Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before him , the ring , if not moribund , had been a dark , sombre corner of sports , best described by the sight of then middleweight king Dick Tiger leaving his beat-up hotel wearing a roomy black Homburg and a long pawnshop overcoat , a black satchel in his hand , heading for the subway and title fight at the Garden . |
| 2 | The Coronary Prevention Group has produced a booklet , ‘ The Case Against Tobacco Advertising ’ , which ASH and a long list of eminent medical organisations endorsed and which has been sent to all MPs . |
| 3 | On Monday we left for Fort William and the long trek up Loch Linnhe . |
| 4 | As the Scotland fans dispersed in shame , heading for the bars of Soho and the long train journey home , they created one of the country 's most enduring jokes . |
| 5 | Despite the inevitable toll of the fight at Stamford Bridge and the long march southwards , Harold 's troops still represented one of the finest forces in Europe . |
| 6 | However , despite constant rain , getting lost around Paris and a long delay on the autobahn due to an accident , 16 hours and 640 miles later we arrived at a motel in Germany . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) Nixon and the Long Withdrawal , 1969–73 |
| 8 | In Andalusia , General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano occupied Seville on 18 July , while General Enrique Varela took the port of Cadiz and a long stretch of coast eastwards as far as Algeciras , close to Gibraltar . |
| 9 | The Association can be justly proud of this project which has provided a fitting memorial for Lord Dowding and a long term investment in much needed welfare accommodation . |
| 10 | Estimates have now been obtained to install a closed circuit television system in both the Myles Meehan and the Long Gallery . |
| 11 | It is a long way from the " careership " proposals of the CBI and a long way , too , from the systematic manner in which those parties argue who would wish to see TECs as the regulators of training and as the godfather of the careers service . |
| 12 | Audley senior was a minor baron , with lands in Gloucestershire as well as Oxfordshire and a long record of service to the Crown . |
| 13 | While Germany as a whole might well be described as a capitalist state with feudal trimmings , Pomerania and the long arm of East Prussia remained feudal with modest capitalist trimmings . |