Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was suspended during the Long Parliament in the middle of the seventeenth century but was restored by the Clergy Act 1661 . |
| 32 | Under RSC Ord 3 , r3 they may be served during the Long Vacation including the month of August . |
| 33 | During the long ministry of Lord North ( 1770–82 ) he seemed for a time to have achieved this objective . |
| 34 | Both the unity of the Cabinet and its independence of the king began to be unmistakably and effectively asserted only after the end of this period , during the long premiership of the younger William Pitt ( 1783–1801 ) . |
| 35 | The tip-tap of her own heels on the pavement was Bridget 's only company during the long walk through the bleak back doubles . |
| 36 | Not for the last time during the long process of negotiation with the GPRA , de Gaulle himself seemed depressed by the impasse . |
| 37 | Once over the peak , during the long decline towards Fort Augustus , the troops would also have been highly vulnerable to bombardment , before reaching an even more dangerous point , a ravine crossed by a bridge . |
| 38 | At this point the husband , who had not moved once during his wife 's burial — not even during the long wait for the priest — suddenly fainted to the ground and had to have cold water thrown over him . |
| 39 | Meredith felt the memory freeze her bones , remembering how she 'd comforted her paralysed grandmother during the long wait for the ambulance , knowing this was her third heart attack . |
| 40 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 41 | He was born Lothar dei Conti of Segni in 1160 or 1161 during the long reign of Pope Alexander III . |
| 42 | During the long period of her recovery , Dawn understandably had bouts of severe depression , so at one stage she was referred to a clinical psychologist for counselling . |
| 43 | The chapters of this book recount the way in which Home Secretaries from both of the main parties handled their assignments between 1947–79 and , in more detail , during the long period of Conservative Administration between 1979–92 . |
| 44 | During the long period of growth , management had gradually stripped production workers of responsibility for product quality and process operations by creating an elaborate technical hierarchy . |
| 45 | This sister , Elisabeth , was to count for a good deal in Nietzsche 's later life , favourably and otherwise : she eventually became the custodian of all his surviving works during the long period of incapacity that preceded his death and continued in that influential role , which she executed in a highly questionable way , for thirty-five years afterwards . |
| 46 | I left him in charge of the whole of my affairs during my absence from England , with a perfect conviction that he would zealously exert himself for my interest , and the confidence I reposed in him has been fully realised , not only during my absence , but during the long period of eighteen years . ’ |
| 47 | In South America , too , there were no true dogs or cats during the long period of isolation that we are discussing but , as in Australia , there were marsupial equivalents . |
| 48 | This is often impossible to obtain , however , as many of the torture techniques leave few visible injuries , or only superficial injuries which disappear during the long period in police custody . |
| 49 | In addition we were treated to several interesting idiosyncrasies of the East Anglian scene , such as the long platform at Cambridge station , with its odd method of working . |
| 50 | Israel 's history must be read as the long story of her attempts to fulfil her responsibilities — with some successes , but with many conspicuous failures . |
| 51 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 52 | France : new orders dried up as the long run of 63 reactors either built or under construction came to an end and the country grappled with the problem of an over-supply of electricity . |
| 53 | Er now , on another topic , I will go back to the idea of regulation later , you 'll see that life expectancy is obviously important and er when you 're looking at retirement I mean it 's always been described as the longest holiday of your life and it certainly is that , and life expectancy is rising all the time , these figures have actually been superseded . |
| 54 | LIVERPUDLIAN professional golfer Karl ‘ Hitman ’ Woodward ( 42 ) , was today aiming to establish his claim as the longest driver in the world . |
| 55 | The delay between the long decline of death rates and that of birth rates yielded considerable ‘ natural increase ’ over much of the century . |
| 56 | It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people . |
| 57 | Now in terms of the cr the need for development , I 'm sure the panel will have read all the evidence which has been put in about the long history of the varying impact studies o on development on around Greater York , and those date back of course to the February eighty nine report which I I think you 'll have seen copies of . |
| 58 | D.G. Rossetti did not have a Christian conscience , but he was not immune from a sense of guilt about the long deferment of his marriage to his model and mistress , Lizzy Siddal . |
| 59 | ’ And the boy in Toulouse or Poitiers or Bordeaux or Rouen , still secretly anxious about the long journey to the capital , feels his head filling up with snobbery and lust . |
| 60 | But this had been an attempt to land on the Spanish Main , and the Spanish felt much less concerned about the long string of small islands in the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean . |