Example sentences of "[adj] for [art] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation .
2 But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something .
3 It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate .
4 Andrew , is there a feature in this plan called waiver of premium , what these means to you is that if you 're off ill for a long period of time , through accident , ill-health , whatever , Abbey will actually still pay them for you , until you 're well again .
5 Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain .
6 I was very unhappy for a long time after that .
7 " It is a woman you will be then , Sara Hussey , " she whispered to herself , and lay awake for a long time after , watching a narrow strip of moonlight creep slowly across the wall .
8 Which of you is responsible for the long periods of separation , or are they merely dictated by your careers ? ’
9 This view remained dominant for a long time in sociology , but more recently other sociologists have become reluctant to view people as happy robots , acting out predetermined roles .
10 As Mittwoch ( 1990 : 125 ) points out , however , the fact that historically make vacillated for a long time between to and zero ( cf. the biblical He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ) calls for a deeper explanation of why the bare infinitive won out .
11 She wore a light silk dress and thin shoes , which did not seem at all suitable for a long walk in the snow .
12 The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography .
13 Leah bore him children , but Rachel was barren for a long period during which Jacob had children by her maidservant before she eventually gave birth to Joseph and then Benjamin .
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