Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such associations of sexual deviance and political threat have a long history sedimented into our language and culture . |
| 2 | More generally the idea of the inseparability of cultural and political revolution has a long history within the libertarian tradition with its roots in revolutionary Romanticism . |
| 3 | The assertion that law is unsuitable or unable to deal with family and personal behaviour has a long history . |
| 4 | Humankind and human structures seemed a long way away . |
| 5 | The work of the pre-electric era was the work of preservation : drying and smoking meat , making cheese and hard bread to survive a long winter huddled in a chalet above the animals . |
| 6 | The street was empty and silent and small sounds carried a long way . |
| 7 | To build up an impression of how metal use developed , many and various artefacts covering a long time span need to be examined . |
| 8 | Add this to the illness of Hun Sen , the only member of the Cambodian regime who appears willing to risk his future to give peace a chance , and Cambodian peace looks a long way off . |
| 9 | At the Rutland Forest Eyre in 1269 the verderers , regarders and other jurors presented a long list of indictments of this kind . |
| 10 | The concessions Edward made on matters such as purveyance and unparliamentary taxation went a long way towards meeting the grievances of the commons , and the king was able to mobilize the resources he required for war . |
| 11 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |