Example sentences of "to [art] long [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That owes much to the long prosperity of California 's economy and its ( until now ) robust property market . |
| 5 | Mrs García 's perfect reception of a press briefing taking place halfway around the world is testament to the long reach of Televisa 's ECO network . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead . |
| 8 | I merely wish to draw attention to the long chain of wrongly dated groups of pottery , each in turn dependent on the other , all the result of the false assumption that a few coins were contemporary with this deposit , whereas they were either residual or still in circulation , and in neither case have a relevance in establishing a terminus post quem . |
| 9 | The counts were made in one , arbitrary , direction ( corresponding to the long axis of the fragment ) and transitions involving short-wave cones were excluded . |
| 10 | Generally speaking , however , in normal flight the wing ( or coupled wings ) moves in a path such that a point on its surface describes an irregular loop or an elongate figure-of-eight with respect to the wing-base , the long axis of the plane of vibration being inclined at an angle to the long axis of the insect ( Fig. 38 ) while the angle at which the surface of the wing is held changes throughout the cycle . |
| 11 | Views from the battlements and wall-walks are truly panoramic — the high peaks of Snowdonia are just one ingredient in a scene which extends across the waters of Tremadog Bay , to the long arm of the Lleyn Peninsula . |
| 12 | She caught worldwide attention last year when she claimed in a defence of prostitution charges that she could only satisfy a sex addiction by selling herself to the long line of men . |
| 13 | Lawrence James 's The Iron Duke adds yet another to the long list of books written by various authors about the 1st Duke over the last 150 years or so . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't add acquisitiveness to the long list of my sins . |
| 15 | In this study a 400-element array was used to represent a rectangular plate in plane strain , loaded only at its four corners by forces parallel to the longer dimension of the plate . |
| 16 | The fourth rectangle , starting from the third , is moved 1 cm on an axis normal to the longer dimension of the third rectangle and then rotated 45 degrees anti-clockwise about its highest corner . |
| 17 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 18 | All that now remains is a single tower , a poor monument to a long history of noble residences on the site . |
| 19 | Influenced by a wide range of illustrators and painters , from William Blake to Chagall , his work introduces the young reader to a long tradition of Western art . |
| 20 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 21 | During his years of experimentation , Alexander was led to a long consideration of the whole question of direction . |
| 22 | Immediately beyond , a short lane leads up to a long terrace of cottages built to house the workers of the Millthrop woollen mill nearby across the river , and looking rather forlorn and out of place since their source of employment was destroyed by fire many years ago . |
| 23 | ‘ And if Carole Swan were here , ’ said Mrs Cartwright , adding a petits four to a long meal of wrong-doing , ‘ she would be able to tell you about what he did to her daughter Grace . |
| 24 | King Edward VII and his Consort , Alexandra , were able to influence international events , particularly in Europe , which continued to be the predominant continent and Britain looked forward to a long period of peaceful influence . |
| 25 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 26 | It was to lead to a long period of self-confessed misery for her , including beatings by her tranquilliser-addicted mother and spells of being locked naked with her sister in cupboards . |
| 27 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 28 | But if we turn to consider the [ … ] supply price with reference to a long period of time , we shall find that it is governed by a different set of causes , and with different results . |
| 29 | Buddhists believe that Gautama the Buddha was the successor to a long line of earlier Buddhas , all distinguished by shrewdness , wisdom , love or sacrifice . |
| 30 | A group of chandlers stood next to a long line of gutted pigs , arguing with their owner about the price of the fat which they would buy to make tallow candles . |