Example sentences of "a long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly one of the best ways the overseas student has of seeing what is required in British theatre training is to apply for one of the summer schools offered by the drama schools , and find out what it 's all about before committing him- or herself to a long and expensive stay . |
| 2 | The latter became InterCity property in 1986 , following a long and complicated sequence of events which began near the end of 1983 with the enforced withdrawal of the SLOA Pullman set , following the discovery that the potentially dangerous blue asbestos coach body insulation had become exposed . |
| 3 | Ashton makes brilliant use of this in his version of the solo , phrasing the steps so that a jump upwards can last three beats followed by two short steps or two beats followed by a long and then a short step . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've still got Jasper and he 's going to have a long and happy life , ’ she declared . |
| 5 | The neatness comes afterwards ; it gets imposed when a long and laborious and very untidy process is shortcircuited by the observation ( which Dostoevsky himself may never have made ) of a direct link between Stavrogin and the underground man . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , watching the AX 's fuel gauge fall to empty is a long and tedious vigil . |
| 7 | ‘ In the course of a long and misspent career , I have probably seen less amusing comedies than this but , if so , I can not at present call any of them to mind . ’ |
| 8 | The hurdle of post office reform has brought down French ministers of state before now , notably Pierre Lelong , who held the posts and telecommunications portfolio in Jacques Chirac 's government but was forced to resign after a long and bitter strike in 1974 . |
| 9 | Towards the end of a long and tiring night shift , when news was coming through of the murder of another member of the RUC , one policeman in particular decided to put the field-worker through a test of trust . |
| 10 | It was a long and anxious debate about Ramsey without him knowing ; between the Archbishop of Canterbury , the prime minister Eden , the prime minister 's patronage secretary Bevir , Garbett the outgoing Archbishop of York , and Wand the outgoing Bishop of London . |
| 11 | We climbed Storskarfjell on a long and hard day that started before the sun came up and finished long after it had gone down . |
| 12 | We pause again and swap passenger so that Nathan takes Tony round the edge of the peak into a long and narrow , and steep valley . |
| 13 | After a long and bitter divorce , 34-year-old Wendy Almon was looking forward to starting a new life . |
| 14 | The homecoming procedure , even after a long and exhausting exercise , is well known . |
| 15 | The soldiers had found it a long and tiring period . |
| 16 | Charles and Diana are both very fond of the Antipodes — Charles feels particularly at home there after his months at Timbertop — but it was a long and exhausting tour . |
| 17 | They take ponies to carry the stags down the hill — nevertheless , it can be a long and exhausting day out . |
| 18 | Again , on the flight home from Melbourne at the end of their Australian tour in 1985 , Charles hand-wrote a long and frank letter about his thoughts on a wide range of issues , including the Greater London Council — a politically explosive subject — — and had entrusted it to the common mail , without apparently thinking it unwise . |
| 19 | What we are witnessing is the eager consummation that follows a long and passionate seduction . |
| 20 | Weary of Israel 's ceaseless importuning , it recently produced a long and scholarly ‘ confidential report ’ which concludes that , since Arafat told the UN General Assembly last December that he recognised Israel 's right to exist and ‘ renounced ’ terrorism , the PLO has not been speaking with ‘ forked tongues ’ and its declarations have ‘ for the most part been consistent , regardless of the media in which they appear . ’ |
| 21 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 22 | ‘ His investigative talent , which he displayed in this instance , will no doubt stand him in good stead in the future and I hope that he will have a long and distinguished career , ’ he said . |
| 23 | The following morning our team of John , a theology student from a Jesuit College who talked like Derek Nimmo in All Gas and Gaiters , James , a British Telecom engineer ( useful ) and I , set off to follow a long and complicated trail across Colchester . |
| 24 | Just over the mountain in Kentucky is Harlan County , where in 1973 the miners fought a long and bitter strike . |
| 25 | Never before has a machine been allowed such a long and cosseted lead-time . |
| 26 | Macmillan made a long and politically emotional appeal for Skybolt 's replacement by Polaris . |
| 27 | Cheesemaking by hand is a long and tiring process — it sounds idyllic but is very hard , physical work . |
| 28 | The killing can then be a long and slow process , and the animals often have to endure hours trapped in the midst of the bloody massacre of their family , awaiting their own agonising mutilation . |
| 29 | A long and inconclusive stand-off in the Middle East , when oil prices could probably edge down from their recent $28-odd a barrel , would string out the recession but not deepen it greatly . |
| 30 | That the monument is only the latest manifestation of a long and miserable tradition of big lies and big art should come as no surprise to readers of ‘ Republic of Fear ’ , Mr Khalil 's previous study of contemporary Iraqi politics . |