Example sentences of "a [noun sg] with long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was walking very rapidly , far faster than Shiva was going in the opposite direction , from a building with long windows and white-uniformed men and girls behind them that looked like a lab , towards the main block . |
| 2 | The Route Impériale was laid out by Napoleon , the First this time , for strategic rather than aesthetic purposes , but it is a delight , a quiet , curly road along a ridge with long vistas of farms and moor land to the east , and of more farms , villages and cultivation to the west . |
| 3 | Two lovely new designs from Nina Miklin , a cardigan with long sleeves in fine mohair which makes an ideal cover-up for cool evenings and a short version in 100% cotton for a sporty day look . |
| 4 | It was rather unusual , he thought , to see a girl with long hair hanging loose . |
| 5 | On the fifth , and top shelf , my books told me stories about a girl with long hair , a strange little man with a funny name and two children and a witch . |
| 6 | Erm , what 's a danger with long formulae ? |
| 7 | The model predicts that as time passes these individuals expect to move into a job with longer duration , ceteris paribus , as one would expect ( see footnote 3 ) . |
| 8 | Primarily the body has been dressed in a blouse with long sleeves and tightly buttoned cuffs ; over this is a simple shift with integral hood , drawn back to show the features . |
| 9 | Irradiating a surface with long wave ( 340–380 nm ) ultraviolet light : no fluorescence should be visible . |
| 10 | A policewoman with long experience in dealing with sexual abuse did express the opinion that policemen can sometimes be more effective than women in encouraging very young male victims to talk about their experiences : and this policewoman was in favour of male colleagues joining her at the RUC 's specialist sexual abuse unit . |
| 11 | But you do come to a limit with long sentences . |
| 12 | One human was a man with long hair . |
| 13 | ‘ He was a middle-aged guy and I was beginning to think that he never saw a guy with long hair before . |