Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should also recall that the nature of the war , sieges pursued by both sides and the defence of a long frontier stretching from Le Crotoy in the east to Mont-Saint-Michel in the west , dictated a kind of war in which heavy cavalry played relatively little part other than in defence . |
| 2 | He felt clear headed enough to tackle the remainder of the long journey north . |
| 3 | Buddhists believe that Gautama the Buddha was the successor to a long line of earlier Buddhas , all distinguished by shrewdness , wisdom , love or sacrifice . |
| 4 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 5 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
| 6 | Here I hope that I am in the present with the advantage of a long view back as well . |
| 7 | With both at 33 , Cambridge began to draw ahead with the advantage of the long Surrey bend . |
| 8 | ‘ Seeing only the whirlpools and counter-currents but not the progress of the long river of history only reveals the observer 's political short-sightedness . ’ |
| 9 | Then suddenly he sees Piquet go into a spin and does n't get back into the field for a long time . |
| 10 | In the home market , it led the field by a long way , with 4,337,487 units sold ; Pan came next , with 2,181,514 . |
| 11 | This is obviously not new , and is in part an expansion of the teaching of a long line of papal encyclicals on social justice beginning with Leo XIII 's Rerum Novarum and extending up to Pope John 's Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris , but there is no possible doubt that the Council , following in this the footsteps of Pope John , gave both a wider range and a new urgency to concerns of this kind as properly constitutive of a very large part of Christian living . |
| 12 | It was a little after ten o'clock by the time the three men gathered in the council chamber over the post office and unrolled the plans on the long oak table . |
| 13 | Happily the other Albert the one with two rather than four legs was in finer fettle , despite a morning spent wrestling with the complexities of a long speech . |
| 14 | But the second perspective is that the rent review clause is the landlord 's price for the grant of a long term , in the absence of which he would have granted a shorter term . |
| 15 | R. W. Francis , butcher of Church St. , Bishop 's Castle , used to buy whinberries in bulk from local pickers , and Plowden Station at the foot of the Long Mynd was an ideal pick up point for these pickers . |
| 16 | For a minute they walked in silence hearing the rustle of the long grasses over their shoes . |
| 17 | That evening I went to see an old friend ( that is , old in years ) in case out of the experience of a long life she might bring forth words of wisdom . |
| 18 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
| 19 | They played rummy with Patsy in the kitchen for a long time because Mother and Father went across the road to Dr and Mrs Johnson 's house . |
| 20 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 21 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 22 | Copies of the rules of the Long Term Incentive Plans for each of the Waterford Crystal and the Wedgwood Group businesses will be available for inspection on the day of the Annual General Meeting at Hotel Conrad for 15 minutes prior to and until the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting . |
| 23 | However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate . |
| 24 | In 1987 33 per cent of the population , 35 per cent of females and 32 per cent of males , reported the presence of a long standing illness . |
| 25 | The boat was ready to leave now and two members of its small crew began casting off , one of them pushing the boat away from the quayside with a long boat-hook . |
| 26 | Ramblers are angry that a golf clubhouse is being built across the route of a long distance footpath . |
| 27 | THE story of the Long Island Lolita who shot her love rival was screened on US TV last night . |
| 28 | Indeed , sometimes the original participants would leave in the course of a long recording session . |
| 29 | In the course of a long interview in his apartment , I found myself quite charmed by his lack of pretension , inarticulate babble sprinkled with the occasionally brilliant observation and odd habit of quoting himself , but I nevertheless remained convinced that Koons ' self-effacing earnestness was a scam . |
| 30 | In the course of a long lifetime , his bold concept was proved an amazing success . |