Example sentences of "to a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly one of the best ways the overseas student has of seeing what is required in British theatre training is to apply for one of the summer schools offered by the drama schools , and find out what it 's all about before committing him- or herself to a long and expensive stay . |
| 2 | Henry passed her some thin , crustless brown bread and butter and listened to a long story about fox-hunting . |
| 3 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 4 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 5 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |
| 6 | As an Irish prime minister once said after listening to a long debate between his cabinet colleagues : ‘ I understand how it works in practice . |
| 7 | Mr Johnston said this week 's reform talks were no more than the overture to a long debate that would run into the winter and become embroiled in GATT negotiations . |
| 8 | Emily guided Mungo through a gate at the side which led to a long , overgrown garden with a large , unsteady-looking wooden shed at the bottom . |
| 9 | Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape . |
| 10 | Actually it is wrong to think that your present diet will necessarily lead to a long and productive life . |
| 11 | You sometimes hear people say that it is not worth eating differently , or getting to the right weight ; they say they prefer a short and happy life to a long and miserable one . |
| 12 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic , but his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses that had obviously known better days . |
| 13 | But his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses which obviously had known better days . |
| 14 | Then they are playing a semi-blind second shot to a long narrow green , where deft perfection is crucial . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 17 | The company were unable to sell the redundant equipment and finally had to resort to paying for it to be broken up and taken away for scrap : a sad end to a long and honourable career . |
| 18 | By the early 1950s the saw milling business had moved elsewhere and the site had become a scrapyard , a sad and unsightly end to a long and varied career . |
| 19 | Vic threads the tunnels , switches lanes , swings out on to a long covered ramp that leads to a six-lane expressway thrust like a gigantic concrete fist through the backstreets of his boyhood . |
| 20 | The Bethnal Greeners of the 1950s who believed that to live together was an invitation to ‘ open conflict ’ belonged to a long tradition . |
| 21 | I found this vaguely reassuring ; a short , sharp death seemed preferable to a long , slow chewing underwater . |
| 22 | Viciously beaten and sexually abused , he sustained series injury leading to a long round of hospitals , major brain surgery and permanent disability . |
| 23 | Typical of these is the Welsh three-course rotation : oats , either autumn or spring sown ; followed by mangolds or swedes ; and then barley undersown to a long ley . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had a narrow mournful face , tapering to a long pointed chin . |
| 26 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 27 | During his years of experimentation , Alexander was led to a long consideration of the whole question of direction . |
| 28 | This confusion is partly due to any difficulty we find in accepting that the solution to a long standing problem could be so simple ; confusion may also arise because , being influenced by the pace of today 's world , we presume that we are doing something wrong when we do not achieve immediate results . |
| 29 | All that now remains is a single tower , a poor monument to a long history of noble residences on the site . |
| 30 | 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 . |