Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment . |
| 2 | Funerals were within living memory ceremonial rites engaging whole communities — blinds drawn down across the street , the pomp of plumed horses and the procession of followers , traffic momentarily halted , the bereaved publicly showing their sorrow for months in the long wearing of black afterwards ; monuments and cemeteries were focuses of family and civic pride ; fear of a pauper grave was so powerful that death insurance was by far the most widespread Victorian insurance policy . |
| 3 | They are intimately connected with breaks in the long profile of the streams . |
| 4 | Pantaleone , one of four eighteenth-century commedia dell-arte figures in the Long Garden at Cliveden |
| 5 | Certainly , he can enjoy the outcome for a day or two , but there is still a question mark over dealings in the longer term on the all-important economy , with the rivalry between the trading blocs dictating how ‘ special ’ the ‘ relationship ’ is likely to remain . |
| 6 | In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League . |
| 7 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 8 | No wicker chairs could be seen there now , only a rusty harrow baring its teeth in the long grass like a mantrap . |
| 9 | But among those with special achievements to their credit were the branches at Knebworth ( Hertfordshire ) , Kelvedon , Manningtree and Wivenhoe ( Essex ) , all of which published village histories during 1953–54 ; at Hemel Hempstead which duplicated and sold Welfare and the State , the log-book of weekly discussions in a Long Terminal on ‘ Economic and Social Problems ’ held in 1956–57 ; at Linton ( Cambridgeshire ) which followed up a music course by helping to launch the Linton Music Festival in July 1957 , destined to become an annual event ; and at Colchester where a Tutorial on archaeology from 1955 to 1958 led to the formation of the Colchester Archaeological Group . |
| 10 | Duclos-Lasalle , 37 , who is likely to retire at the end of the season , converted two previous second places , a fourth and sixth , into victory when he arrived alone on the velodrome at Roubaix to one of the warmest welcomes in the long history of the race . |
| 11 | It sets developments in a longer context of negotiations and bargaining between levels of government . |
| 12 | New reproductive technologies — in vitro fertilisation ( IVF , the ’ test-tube baby ’ procedures ) , human embryo research , gene analysis of embryos , etc — are recent examples in a long line of high-tech medical interventions into women 's fertility . |
| 13 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 14 | While the unweaned child must remain preoccupied by the absence of the breast and his hunger for it , the successfully weaned individual is free to turn his attention to other means of satisfying his hunter , and will probably find that , as in the instructive case of agriculture , a judicious control of his appetite results in the long run in a lessened likelihood of hunger . |
| 15 | I am a veritable doubting Thomas about the industry 's claim that if Sizewell B goes ahead , there will be significant benefits in the long term from an increase in the British share of the world market for PWR related products and services . |
| 16 | Exposure to teaching by other staff might also increase motivation in those nurses who do not themselves normally participate in teaching , and such improvements may also have financial benefits in the longer term through overall increases in efficiency . |
| 17 | THE 138th Boat Race will go down as one of the classic encounters in the long history of the event . |