Example sentences of "[verb] a long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously you will need a longer and wider piece of wood than the size of the cutlery blank . |
| 2 | Suitably armed , the Princess felt confident enough to write a long and detailed rejoinder to her irate father-in-law which effectively spelled out the way she felt she had been treated by husband , the Royal Family and their courtiers . |
| 3 | Case No. 9 : 76 year-old Sulphur patient with typical 11.00 hr. aggravation and bladder infections felt temporary relief for two months after Sulphur 200 , Sulph 1M was given , but she sustained a long and somewhat debilitating aggravation lasting 6–8 weeks . |
| 4 | The twelfth is notable : for the first time ( UX No 430 ) Sybase will be available on the ICL DRS6000 , ending a long and tense stand-offish relationship between it and ICL formerly wedded to the Ingres toolset , and Sybase , and joining rivals Oracle and Informix on the ICL Unix platform . |
| 5 | The twelfth is notable : for the first time , Sybase will be available on the ICL Plc DRS 6000 , ending a long and tense stand-offish relationship between it and an ICL formerly wedded to the Ingres tool set , and Sybase , and joining rivals Oracle and Informix on the ICL Unix system . |
| 6 | A few days later the Sunday People followed up with a similar theme in the Voice of the People column , ending a long and forceful editorial with an impassioned plea : |
| 7 | The rat-teeth missed her but caught her robe , slashing it open from hip to ankle , revealing a long and shapely leg . |
| 8 | Regaining this knowledge involved a long and hazardous series of amphibious raids in which the clandestine activities of SOE and the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , as well as the commandos , became involved . |
| 9 | Bob Smith and David Brand from HMS United got inshore on their first night 's recce to find a long and uncharted sandbank off the south coast port of Gela , where the Rangers would land that summer . |
| 10 | Instead , sanctions could sometimes be avoided by using the organization 's rules against a superior — ‘ working to rule ’ has a long and honourable tradition in labour history , especially where industrial action is prohibited . |
| 11 | Vindication of the right to vote has a long and proud history . |
| 12 | Take education , in which Mr Clinton has a long and distinguished interest . |
| 13 | Basically white American rural music descended from British and Irish folk traditions , country has a long and much cherished lineage . |
| 14 | The use of sex crime in the media as a source of titillation has a long and inglorious past which has emerged spectacularly again in the Thatcher years . |
| 15 | He has a long and distinguished career in public health medicine : he was the first doctor to give a patient penicillin in 1941 and then moved to the post of director of the Medical Research Council 's Pneumoconiosis Research Unit , investigating diseases of the lung . |
| 16 | Lucca has a long and brave history and its rigid grid of streets still betray its Roman origins . |
| 17 | Perhaps the latter term suggests too wide a subject-matter ; it would seem , for example , to include extradition ( which has a long and separate history , and is not examined in this book ) as well as the provision of technical assistance in , for example , legislative drafting . |
| 18 | Fraserburgh has a long and distinguished lifeboat history , but the town has paid the price with the loss of no less than 13 lifeboatmen 's lives in the course of several disasters . |
| 19 | It remains the key to our understanding of the natural world and it enables us to recognise that life has a long and continuous history during which organisms , both plant and animal , have changed , generation by generation , as they colonised all parts of the world . |
| 20 | The city of Shechem has a long and important history . |
| 21 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 22 | Defined as ‘ the encouragement given to an individual by a patron who favours , protects , and gives influential support , ’ it has a long and generally inglorious history in the development of careers in medicine . |
| 23 | The use of the streets and other public places as venues in which to air grievances and complaints ( and to celebrate achievements ) has a long and hallowed history . |
| 24 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 25 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 26 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 27 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 28 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 29 | Biological research has a long and distinguished tradition in the University and the excellence of research within the Division is recognised nationally and internationally . |
| 30 | The University of Edinburgh is one of the ancient universities of Scotland and as such has a long and fascinating history on which to build towards a dynamic future at the forefront of teaching and research . |