Example sentences of "the [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 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
5 | Here I hope that I am in the present with the advantage of a long view back as well . |
6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
7 | Then suddenly he sees Piquet go into a spin and does n't get back into the field for a long time . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Ramblers are angry that a golf clubhouse is being built across the route of a long distance footpath . |
20 | Indeed , sometimes the original participants would leave in the course of a long recording session . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | In the course of a long lifetime , his bold concept was proved an amazing success . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 : |
26 | 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 . |
27 | The England manager , upset by the way his comments were interpreted after the European championship , has gone on record as saying that he is mis-understood , that he can not shake off the association with the long ball game from his formative years at Watford . |
28 | By the embers of the fire in the grate of the long kitchen , the burly man had been asleep in a chair . |
29 | Tweed , the Liberal election agent , ‘ knew … that it was not illness or the tedium of a long convalescence which kept him out , but that his heart was not in it and that confronted with the serried ranks of vested interests which compose this new Government , his sympathies were as always with the bottom dogs … ' |
30 | If this analysis is accepted , then it is clear that the attempt over a long period of time to protect the position of those living in privately rented accommodation has failed and has , in fact , made the position worse . |