Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fighting cast a long shadow over the UN peace-keeping operation in Croatia , where the first infantry units arrived over the weekend . |
| 2 | In simple terms the first questions a bank would ask were : has the business got a long term future ? |
| 3 | Well backed after catching the eye previously , he strolled home by 12 lengths , having his race won a long way out . |
| 4 | The idea was , why has a giraffe got a long neck ? |
| 5 | French revolutionary experience cast a long shadow over the early and middle nineteenth century , in the aftermath of the 1789 — 93 overthrow of the ancien régime , and the successive coups and counter-coups of 1830 , 1848 — 51 and 1870 — 1 . |
| 6 | Lamarckism assumed that as an animal developed a longer neck or bigger muscles or something like that , through practice , it could pass these on to its , to its progeny . |
| 7 | The earlier failure of East Suffolk organising-tutor scheme cast a long shadow over the discussion between Jacques and martin Wilson , the new Secretary of Education . |
| 8 | The Principal responded initially by agreeing to redesignate courses as full-time , and explaining that the Academic Board had come into existence after departments had been constructed to match DipTech requirements , but had in fact gone a long way towards the Council 's view — further than the report on the June quinquennial visit had acknowledged . |