Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " 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 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 8 | There is the standard , spacious , minimally-furnished living room , tastefully carpeted in subdued oatmeal and dominated by a long sofa and oversized TV . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gorbad halted the attack and prepared for a long siege . |
| 11 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She watched as Dana twirled and twisted before a long mirror , making the dress shimmer with a thousand lights . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 16 | Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend . |
| 17 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 18 | ( i ) Of course , when A = Z and ρ is multiplication , the above merely repeats results we 've known and used for a long time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Once inside the room , the two officers stripped off their black uniform jackets , and sprawled on the long sofa . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I was thinking , ’ he said , then spooned some more of the green-brown mixture into his face and chewed for a long time . |
| 25 | McGowan walked to the car and returned with the long canvas bag and the cardboard box . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ] . |