Example sentences of "[adv] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 2 | From the plinth you look down long rows of white crosses and plain headstones on the far side of the memorial ; some say inconnu , others ‘ A Soldier of the Great War ’ . |
| 3 | If subject to stress for a sufficiently long period of time all ‘ solid ’ materials are capable of flow . |
| 4 | However , if gains are kept offshore for a sufficiently long period of time , the return on investment may exceed the increased capital gains tax liability . |
| 5 | Sufficiently long gap between contractions for me to smile for the camera . |
| 6 | The data reported by Kovacs in section 12.9 imply that the observed T g would decrease further if a sufficiently long time for measurement was allowed . |
| 7 | It is hypothesised that most existing studies of adoption are not sufficiently long term to , demonstrate these effects . |
| 8 | Perhaps long exposure to tennis , bad public transport , English weather and the sight of miserable middle-aged people walking their dogs had driven this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis right round the bend . |
| 9 | For instance , Corbett , in support of the observation that Swift uses abnormally long sentences in A Modest Proposal , cites a much lower sentence length from a sample from A Tale of a Tub . |
| 10 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 11 | Erm principally this area is wide open farmland so long views of a new settlement will be provided and it 'll be very difficult to try and disguise that in any way . |
| 12 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 13 | In the meantime Emilia was in her room still , fussing for an unconscionably long time over her appearance . |
| 14 | The Gaullist conception of state broadcasting would prove an unconscionably long time in dying-in May 1986 Communications Minister Léotard still referred to the need to reduce state control — ‘ la desétatisation de l'audiovisuel ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Oliver has drawn up an impossibly long list of games , ’ Marjorie said . |
| 16 | Proteins are built by joining together long chains of individual units — amino acids — which are either themselves made in the body or are present in the diet . |
| 17 | Extremely long lengths of gutter for Austin Rover on its ‘ Flight Shed ’ building at Longbridge are shown after relining with an in situ GRP gutter lining system without disturbing the existing gutters and also maintaining their full flow capacity |
| 18 | Before the law was introduced in the Greek parliament , there was an extremely long procedure during which the minister of education visited each Greek campus and held lengthy discussions with the universities ' senates on the basis of written replies to a questionnaire distributed by the ministry to each member of the university community in Greece . |
| 19 | These polypeptides in turn form into extremely long chains of proteins . |
| 20 | Horses need sufficient good feed , and due to the extremely long length of their intestines they need a lot of roughage — that means good pasture or hay . |
| 21 | Even this would not in itself warrant lengthy description were it not for the fact that Verdun 's peculiarly sinister environment came to leave an imprint on men 's memories that stood apart from other battles of the First War ; and predominantly so in France where the nightmares it inspired lingered perniciously long years after the Armistice . |
| 22 | Only longer experience of a wider range of practices operating in a more constrained financial climate will enable a proper judgment to be made . |
| 23 | Only a small part of this difference between the two planets is due to the much longer night on Venus : the main reason is unknown . |
| 24 | The Criminal Justice Act will allow for much longer supervision of sex offenders after they are released from gaol . |
| 25 | The four-year-old won a juvenile hurdle before that and it seems trainer Jimmy FitzGerald has brought about considerable improvement by asking his four-year-old to tackle much longer distances on the Flat than last year . |
| 26 | The much longer route along the river , which we chose to follow , has neither a railway nor any proper roads . |
| 27 | It was timeless : other contests set a date and trust to luck that nature will co-operate — the Triple Crown was already distinct in having a much longer window of opportunity than fixtures elsewhere on the Tour . |
| 28 | in order to get a better estimate of how accurately the clock works we need to be able to study it for much longer periods of time . |
| 29 | As A. G. Street so clearly demonstrated in his classic Farmer 's Glory in the 1930s , these indulgences have invariably been followed , quite suddenly , by much longer periods of agricultural depression when the land has had to be grassed down to rebuild fertility . |
| 30 | In prolonged breeding , on the other hand , mating takes place over much longer periods of time , or indeed throughout the year . |