Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Businesses that are either very capital intensive or in complex technology , or characterised by a long time-lag between investment and payback , need to have a well-informed head office .
3 Businesses that are either very capital intensive or in complex technology , or characterised by a long time-lag between investment and payback , need to have a well-informed head office
4 It is for this reason , more than any other , that the application has caused so much public concern , since what is proposed raises quite fundamental questions about the way in which this special coastal landscape could be protected or despoiled in the longer term .
5 Many species have the aperture flared , or extended into a long tube ( siphonate forms ) .
6 Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period .
7 She was admitted , now , to the feasting-hall of the King , and placed at the long women 's table presided over by Marietta of Patras , the King 's serene and excellent mother .
8 Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous .
9 There is the standard , spacious , minimally-furnished living room , tastefully carpeted in subdued oatmeal and dominated by a long sofa and oversized TV .
10 Nevertheless , the rapid uptake of the technology , with the implications this has for very substantial job displacement in some sectors , even if matched in the longer term by job creation elsewhere , is highly likely to create further problems for the economy and for society to handle .
11 Gorbad halted the attack and prepared for a long siege .
12 In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest .
13 We saw our chance , and hastily we packed up and prepared for the long trek back the way we had come , to the Youth Hostel .
14 These fundamental axioms were refined , clarified and applied through a long series of debates and conflicts with the Liberal Theology in which he had been trained , and which he had earlier enthusiastically followed , with the claims of the Führer to be the chosen instrument of divine providence , and with colleagues , notably Emil Brunner ( 1889–1966 ) , Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) and Friedrich Gogarten ( 1887 — 1967 ) , whose approaches , though having some affinities with his own , he felt in the end to be in varying degrees unsatisfactory .
15 She watched as Dana twirled and twisted before a long mirror , making the dress shimmer with a thousand lights .
16 Signatories of GATT could institute tariff changes which might discriminate against third parties only if done over a long period of time , so giving those third parties the opportunities of adjusting to the change without suffering severe economic disruption .
17 They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time .
18 Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend .
19 Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered .
20 ( i ) Of course , when A = Z and ρ is multiplication , the above merely repeats results we 've known and used for a long time .
21 When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't .
22 Once inside the room , the two officers stripped off their black uniform jackets , and sprawled on the long sofa .
23 Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) .
24 Milner ( 1975 ) has summarised and contributed to the long history of research which demonstrates black children 's denial of their colour ( Clark and Clark , 1947 ) , and their preference for white identity ( Goodman , 1964 ) .
25 As in most parts of Britain the Hercynian movements at the end of the Carboniferous were accompanied and followed by a long period of erosion .
26 ‘ I was thinking , ’ he said , then spooned some more of the green-brown mixture into his face and chewed for a long time .
27 McGowan walked to the car and returned with the long canvas bag and the cardboard box .
28 We unfortunately missed it , and returned by the longer forest road , although a small compensation is the view looking back of Stob Coire an Laoigh framed perfectly by the pines .
29 Gallie concludes that the relatively greater emphasis upon authoritarian and paternalistic practices within the French context is not solely a reflection of managerial attitudes engendered by the structural characteristics of industry , as typified by a long predominance of small , family firms in which the employer regarded himself as having a right to exclusive control .
30 Thus large companies and boards of nationalised industries were provided with enormous financial assistance enabling ( or rather persuading ) them to base their reorganisation on designated development areas which in many cases they would not otherwise have chosen , for reasons of both private and public benefit when judged over the longer run [ Knight , 1974 ; Moore and Rhodes , 1973 ] .
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