Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most importantly , the folded state of the subunit is stabilized by extensive van der Waals interactions and hydrogen bonds between the unusually long helices of R2 . |
| 2 | This is elicited , after the very long delay of 400 msec , by the visual presentation of a semantically improbable word ( for example , the word ‘ socks ’ in ‘ He spread the warm bread with socks ’ ) . |
| 3 | The extended families are split up as the men move first , to be followed only after a fairly long interval by wives and children and often never by other relatives . |
| 4 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 5 | After an immensely long period of feeble luminosity , the star loses the last of its light and heat , and becomes a cold , dead Black Dwarf . |
| 6 | These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation . |
| 7 | She had , to hand , the lavatory brush , three toilet rolls and the hardback edition of a very long novel by a Peruvian author with an unpronounceable name . |
| 8 | Statements by the West German Bundesbank indicate that it views monetary union as a state which comes only at the end of a very long process of economic convergence . |
| 9 | The capacity rules are just part of a now long list of rules and regulations that surround university life , and make extra demands on the time and freedom of academics . |
| 10 | To the earliest Christian communities Jesus was not the founder or originator of the community of God 's people , but the climax of an already long story of a divine education of humanity through the special illumination given to the prophets of Israel . |
| 11 | So each replicator is potentially the ‘ ancestor ’ of an indefinitely long line of descendant replicators , stretching into the distant future , and branching to produce , potentially , an exceedingly large number of descendant replicators . |
| 12 | The possibility of an indefinitely long list of necessary indices or co-ordinates thus has to be faced . |
| 13 | ‘ It might seem like an awful long time to be working on a debut album , but we 're were n't going to be rushed , ’ says Dermot . |
| 14 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 15 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 16 | However , the considerations given earlier on overflow area size and the need to allow for a relatively long period between reorganizations will guide the designer to a reasonable compromise . |
| 17 | If subject to stress for a sufficiently long period of time all ‘ solid ’ materials are capable of flow . |
| 18 | However , if gains are kept offshore for a sufficiently long period of time , the return on investment may exceed the increased capital gains tax liability . |
| 19 | Many in the Labour movement were prepared to admit that without a strong combination forcing the National Government out of office " we may not get a chance for a very long time of putting into effect our ultimate aims " . |
| 20 | Owen O'Neil agrees : ‘ There 's no major comedy circuit in Northern Ireland in the way there is in London , but people have survived for a very long time on the strength of their own sense of humour . ’ |
| 21 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 22 | Frankly , she could survive in great happiness for a very long time without ever setting eyes on him again . |
| 23 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 24 | It is a factor recognised for a very long time in relation to language learning . |
| 25 | Yes ar are not that good but I 'm working at it on a sort of regional basis erm but you may have to keep me here for a very long time in order to achieve it . |
| 26 | It would evidently be impossible to resume normal living conditions for a very long time after fallout of the assumed density . ’ |
| 27 | On the other hand all modern anthropologists and archaeologists would agree with the view that for a very long period of history mankind has existed solely by hunting , fishing , and gathering , and that such a technological stage always precedes domestication of plants and animals . |
| 28 | One possibility would be a statutory reformulation of Rylands v. Fletcher shorn of the qualifications and defences which so emasculate it now , perhaps on the lines of the Restatement , which imposes strict liability on one who carries on an ‘ abnormally dangerous activity , ’ but this would be open to varying judicial inclinations and would give rise to considerable uncertainty for a very long period of time . |
| 29 | The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment . |
| 30 | All subject groups had DGR for some of the study period ; however , both groups of patients had reflux for a significantly longer proportion of study time than the normal controls ( 12% of study time for normal controls , 67% for gastric ulcer patients , and 91% for gastric surgery patients ; p<0.001 gastric ulcer v controls and p<0.0002 gastric surgery v controls ; Fig 1 ) . |