Example sentences of "[prep] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And Gooch had agreed to tour India this winter only after long discussions at home . |
| 2 | After long discussions in which cyclists ’ opinions of horses were also aired , we agreed that in fact , riders and cyclists have many aims in common : both want traffic-free , cross-country routes . |
| 3 | After long exposure to the air or burial in the ground most materials corrode . |
| 4 | Only 24 hours after Marfa joined the bonfire of Old Believers that Sunday afternoon — and , after long consideration of the Stravinsky , Shostakovich and Rimsky conclusions to Mussorgsky 's score , Gergiev decided that she should mount the pyre to an orchestral reprise of the Russian melody , very simple and strong — the Kirov orchestra and chorus were reassembling for something completely different : a revival of Tchaikovsky 's Queen of Spades in the production originally conceived by Gergiev 's predecessor at the Kirov , the equally charismatic Yuri Temirkanov . |
| 5 | After long talks with WBC president Jose Sulaiman , Maloney is confident that approval will be given for Lewis to fight the Hammersmith-born Jamaican Alex Stewart in the first defence of his title . |
| 6 | Frequent leave was recommended ‘ in order to regain sanity of outlook after long periods of loneliness ’ , and it was later added that : ‘ Intellectual geniuses are not required , nor anyone with ‘ nerves ’ or who is likely to become ‘ Masai-astic ’ … i.e. regard themselves as specialists ' . |
| 7 | A number of borough councils agreed to appoint workers with specific lesbian and gay responsibilities and , after long periods of consultation , Camden and Haringey agreed to set up their own lesbian and gay units . |
| 8 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 9 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |
| 10 | The compromise list was put together after long hours of high drama when Mr Pozsgay , a minister of state and the leading reformer , and two of his close allies threatened to walk out . |
| 11 | In any case , few men or women had sufficient time or energy after long hours of farm labouring or housework to devote to a garden or allotment . |
| 12 | The two principals she served under were men coming to the end of their service after long experience as leaders . |
| 13 | And Colt , after long days of torture , had recognised in the Colonel someone he could like , someone whose trust he would value . |
| 14 | They have an important part to play in providing care to those discharged after long stays in hospital and also in providing temporary homes and rehabilitation to those trying to re-establish themselves in the community . |
| 15 | After long use of permanent hair colourants , which penetrate the hair shaft , hair may be porous , broken and dull . |
| 16 | Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weather |
| 17 | That cabal had created the hydra after long research in covert theological laboratories located on the frozen fringe of some barren solar system unclaimed by either the Imperium or by aliens . |
| 18 | After long years of living in unsatisfactory rented accommodation , it now looked as if Jack and Minto could afford a place of their own . |
| 19 | Asked what he hoped for Soviet art and culture after long years of political oppression , he said there would be an enormous spiritual benefit , not least because of easier travel and contacts with the rest of the world . |
| 20 | A key feature of the Intifada is that , after long years of trans-frontier or inter-state conflict between largely faceless enemies , it brought the conflict back to where it essentially belongs , to Palestine itself . |
| 21 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 22 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 23 | After long debate in Parliament , the condition was accepted and the collections were moved to Montague House to become the nucleus of the British Museum . |
| 24 | This was particularly true for those small communities , small towns , or groups of peasants , who had won their privileges after long struggles against a higher authority . |
| 25 | I could not see the ravine and its bald cliff edges on account of the trees and shrubs that had reached a confident maturity despite long years of unprotected infancy and adolescence . |
| 26 | Despite long negotiations with the local authority planning department , the site did not figure in their 1982 County Plan for residential development and alternative health service uses were therefore being canvassed . |
| 27 | She was walking too quickly , stumbling occasionally , past long belts like dressing-gown cords hanging from poles , which plucked at her face as she pushed through , straying over a pile of new dyed wool , brilliant and damp , into a glare of sunlight , stepping back from a mule loaded with carpets , bumping into a wall where blue thread ran along from a spinning wheel , guarded from tangling by small boys who pushed at her and muttered and laughed ; she would have grasped at the thin thread to lead her out . |
| 28 | But Virginia Woolf 's mature novels consist almost entirely of long passages of introspection by the characters in free indirect style , punctuated by banal conversational remarks and parenthetical reports of trivial actions . |
| 29 | The most important element in Free Church worship has traditionally been the reading of long passages of Holy Scripture and their exposition by a learned minister . |
| 30 | It took away the normal drudgery of long flights with little radio contact and constant headings . |