Example sentences of "and [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real question , wrote Harsnet , is where the short run ends and the long run begins , since in the long run long and short are also without meaning . |
| 2 | It was shimmering , incandescent , as the colours deepened and the long blue-black tail unfurled and stiffened until it gained the strength to fly . |
| 3 | Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either . |
| 4 | The sun shone on the rippling river and the long willow leaves just touched its bubbling golden surface . |
| 5 | Camb looked compassionately at the quivering febrile mouth and the long unfiled nails that played with those rings . |
| 6 | The evening was warm and clear , the light and the long soft shadows more flattering to this market town High Street than the noonday sun . |
| 7 | She understood his grief and his sense of loss and loneliness — she had been there herself , after the King 's death — and she knew about the feelings of despair and the long , long time the scars would take to heal , but she also knew about the importance of carrying on . |
| 8 | All at once the engine uttered a roar and the long silver pistons began to labour . |
| 9 | And the long roll call begins . |
| 10 | In the same way we can also define short periods of currency life ; it is from the composition of hoards that we know , for example , that neither of the two principal coinages of late twelfth- and thirteenth-century England , the Short Cross coinage of 1180–1247 and the Long Cross coinage of 1247–79 , survived in circulation after their production had stopped . |
| 11 | ‘ The short answer to your question is ‘ yes ’ , and the long answer is that you are subject to the calibre of the Minister . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was Saturday , and the long street was still , empty as only Glasgow can be during the summer , a stage set patrolled by a solitary policeman . |
| 14 | He smiled and the long scar that ran from his forehead to his chin became a livid white . |
| 15 | Far below he could see the lacework shadow of the Forth bridge on the glittering estuary and the long dark lines of the cruisers Edinburgh , Southampton , and further out , the destroyer Mohawk , under way for Rosyth after convoy duty . |
| 16 | She had been a somewhat delicate woman for some years and the long and Perilous sea voyage to Australia had taken its toll . |
| 17 | The European powers flatly — and brutally — rejected the right of national self-determination for their colonies both in the immediate and the long term . |
| 18 | When our turn came , I could see the rifles and guns lying on the table and the long queue of lorries , leaving the land of oranges far behind and spreading out over the winding roads of Lebanon . |
| 19 | As Syme has remarked , ‘ Rome 's peculiar greatness was due not to one man 's genius or to one age , but to many men and the long process of time . ’ |
| 20 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
| 21 | The two young Tuaregs wore the voluminous light-blue ganduras or smocks , baggy green trousers , indigo head-wraps and the long swords of their tribe . |
| 22 | Any proposals to tackle both the assumptions behind these recent policies and the long entrenched age discrimination within social security will have an uphill task . |
| 23 | The coordinating of the various world pick-ups did try the patience of all concerned and the long waits at 5am on a chilly Christmas morning were no laughing matter . |
| 24 | The reasons were the lack of available places and the long distances between home and school . |
| 25 | But the high moorlands , the deep valleys and the long sea inlets , or rias , were obstacles . |
| 26 | As the Scotland fans dispersed in shame , heading for the bars of Soho and the long train journey home , they created one of the country 's most enduring jokes . |
| 27 | The extensive slate quarries , and the long rows of cottages occupied by those who work there , are a strongly-marked feature in the day 's walk ; while many of the walls are entirely composed of slates fixed into the ground and placed upright : in the churchyard many of the tombstones were slate slabs , with painted inscriptions . |
| 28 | In particular , Edwardian reformers believed that labour conditions for adolescents were influential on their social behaviour in both the short and the long run , or , put another way , and taking into account the wider implications of ‘ personality ’ , that labour conditions influenced the form of their social being . |
| 29 | The problem is made more difficult by the expense of education and the long pay-off time involved . |
| 30 | levels of service , quality of product , meeting budgets , cost improvements , productivity , motivating and rewarding staff , research and development , and the long term viability of the undertaking . |