Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jennie told Katharine to perform a 10m circle in the corner of the school , which helps bend the horse correctly , and then to shoulder-in up the long side . |
| 2 | Ten minutes after the tail lights of the stolen Cadillac had dwindled to nothingness up the long straight highway , Curtis pulled into the deserted forecourt of the isolated gas station . |
| 3 | The two main sets of circumstances to which the Act is normally applied relate first to mental disorder and secondly to self-neglect over a long period . |
| 4 | Young people , the unemployed and women returning to work after a long period at home will have to show extra ingenuity to extract evidence of their work skills and potential from their life history . |
| 5 | To birdie with a long par-4 coming up was a great bonus when he might have expected to bogey . |
| 6 | Grain has always been important as an indicator of national well-being and prosperity , with bulging granaries more important to security in the long term than the missile silos which often share the same farmlands . |
| 7 | Enid 's response to the ‘ Coping with Depression ’ article was very positive , and this is usually predictive of a good response to counselling in the long term ( Fennell and Teasdale , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 9 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 10 | These were back to back on the long side-walls each with their Habitat anglepoise , Roland 's black , Val 's rose-pink . |
| 11 | Fatigue fractures , by their very nature , are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time . |
| 12 | This logic has the advantage that it protects the more efficient contractor and exposes the less efficient and is thus conducive to efficiency in the long run . |
| 13 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 14 | He wanted to lie down in front of the fire and go to sleep for a long , long time . |
| 15 | They conclude that the available evidence points to employment in the long run shifting out of the primary sector into both the manufacturing and the service sectors . |
| 16 | Whether antibiotics could be a satisfactory alternative to surgery in the long term is unclear ; some studies show possible short term benefits . |
| 17 | This can be important both in achieving agreement on prices in the short run , and in preventing the development of excess capacity , which can pose a serious threat to collusion in the long run . |
| 18 | The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time . |
| 19 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |
| 20 | Once there , he held on to power for a long time , easily in successive periods of government , with unusual difficulty in opposition . |
| 21 | In 1979 , when it came to power after a long and vicious civil war the new government detained between 7,000 and 8,000 former members of the National Guard . |
| 22 | Everyone who sets out to attack a pensioner should know that if he is caught , he will go to prison for a long time . |