Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The function of these forceful propulsive waves seems chiefly that of shifting a relatively large quantity of intraluminal content aborally for long distances within the colonic lumen , thereby determining a right-to-left gradient important for the initiation of defecation . |
| 2 | The 20-mile chalk stream has dwindled to a trickle , and it dried up altogether for long periods in the past three drought years , after the drilling of six drinking water boreholes by the Thames Water Authority ( now the Thames Water company ) lowered the water table . |
| 3 | Comparison with experimental results for poly ( methyl acrylate ) shows validity only for longer values of the relaxation and retardation times . |
| 4 | She would go off alone for long walks over the cliffs — something she had never done before in winter . |
| 5 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 6 | And Gooch had agreed to tour India this winter only after long discussions at home . |
| 7 | The compromise list was put together after long hours of high drama when Mr Pozsgay , a minister of state and the leading reformer , and two of his close allies threatened to walk out . |
| 8 | But Virginia Woolf 's mature novels consist almost entirely of long passages of introspection by the characters in free indirect style , punctuated by banal conversational remarks and parenthetical reports of trivial actions . |
| 9 | Lesley-Jane , perhaps from long experience of having her mother going on about her or perhaps just from exhaustion , did not seem to be listening . |
| 10 | Summer gales were rarely of long duration in our experience , and if it blew really hard we used to snug down in the lee of one of the many anchorages and take to the hills for a change . |
| 11 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 12 | He turned away , apparently satisfied , then pushed the glasses back into his pocket , flashed the torch briefly down at the rough stones of the pier , and went away with long strides in the direction of the house . |
| 13 | High rocky cliffs pitted with little sandy coves melt away into long stretches of silvery beach . |
| 14 | The most obvious clue to its presence is its movement , so in order for its camouflage to work it must be prepared to remain very still for long periods of time , or at least to alter its position very slowly and gently . |
| 15 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 16 | He believed that the surface of the earth changed gradually over long periods of time , and saw that such changes would have an effect not only upon the physical environment to which living things were exposed , but upon the possibility of migration to new locations . |
| 17 | Other specialist methods of capture including the shrimp , or push , net , the drop-net , and rod and line fishing with barbless hooks , will be dealt with in a later article , as will the special methods of transporting the captives home on long journeys on a hot summer 's day , which present special problems , which need to be overcome . |
| 18 | Athenian style temples and halls were built by the Welland , probably with long colonnades of beautiful fluted Doric columns carved by Greek masons in the local limestone . |
| 19 | The walls were lined with bookshelves , each shelf crammed with books , mostly in long sets of leather-bound volumes that looked as if they had not been read , or touched , or even dusted for a very long time . |
| 20 | One of the difficulties in the procedure for the institutions was the constraint on planning of not knowing — often for long periods of time — when or whether courses would be able to begin , or even whether they would be allowed to continue . |
| 21 | Chapter 5 constitutes a rather tedious juxtaposition of " the most popular things in popular fiction " , as it consists mainly of long lists of those ingredients that have the highest frequency in popfiction . |
| 22 | He believed that reality was best approached through work or its cessation , whether in the shape of miners in the Borinage , labourers digging streets in The Hague , the poor waiting submissively in long lines in soup kitchens , or old men in broken top hats walking through the gates of almshouses . |
| 23 | It took the puritan fanatics to destroy these high spirits and mockery , which led inevitably to long periods of repression with its back-street prostitution of women and young boys , one of the many ‘ hidden ’ elements in Victorian society and , what was equally lamentable , the denial of the rightful place of women in society . |
| 24 | Second , there must be a constant supply of water to the sward even during long spells of dry weather . |
| 25 | The whole incident was a very sore point with my crew , who had worked very hard for long hours on this one , and it was a classic illustration of how our laws often seem to lean over backwards to protect the lawbreakers . |
| 26 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 27 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 28 | Big business or some trade unions , for example , seem to have exercised power consistently over long periods of time . |
| 29 | WITH the approach of Memorial Day , the official start of summer , all right-thinking Americans are looking forward to long days at the beach . |
| 30 | But aside from this there are ample remedies to ensure that the Director 's powers are not abused , either at long range through the medium of judicial review , or in a more peremptory manner through the power of the trial judge to ensure that the conduct of the trial is fair . |