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

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1 Leaving Braemore by the A.832 , the long circuit of the Gairloch peninsula commences .
2 The long trend of the 1980s has come to an end , along with the crash of the Tokyo stockmarket in 1990 and the collapse of warrants .
3 The social prerequisite of the long trend in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries towards lower crime and disorder , and greater police acceptance , was the historical process of working-class incorporation .
4 The long case clock beside the bar ticked away five seconds .
5 In the upstairs passage she opened the long case clock , knowing very well it was broken , that the weights had not descended for years and the hands remained at twenty to one .
6 A recreation city , apparently , for the officers of the garrison at Silcaster , and the legions tramping the long course of Watling Street .
7 In those days a wing commander engineering officer was still a GD pilot but after the long course ( I think it was at Henlow , on engineering ) they devoted all their energies to full time engineering .
8 Of course the other major factor that had an impact on policy and practice in the later 1970s was resource constraints — the end of the long expansion of local authority staffing and budgets since 1948 , and of the rapid growth of the early 1970s .
9 and the long head is almost a skull ,
10 Then that would sort of feed itself , but you had to have one man feeding the the scrapping machine and another man with a shovel , pulling away the the the the the the scrapped at the side and then you had to have another man feeding the long hay into the chaff cutter .
11 Consider the long tendon that attaches at one end to the muscle flexor digitorum profundus and at its other end to digit 3 .
12 Although the long tendon attaching to digit 3 will develop initially , even though it does not attach to a muscle , it will not persist unless it does attach .
13 Here you put in R star 6 , plus the extension number , and you 'll get that successful switching tone , which hopefully all of you will have experienced before we go , the long beep and short beep , like that .
14 His arms hardly move at all — just the legs move , and his bare feet on the ground as he jumps up and down , and the long tuft of hair that bounces back and forth over his shoulder .
15 Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York .
16 By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday .
17 The long , fast stretch round to our supper halt at my favourite , the Bear Hotel in Crickhowell , slipped by , hardly noticed ; even the long journey home that evening was a doddle .
18 Eleanor told him she understood , kissed him and then left to start the long journey home .
19 Taunton Vale , the Sun Life West League champions , made the long journey north to meet Brooklands with high hopes of regaining the National League place they lost last season .
20 She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon .
21 I had expressed concern that after the long journey , probably spent standing in the corridor , I might look rather haggard , so the wearing of a yashmak was suggested , especially as Leslie would be used to seeing this item of female camouflage in the souks and cafés of North Africa from Alexandria to Algiers .
22 Belle 's sister Lil went with her as a companion for the long journey .
23 Arrival on Nine Standards Rigg is a joyous occasion for Coast to Coast walkers from the Irish Sea to the North Sea , and is the greatest milestone on the long journey .
24 I look at my wife and see the long journey that we have come .
25 Putting on weight as fat deposits — food and fuel for the long journey ahead — their entire bodies become covered with mucus in preparation for the miles of slithering travel .
26 How will you cope with … drawbacks ? ( the long journey , moving house , children 's schools , shift work , weekend work , long hours , frequent foreign travel , or any other drawbacks associated with the job )
27 The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile .
28 Although George had written to Tamar to tell her of Edward 's christening , he had not really expected her and Stephen to make the long journey from Thorsbury .
29 McAdam left for Gibraltar in a Sunderland on the first leg of the long journey home .
30 And in doing so she has proved herself a mightier force than the Palace propaganda machine , which suggested that she might not attend because she was too old and frail to make the long journey to Crathie Church .
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