Example sentences of "as a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 2 | We regard nationalisation of the land for all but its existing use ( which is what nationalisation of development rights means ) as a long step towards the nationalisation of the land itself . |
| 3 | Torrijos seized power four years later , vowing to put an end to what was perceived as a long era of national humiliation . |
| 4 | The company , headed by Lord Sharp , said the talks centred on China International Investment and Trust ( CITIC ) acquiring a ‘ significant minority interest ’ as a long term investment . |
| 5 | Russia 's history can be read as a long battle with geography and climate . |
| 6 | Also higher property transfer taxes and commision rates make selling a house a much less attractive option in Europe so people tend to treat a house as a long term home rather than as an investment . |
| 7 | The grass is either permanent or it remains for several years as a long ley . |
| 8 | D. Each year the farmers plough only a few of their fields , but they do this in a slow rotation , leaving the sown grass for several years , as a long ley . |
| 9 | She seemed , some kicks and a punch , as a long time stirring . |
| 10 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 11 | When I was at school and university in the 1960s , when the myth of progress was still very much alive , my social and political lessons tended to recite the advances of the century as a long list of linear progress : the gradual emergence from primitivism to modern civilisation . |
| 12 | In the second-half the Dragons had a strong wind at their backs and almost made good use of it straight away as a long ball found McClean and his shot was pushed round by Westwood . |
| 13 | The skeleton exhibits several dinosaurian hallmarks , such as a long deltopectoral crest on the humerus , reduction of the outer digits of the hand ( Fig. 2 ) , and an ascending process on the astragalus . |
| 14 | Also within the /a/ system , however , there is a high incidence of back varieties of /a/ : in BV , this vowel is realized in certain following consonantal environments as a long , back vowel , which is in many contexts virtually identical to RP ( as in RP dance , bath ) ; on a superficial view we may therefore be tempted to believe that speakers are adopting this external norm . |
| 15 | It appeared , coming across the desert , as a long trail of dust . |
| 16 | The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record . |
| 17 | Then linking trills as a long confident run |
| 18 | A song that we hear as a long light squeal . |
| 19 | As seen , Lord Greene M.R. in the Wednesbury case conceived of unreasonableness in its substantive sense , as a long stop and a fairly extreme one at that : if an exercise of discretion successfully negotiated the hurdles of improper purpose and relevancy it could still be invalidated on the altar of substantive unreasonableness if it was so unreasonable that no reasonable body could reach such a decision . |
| 20 | First , the very fact that this standard of review is so limited means that it will only serve as a long stop to catch extreme examples of aberrant administrative behaviour . |
| 21 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 22 | During the past year we have continued to play a full part for the UK government in the international research effort which pursues nuclear fusion as a long term energy option . |
| 23 | He pulled her into his arms , pressing her close as a long , shuddering sigh rippled through her body . |
| 24 | Alternatively , try to find the sort of rectangular table that can also double as a long desk or work table when required . |
| 25 | Its the culmination of a career that began as a long shot . |
| 26 | As a long shot — just in case Lucretia Grant owned two homes — she also checked the name of Grant . |
| 27 | And this states erm that Its effectiveness erm must be must be considered as a long term rather than a short term objective . |
| 28 | To include any such anticipatory provision has the merit of bringing home to the individual partners the importance of viewing their involvement in the firm as a long term commitment , which may serve to reduce , if not to eliminate , the pain felt if and when a cash call has to be made . |
| 29 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 30 | Ultimately they 're still keeping land reform as a long term objective cos that 's |