Example sentences of "of [art] long [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 The guilt she felt in depriving him of any pleasure was like a stitch in her side , yet the thought of the long day and the long drive were beyond acceptance .
2 A member of the Bouchier family served under Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold , and later in the reign of Charles I , Sir John Bouchier was a member of the Long Parliament and one of those responsible for the King 's death .
3 His private papers , which include a diary of the first year of the Long Parliament and copies of his speeches , are contained among the Tanner manuscripts .
4 The mid 70s soccer hooligan of fact and fable would most likely have some approximation of the long back and sides , short top & fringe .
5 Like the long spade , the graft has a rounded blade but this is longer than that of the long spade and the taper is sharper .
6 ENGLISH law governing remedies for interference with goods is exceedingly technical , partly because of the long survival and overlap of a number of different heads of liability and partly because the law , though tortious in form , is largely proprietary in function .
7 At this moment a lion bursts out of the long grass and bush and leaps on a warrior .
8 The heads of insects are broadly divisible into three types ( Fig. 6 ) depending on the inclination of the long axis and the position of the mouthparts .
9 I leaned forward , put my thumb under my lip and jerked it up to give him a close-up view of the long gash and the trailing blood-stained ends of the stitches .
10 Because of the long gestation and lactation periods , the interval between calving is usually at least two or three years .
11 What the Edwardians called ‘ boy-life ’ had its own kind of ‘ clubbable ’ logic whether amongst the ‘ Old Boys ’ of the Long Room or on the terraces of Old Trafford .
12 Bergson turned from the bank of screens that took up one whole wall of the long room and got up from his chair .
13 The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations .
14 It was said that on the first occasion that a female student ‘ scrubbed ’ with him he was reaching the end of a long case and held up the piece of cat-gut slung under the ureter ( to identify it and keep it safe during the dissection ) , saying ‘ Cut ! ’
15 Riskless and pure discount debentures , shares , calls and puts may now be combined as follows : The right-hand side of the above equation , the combination of a long share and a purchased put , is a manufactured purchased call .
16 The cost of a long weekend or midweek mini-break in a two-bedroomed , self-catering villa at Elveden Forest begins at £159 and £138 respectively .
17 It took a hell of a long time but learn we did .
18 But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction .
19 MUR ON TIG WON The disagreeable experience of listening to oneself in the middle of a long speech and neither understanding what one is saying nor enjoying the manner in which it is being said ; a foreign accent ; a lion breaking wind after the evening repast
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