Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 2 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 3 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 4 | BORED kids are fed up with the long summer holiday and ca n't wait to go back to school , according to a new survey . |
| 5 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 6 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 7 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 8 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 9 | In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation . |
| 10 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 11 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
| 12 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 13 | The good effects of war can be detected only in the long term , and there were bad effects too , while the consequences of coalition for the party were immediate and almost wholly negative . |
| 14 | In the case of the Hundred Years War , the causes of the conflict were to be found both in the long historic links between England and France , links which were gradually becoming weaker , and in the need to express in new terms the relationship between the two countries ( arguably the two most powerful in western society in the late Middle Ages ) taking into account elements such as national consciousness and diverging methods of government ( to name but two ) which historians recognise as being characteristic of late medieval European society as a whole . |
| 15 | On the latter subject , the author points to the inconsistent decisions on whether the effect of unambiguous operative provisions can be cut down by the long title and he seems to incline to the view that they can be so affected ; this , perhaps , does not give sufficient weight to what was said about the effect of the preamble in Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover . |
| 16 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) offer as justification for this assumption the suggestion that ‘ important ’ memories retain the ability to be retrieved even after a long retention interval whereas less important memories do not . |
| 17 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |
| 18 | However , this is an aspect that must be studied closely over a longer period , for there is a danger in some of the inner-city schemes of officially-induced gentrification . |
| 19 | But the couple 's solicitor Con Fernandez said the pair were just skittles waiting to be bowled over by the long arm of the law . |
| 20 | But the couple 's solicitor Con Fernandez said the pair were just skittles waiting to be bowled over by the long arm of the law . |
| 21 | The products will initially be manufactured in the US , though the possibility that Olivetti could one day manufacture them in Europe , for Europe , has not been ruled out in the longer term . |
| 22 | Now in terms of the cr the need for development , I 'm sure the panel will have read all the evidence which has been put in about the long history of the varying impact studies o on development on around Greater York , and those date back of course to the February eighty nine report which I I think you 'll have seen copies of . |
| 23 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 24 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 25 | The sense of great loyalty is apparent , and the waste of life as if the knights dying ‘ man by man ’ are dominoes being knocked over in a long line . |
| 26 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 27 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 28 | The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record . |
| 29 | Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome . |
| 30 | A rectangular coil is located parallel to a long straight current-carrying wire as shown in Fig. 4.19 . |