Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ipswich 's other newcomer , German Andre Pollehn , will also be missing as he is committed to a long track meeting in his own country that day . |
| 2 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 3 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 4 | These regressions indicate that mortality is related to swings in unemployment levels , over and above the improvement in mortality related to the long term trend for disposable incomes to increase . |
| 5 | However , since only the continued path from naming can be matched to a long word , the path from name is discontinued ( without storing the short word he on the word graph ) . |
| 6 | If there are several competing paths , only those paths that can be matched to long words are continued , and a short word will only be retrieved from the buffer if none of the possible paths can be matched to a long word . |
| 7 | Consider for example , that ( Fig. 7.6 ) will be parsed as Europe lie rather than your reply , since is matched to the long word Europe and is matched to lie . |
| 8 | For example , the mixed representation of a brief account , , will be parsed into agree the count , because the first four phonemes can be matched to the long word agree and because there is a possible parsing into words of the remaining phonemes . |
| 9 | Presumably it is an overreaction to a number of points that we have noted : that no logical guarantee of the soundness of our abductive sense can be provided ; that our substantive conception of reality or of the aim of inquiry may itself be revisable ; that while experience might lead us to abandon a theory with some confidence , proper acceptance should be postponed to the long run — true theories are survivors . |
| 10 | The cause of Mr Hemingway 's ‘ uncharacteristic errors ’ — failing to see that the old wire was detached at the fuse end and insulated at the relay end — is attributed to the long hours he worked . |
| 11 | Re-elected to the Long Parliament in 1640 , in which his nephew , Sir John Evelyn of Wiltshire ( 1601–1685 , q.v. ) , sat for Ludgershall , he was ‘ galled ’ at the attacks on the family 's monopoly . |
| 12 | Examples of the latter — attaching new connotations — would be the way musical elements of the bourgeois march were made to connote something different in nineteenth century labour anthems ; or the way the supposedly liberated individualist eclecticism of counter cultural 1960s rock — ‘ liberated ’ in the Marcusian sense — was , in a process of recuperation , re-articulated to the long tradition of bourgeois individual bohemianism . |
| 13 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 14 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 15 | Milner ( 1975 ) has summarised and contributed to the long history of research which demonstrates black children 's denial of their colour ( Clark and Clark , 1947 ) , and their preference for white identity ( Goodman , 1964 ) . |
| 16 | Typical of these is the Welsh three-course rotation : oats , either autumn or spring sown ; followed by mangolds or swedes ; and then barley undersown to a long ley . |
| 17 | Elsewhere in his speech Gladstone specifically referred to the long runs of periodicals in the library as being of interest to him as he could not keep them in his own library . |
| 18 | His shirt hung open as he sat again , and Theda 's eyes were riveted to the long column of his neck , the golden glow of his chest below it . |
| 19 | We were treated to the long diatribes of detailed considerations about the cost of paper clips and God knows what else . |
| 20 | During his years of experimentation , Alexander was led to a long consideration of the whole question of direction . |
| 21 | It was a natural response to the advent of nuclear weapons to concentrate on means of limiting or even abolishing them ; and this response has led to a long series of arms control and disarmament negotiations at Geneva and elsewhere . |
| 22 | It was not easy , even for a German captain , to intervene at this stage , but once he had been subjected to a long discussion and much persuasion , he contacted the SS in Tabiano and managed to have us set free . |
| 23 | Moore was elected to the Long Parliament in 1640 as MP for Liverpool , sitting alongside his uncle , Major-General Ralph Assheton . |
| 24 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 25 | He handed me an eyepiece attached to a long lead and there , through a series of prisms , were my lower intestines in glorious technicolour . |
| 26 | The endoscope , attached to a long probe , is manoeuvred into the statues though the tiny casting holes in the feet of both , through the head of A and the missing eye of B , and its movements controlled by a television monitor . |
| 27 | It therefore urges the Secretary of State to reject this appeal , and in so doing unequivocally confirm the value which is attached to the long term protection of landscape quality in Wales ' National Parks . |
| 28 | After breakfast we continued working until eleven , then returned to the long hut . |
| 29 | He was returned to the Long Parliament for Bury with his son Thomas ; however , in 1642 the younger Thomas openly joined the king at Oxford while Henry fled abroad . |