Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [art] long " 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 | Light was admitted during the daytime through the long framed windows fitted with moulded glass , which could be seen stretching from end to end of the van under the cornice . |
| 3 | He felt clear headed enough to tackle the remainder of the long journey north . |
| 4 | The technical crux follows the scrambling : an absorbing pitch working intricately rightwards until thin moves give access to good holds in a short overhanging corner , which ends at the base of a long steepening ramp . |
| 5 | Neile 's particular contribution was the provision of the longest and most powerful telescopes that had been produced in England for Ward 's observatory at Wadham , and these were used by Wren in developing his theory of Saturn 's rings . |
| 6 | Walking around the base of an active cone erupting these bombs is a bit like walking around a battlefield , with spent rounded cannonball bombs and shattered fragments of cannonballs lying around , and many big battered boulders exhibiting the bruises of a long volcanic siege . |
| 7 | Carver as a learned composer , and clearly conversant with some of his English contemporaries , but it was surely worth noting that evidence , however tantalisingly fragmentary , exists to suggest the existence of a long pre-Reformation Scottish tradition of Faburden singing , of which Pater Creator might therefore be a late , indeed consciously crowning example |
| 8 | Buddhists believe that Gautama the Buddha was the successor to a long line of earlier Buddhas , all distinguished by shrewdness , wisdom , love or sacrifice . |
| 9 | I think we must twist his arm to see if he can repeat the trick in the longer time available in one of our winter talks . |
| 10 | Hers is a heartening , moving and ultimately triumphant story — a little victory won against the tide in the long , heart-breaking battle to save our wilderness world . |
| 11 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 12 | For the potentially more dynamic beginner the choice of board can be expanded into the realms of the long ‘ funboard ’ . |
| 13 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
| 14 | Measurements of DNA unwinding of supercoiled plasmid pBR322 DNA by these complexes show that in binding to DNA the platinum atom is covalently bound with the acridine chromophores intercalated adjacent to the metal binding site , or in the case of the longer chain homologues , one base pair removed from this site ( 4 ) . |
| 15 | On Nov. 19 a French court ordered René Bousquet , a former police chief under the Vichy regime , to be tried for war crimes in an ordinary criminal court [ see p. 37899 ] , after overturning a ruling by the prosecutor-general 's office which had sent the case to a long defunct Special High Court of Liberation . |
| 16 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
| 17 | Such an effect is dependent on wage bargaining procedures taking account of the implications of monetary union and it remains to be seen whether this will continue to be the case in the longer term . |
| 18 | Here I hope that I am in the present with the advantage of a long view back as well . |
| 19 | With both at 33 , Cambridge began to draw ahead with the advantage of the long Surrey bend . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Then suddenly he sees Piquet go into a spin and does n't get back into the field for a long time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was a little after ten o'clock by the time the three men gathered in the council chamber over the post office and unrolled the plans on the long oak table . |
| 25 | Happily the other Albert the one with two rather than four legs was in finer fettle , despite a morning spent wrestling with the complexities of a long speech . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | R. W. Francis , butcher of Church St. , Bishop 's Castle , used to buy whinberries in bulk from local pickers , and Plowden Station at the foot of the Long Mynd was an ideal pick up point for these pickers . |
| 28 | For a minute they walked in silence hearing the rustle of the long grasses over their shoes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | With the experience of a long and close association with world class designers , notably German Frers , we have developed a superb range of graceful and seakindly ocean cruising yachts with an emphasis on style and effortless performance . |