Example sentences of "[art] long [noun] [prep] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | The longest period for which her mother was left alone was for three hours and Mrs Cahuac worked close by so that should anything happen to her mother during this period she could get home quickly . |
| 2 | The longest period for which an order book can be issued to an asylum seeker who makes a successful application for income support is 20 weeks . |
| 3 | Consequently , although pressure forces are important in collimating gas onto closed orbits , they are unimportant during the long periods in which the gas drifts from one closed orbit to the next . |
| 4 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 5 | In order to simplify the task of explaining how that understanding can be achieved , it will be expedient to consider that the long aeon in which the development of the Created God has taken place can be divided into three periods . |
| 6 | Among their feudal ancestors however the long time during which estates used to continue in the same family sufficiently demonstrated the general disposition of people to live within their income . |
| 7 | Return to the long stroke with which you began in Step 1 . |
| 8 | The point of my remarks was to indicate that the longer timescale on which it is technically feasible to store AGR- and PWR irradiated fuels before reprocessing provides the CEGB with a flexibility not available in the case of magnox fuel . |
| 9 | Surely the threat of a custodial sentence would be a stronger deterrent — as it was before 1988 — in addition to the longer sentences for which the Bill provides . |
| 10 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 11 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 12 | often it involves a long chase in which the relationships between the record company personnel , the artist and the manager can be the deciding factor . |
| 13 | There was then a long delay for which no explanation has been given . |
| 14 | In Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse there is a long passage in which Mrs Ramsay meditates after her child has been put to bed and she is on her own : |
| 15 | A long plateau in which the never-ending surrealism of pain muted down into boredom and there was Jo laughing bravely , veiling her fear and doing great lines from Gone with the Wind in a deplorably bad imitation of a southern black accent . |
| 16 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 17 | There was a long pause during which a kind of stage fright seized me and perhaps him too : we remained in our positions , Richard sitting up in bed and me standing at the window , looking at each other helplessly like actors who have forgotten their lines . |
| 18 | Then there was a long pause during which Sophie drank her coffee and avoided looking at her companion . |
| 19 | After a long while in which she heard nothing but the rasp of charcoal on canvas and the faint distant booming of the sea , he said , ‘ Talk if you want to . |
| 20 | And it was with a certain indifference that , six minutes later , Chelsea hoisted a long ball under which Kerry Dixon loitered . |
| 21 | Even after the Union of the Crowns there remained a long period during which old traditions and suspicions simmered uneasily , and old local enmities flared up at the slightest provocation . |
| 22 | Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) . |
| 23 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 24 | Leah bore him children , but Rachel was barren for a long period during which Jacob had children by her maidservant before she eventually gave birth to Joseph and then Benjamin . |
| 25 | When Anthony Crosland declared that the ‘ party is over , he can not have realized that the Government 's cuts presaged a long period in which the Labour Party itself would be seriously threatened — partly because of its association with supposedly spendthrift urban policies . |
| 26 | Under the latter system arable land was put under grass for a long period after which it was returned to arable . |
| 27 | Eventually the ground seemed to stabilize and there was a long silence during which the mist curled slowly upwards . |
| 28 | There was a long silence during which she tried desperately to think of some further topic of conversation — just to keep him here a little longer . |
| 29 | There was a long silence in which he sat , nodding , before he released his grip . |
| 30 | There was a long silence in which Steve weighed up the situation before speaking . |