 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
| 6 | Measurements of DNA unwinding of supercoiled plasmid pBR322 DNA by these complexes show that in binding to DNA the platinum atom is covalently bound with the acridine chromophores intercalated adjacent to the metal binding site , or in the case of the longer chain homologues , one base pair removed from this site ( 4 ) . |
| 7 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
| 8 | Such an effect is dependent on wage bargaining procedures taking account of the implications of monetary union and it remains to be seen whether this will continue to be the case in the longer term . |
| 9 | Here I hope that I am in the present with the advantage of a long view back as well . |
| 10 | ‘ Seeing only the whirlpools and counter-currents but not the progress of the long river of history only reveals the observer 's political short-sightedness . ’ |
| 11 | Then suddenly he sees Piquet go into a spin and does n't get back into the field for a long time . |
| 12 | In the home market , it led the field by a long way , with 4,337,487 units sold ; Pan came next , with 2,181,514 . |
| 13 | This is obviously not new , and is in part an expansion of the teaching of a long line of papal encyclicals on social justice beginning with Leo XIII 's Rerum Novarum and extending up to Pope John 's Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris , but there is no possible doubt that the Council , following in this the footsteps of Pope John , gave both a wider range and a new urgency to concerns of this kind as properly constitutive of a very large part of Christian living . |
| 14 | But the second perspective is that the rent review clause is the landlord 's price for the grant of a long term , in the absence of which he would have granted a shorter term . |
| 15 | That evening I went to see an old friend ( that is , old in years ) in case out of the experience of a long life she might bring forth words of wisdom . |
| 16 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
| 17 | They played rummy with Patsy in the kitchen for a long time because Mother and Father went across the road to Dr and Mrs Johnson 's house . |
| 18 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 19 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 20 | However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate . |
| 21 | In 1987 33 per cent of the population , 35 per cent of females and 32 per cent of males , reported the presence of a long standing illness . |
| 22 | The boat was ready to leave now and two members of its small crew began casting off , one of them pushing the boat away from the quayside with a long boat-hook . |
| 23 | Ramblers are angry that a golf clubhouse is being built across the route of a long distance footpath . |
| 24 | Indeed , sometimes the original participants would leave in the course of a long recording session . |
| 25 | In the course of a long interview in his apartment , I found myself quite charmed by his lack of pretension , inarticulate babble sprinkled with the occasionally brilliant observation and odd habit of quoting himself , but I nevertheless remained convinced that Koons ' self-effacing earnestness was a scam . |
| 26 | In the course of a long lifetime , his bold concept was proved an amazing success . |
| 27 | In the course of a long lifetime ( 1752–1842 ) he changed the entire face of this part of the country , through his own efforts and those of his imitators . |
| 28 | In the course of a long career he became the leading locally based figure in the architecture of the town during the later seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth , being involved in many of the collegiate building projects of the period . |
| 29 | In City of Chicago v. Tribune Co. ( 1923 ) 139 N.E. 86 Thompson C.J. of the Supreme Court of Illinois in the course of a long judgment , all of which is of great interest , said , at p. 90 : |
| 30 | The Royal Fine Art Commission , while regretting the loss of the long facade by Kirkland , felt that a tall building was needed to act as a gateway from the M8 . |