Example sentences of "[art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Leaving Braemore by the A.832 , the long circuit of the Gairloch peninsula commences .
2 The long trend of the 1980s has come to an end , along with the crash of the Tokyo stockmarket in 1990 and the collapse of warrants .
3 The social prerequisite of the long trend in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries towards lower crime and disorder , and greater police acceptance , was the historical process of working-class incorporation .
4 A recreation city , apparently , for the officers of the garrison at Silcaster , and the legions tramping the long course of Watling Street .
5 Of course the other major factor that had an impact on policy and practice in the later 1970s was resource constraints — the end of the long expansion of local authority staffing and budgets since 1948 , and of the rapid growth of the early 1970s .
6 Then that would sort of feed itself , but you had to have one man feeding the the scrapping machine and another man with a shovel , pulling away the the the the the the scrapped at the side and then you had to have another man feeding the long hay into the chaff cutter .
7 His arms hardly move at all — just the legs move , and his bare feet on the ground as he jumps up and down , and the long tuft of hair that bounces back and forth over his shoulder .
8 She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon .
9 And in doing so she has proved herself a mightier force than the Palace propaganda machine , which suggested that she might not attend because she was too old and frail to make the long journey to Crathie Church .
10 The long journey to a holy place where they would encounter the divine in a special way was a graphic demonstration of the Christian orientation to God ; the hardships of the road , which rich and poor shared side by side , gave the pilgrims an impressive experience of community , charity and poverty , with its rider : dependence upon God alone .
11 As eighth reserve for the tournament the chances were slim , but he decided to make the long journey to Crooked Stick , Indiana , on the off-chance .
12 Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match .
13 For the long journey to the Pole , they needed a lot of food , and they could n't carry it all with them .
14 ’ And the boy in Toulouse or Poitiers or Bordeaux or Rouen , still secretly anxious about the long journey to the capital , feels his head filling up with snobbery and lust .
15 It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness .
16 Where possible the ore , as has been mentioned , was hand dressed in preparation for the long journey to Keswick .
17 He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect .
18 Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team .
19 Saddest export a convoy of lorries begins the long journey to China and , inset , the furnace as it used to be at the height of production Picture : VIC CLEVELEY
20 Many hundreds of Londoners have moved out into the central south region , opting for a cheaper home at the cost of the long journey to work .
21 Although George had written to Tamar to tell her of Edward 's christening , he had not really expected her and Stephen to make the long journey from Thorsbury .
22 JOE McCall ( Stephens ) made the long journey from Dublin for the opening round of the UCF 's ATB Mountainbike League , sponsored by the Cycle Shop Lisburn , at Tardree Forest Park .
23 Rita is still experiencing some back trouble so we were particularly grateful to her for making the long journey from Newcastle .
24 Up to 600 Bewick swans make the long journey from Russia between October and December and return to Siberia in February .
25 The Six had reverted to Schuman 's view that political union could be achieved in the long run through a sustained effort at economic integration across a broad front .
26 Pétain was also a disciple of attrition , but in an entirely different sense from Joffre and Haig with their inhumanly simple calculations that the Germans could be beaten in the long run through losing man for man , by virtue of the Allied superiority in cannon fodder .
27 But really it is the crew as a whole which counts in the long run on a job like this .
28 France : new orders dried up as the long run of 63 reactors either built or under construction came to an end and the country grappled with the problem of an over-supply of electricity .
29 During 1760 the long run of British success continued , culminating , on 8 September , with the surrender of all Canada to the British crown .
30 Small members of the crew will find that the long run of handholds down each side make it easy to use .
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