Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It liked the fact that the chef there , Jean-Yves Gueho , was actually French — as opposed to Swiss , German or Chinese ; and that the long dining room , decorated with glass cupolas , achieved an ecclesiastical dignity . |
| 2 | But more immediately it reminds us that the imperial invaders played the role of the Persians ; that Barbarossa 's efforts systematically to reduce the cities of the north — and less systematically , those of Tuscany and Umbria — led to the formation of the First Lombard League ; and that the long struggle with the Hohenstaufen was one of the preludes to the formation of the civic empires which dominated late medieval Italy . |
| 3 | I wished that I could talk well , and could continue this conversation until animosity was dissipated and we could all stand on some common ground , but I knew enough to admit that this would n't happen , and that the longer the talk went on the further apart we should all grow . |
| 4 | The fact that obligations of kinship and personal lordship , and the justice of the feud , were extremely effective methods of control in the localities of early modem Scotland naturally carried little conviction for societies who prided themselves on having advanced beyond these things ; and since a long historiographical tradition has much preferred kings who reduced the powers of their aristocracies , and signed their account books , the Scottish monarchy , whose power rested on quite different things , has not attracted much praise . |
| 5 | There are occasions when after a long and difficult dig , and when a long time has elapsed before the recovery of the ferret and rabbit , you may discover that your ferret has scraped at the hindquarters of the rabbit for so long that it has broken the skin , drawn blood and started to eat the rabbit before it died . |
| 6 | He cried bitterly all day , and when the long night came , he spread his little hands over his eyes to shut out the darkness , and tried to sleep . |
| 7 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 8 | The house was called Gibbet Hall ; not because this was the name the Swift family had chosen but because a long time ago enemy prisoners had been tied to the tree outside the front gate and threatened with hanging . |
| 9 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 10 | But whereas the long version sustains a note of quiet confidence in the efficacy of penitential meditation on the Passion to enable this , the short version uses literary resources to embody a horrifying sense of what it means to be trapped in the body of this death ( sin ) contrasted to the life in love to be embraced in Christ where death has no actual dominion . |
| 11 | The British government attempted to extradite Bourke for his part in helping Blake escape but after a long legal wrangle this was rejected by the Irish courts . |
| 12 | But after a long moment Alexei stepped back , his hands loose at his sides . |
| 13 | In those days a wing commander engineering officer was still a GD pilot but after the long course ( I think it was at Henlow , on engineering ) they devoted all their energies to full time engineering . |
| 14 | It was n't always possible , but when the long winter vacations of his university came , it was hard , if not impossible to resist . |
| 15 | But when the long hard Chinese winter was nearly over , the villagers began to come to the house of Dai Huang . |