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

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1 Leaving Braemore by the A.832 , the long circuit of the Gairloch peninsula commences .
2 The long trend of the 1980s has come to an end , along with the crash of the Tokyo stockmarket in 1990 and the collapse of warrants .
3 The social prerequisite of the long trend in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries towards lower crime and disorder , and greater police acceptance , was the historical process of working-class incorporation .
4 She knew that although the shop stocked a few overalls and smocks and even some children 's clothes and sheepskin jackets , it was the long dresses with their wonderfully romantic feel and yards of material in the skirts , that the cognoscenti came to buy .
5 A recreation city , apparently , for the officers of the garrison at Silcaster , and the legions tramping the long course of Watling Street .
6 Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow .
7 Of course the other major factor that had an impact on policy and practice in the later 1970s was resource constraints — the end of the long expansion of local authority staffing and budgets since 1948 , and of the rapid growth of the early 1970s .
8 Then that would sort of feed itself , but you had to have one man feeding the the scrapping machine and another man with a shovel , pulling away the the the the the the scrapped at the side and then you had to have another man feeding the long hay into the chaff cutter .
9 His arms hardly move at all — just the legs move , and his bare feet on the ground as he jumps up and down , and the long tuft of hair that bounces back and forth over his shoulder .
10 She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon .
11 And in doing so she has proved herself a mightier force than the Palace propaganda machine , which suggested that she might not attend because she was too old and frail to make the long journey to Crathie Church .
12 The long journey to a holy place where they would encounter the divine in a special way was a graphic demonstration of the Christian orientation to God ; the hardships of the road , which rich and poor shared side by side , gave the pilgrims an impressive experience of community , charity and poverty , with its rider : dependence upon God alone .
13 As eighth reserve for the tournament the chances were slim , but he decided to make the long journey to Crooked Stick , Indiana , on the off-chance .
14 Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match .
15 For the long journey to the Pole , they needed a lot of food , and they could n't carry it all with them .
16 ’ And the boy in Toulouse or Poitiers or Bordeaux or Rouen , still secretly anxious about the long journey to the capital , feels his head filling up with snobbery and lust .
17 It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness .
18 Where possible the ore , as has been mentioned , was hand dressed in preparation for the long journey to Keswick .
19 He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect .
20 Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team .
21 Saddest export a convoy of lorries begins the long journey to China and , inset , the furnace as it used to be at the height of production Picture : VIC CLEVELEY
22 Many hundreds of Londoners have moved out into the central south region , opting for a cheaper home at the cost of the long journey to work .
23 Although George had written to Tamar to tell her of Edward 's christening , he had not really expected her and Stephen to make the long journey from Thorsbury .
24 JOE McCall ( Stephens ) made the long journey from Dublin for the opening round of the UCF 's ATB Mountainbike League , sponsored by the Cycle Shop Lisburn , at Tardree Forest Park .
25 Rita is still experiencing some back trouble so we were particularly grateful to her for making the long journey from Newcastle .
26 Up to 600 Bewick swans make the long journey from Russia between October and December and return to Siberia in February .
27 The Six had reverted to Schuman 's view that political union could be achieved in the long run through a sustained effort at economic integration across a broad front .
28 Pétain was also a disciple of attrition , but in an entirely different sense from Joffre and Haig with their inhumanly simple calculations that the Germans could be beaten in the long run through losing man for man , by virtue of the Allied superiority in cannon fodder .
29 But really it is the crew as a whole which counts in the long run on a job like this .
30 France : new orders dried up as the long run of 63 reactors either built or under construction came to an end and the country grappled with the problem of an over-supply of electricity .
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