Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There were other reasons for the long use of the sickle . |
| 2 | Then she ran her fingers through the long strands of her hair , getting rid of the worst of the tangles and flicking it back from her face . |
| 3 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |
| 4 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 5 | While the inherited allele is mutated , the normal allele is subsequently deleted in a somatic , mitotic event involving variable sized fragments of the long arm of chromosome 5 . |
| 6 | Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment . |
| 7 | Funerals were within living memory ceremonial rites engaging whole communities — blinds drawn down across the street , the pomp of plumed horses and the procession of followers , traffic momentarily halted , the bereaved publicly showing their sorrow for months in the long wearing of black afterwards ; monuments and cemeteries were focuses of family and civic pride ; fear of a pauper grave was so powerful that death insurance was by far the most widespread Victorian insurance policy . |
| 8 | Butler and Stokes argue that the main source of new electoral strength for Labour in 1945 was the mobilisation of manual workers who had grown up in homes without a long tradition of participation in electoral politics . |
| 9 | One way to reduce mobility is to offer promises of long-term employment , with the prospect of wage increases rising by promotion steps on a long ladder of continuous employment . |
| 10 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , he condemned that same deluded world for its previous exclusion of Spain from the European Recovery Programme , thereby exacerbating the effects of a long period of exceptionally low rainfall . |
| 12 | At the very moment when Hurd was preparing to unveil the fruits of a long period of gestation in the form of a White Paper on criminal justice , Lawson resigned as Chancellor . |
| 13 | Although mineral rights are generally held by the surface landowner , they may have been retained by a previous landowner when the surface freehold was sold , particularly in areas with a long history of mining such as South-west England . |
| 14 | The Teleuts , however , had been sovereign in their own domains for a long period before the Russians arrived on the scene . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , as discussed in section 5.2.1 , the eurobond market 's development in London can be attributed to prior development of the eurocurrency market , London 's overall infrastructure as a financial centre , the innovative merchant banks with a long tradition of intermediating financial flows , and the comparatively relaxed regulatory and fiscal regime . |
| 16 | Even parts of series , e.g. Sir William Jardine 's Natural History of Humming Birds , in two small volumes from the long series of The Naturalists ' Library in forty volumes , can fetch £100 or over . |
| 17 | I sit on a rock and listen to the water lap and the boys whistle as they pull their tin boats across the long sweep of the stony bay . |
| 18 | What really moved the men was the ignition of the class war , the excitement of climbing out of the trenches for the long march against the class enemy . |
| 19 | The people began to recover from the horrors of the long war with Chaos and for a while the population grew . |
| 20 | They are intimately connected with breaks in the long profile of the streams . |
| 21 | Pantaleone , one of four eighteenth-century commedia dell-arte figures in the Long Garden at Cliveden |
| 22 | Certainly , he can enjoy the outcome for a day or two , but there is still a question mark over dealings in the longer term on the all-important economy , with the rivalry between the trading blocs dictating how ‘ special ’ the ‘ relationship ’ is likely to remain . |
| 23 | In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League . |
| 24 | In these respects , there has been a general and continuing decline in prison conditions over a long period of time ( King and McDermott , 1999 ) . |
| 25 | These were the patients with non-acute surgical conditions on the long waiting-list for non-acute — i.e . |
| 26 | My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success . |
| 27 | My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success . |
| 28 | The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust . |
| 29 | This may apply to a particular period or it may be concerned with changes over a long period of time . |
| 30 | Simulation has been used to predict population changes over a long period of time and for charting space-satellite trajectories . |