Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where possible the ore , as has been mentioned , was hand dressed in preparation for the long journey to Keswick . |
| 2 | There were other reasons for the long use of the sickle . |
| 3 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
| 4 | THE FOLLOWING day is Saturday , and the Inspirals rise at some unearthly hour for the long drive to San Francisco . |
| 5 | Strip off the longest set of letters from the end of the word which matches a ( usually small ) set of standard suffixes . |
| 6 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 7 | He must have saved up his pocket money for a long time in order to buy one of Uncle Philip 's masks . |
| 8 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt good when I returned in March after a long absence from the game with a knee injury . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt good when I returned in March after a long absence from the game with a knee injury . |
| 11 | Similarly , events arising out of long-standing difficulties would increase risk of depression : where , for instance , a husband left home after years of arguing and discord ; a child was arrested for burglary after a long history of behavioural problems at home and school ; or a substantial fine was incurred after a long period of extreme financial difficulty ( Brown et al. , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Pechorin is a cold-hearted , stylish fatalist , experimentalist , existentialist and divided man , a traveller , gambler , heart-breaker and forgetter of old friends , who loves to ride ‘ a spirited horse through the long grass against a desert wind ’ . |
| 15 | She had looked at Sylvie for a long time before speaking . |
| 16 | Love and pride shone from her enormous black eyes as , ever tender , she lifted her grandson and held him against her grubby sweater for a long moment before returning him to his crib . |
| 17 | — FIT-AGAIN striker Andrew Fletcher is set to be recalled to Scarborough 's side for the long trip to Maidstone on Saturday . |
| 18 | We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar . |
| 19 | All of them were ready for action after the long period of training , but when they arrived they found that a gale had brewed up . |
| 20 | Li , a veteran of the Long March of 1934-35 and a commander of the Red Army prior to its revolutionary victory in 1949 , was a self-taught economist from a peasant family . |
| 21 | Consequently many Greek writers of the fifth century and later realized that their own society was the end-product of a long period of advance . |
| 22 | The incorporation of a long passage from a Board of Education memo on evening schools indicates that the Committee feels itself to be in consonance with the Board " s thinking , not only on the inadequacies of vocational education , but also on the value of English as a force for cultural nationalization . |
| 23 | The Royal Fine Art Commission , while regretting the loss of the long facade by Kirkland , felt that a tall building was needed to act as a gateway from the M8 . |
| 24 | The funeral , attended by President Turgut Özal , was the result of a long campaign for the rehabilitation of Menderes , led by the ruling Motherland Party and the opposition True Path Party . |
| 25 | In the Netherlands , as a result of a long history of legislative enactment in socio-economic affairs and close involvement of unions and employers with government in this area the two national employers ' confederations ( denominational and non-denominational ) also carry somewhat greater weight than their member associations . |
| 26 | In reality , of course , they are the result of a long chain of conscious decision making . |
| 27 | In any case , a study of neolithic Early Minoan buildings very strongly implies that the temples were not an implant but the result of a long period of indigenous development . |
| 28 | By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development . |
| 29 | It is a result of a long process of appraisal which is influenced by self evaluation as well as evaluation by others . |
| 30 | Professor John in a seminal article stressed the great importance of the coincidence of a modest rate of population growth , putting no general pressure on a food supply expanded by a generation of agricultural improvement , with the bounty of a long period of good harvests . |