Example sentences of "[art] very long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He writes : ‘ It seems to me that a great number of our explicit or implicit theories , our methods and preferences are heavily influenced by the very long traditions of analyzing mainly , or only , certain kinds of written language . |
| 2 | This is elicited , after the very long delay of 400 msec , by the visual presentation of a semantically improbable word ( for example , the word ‘ socks ’ in ‘ He spread the warm bread with socks ’ ) . |
| 3 | It is a burden that Russia could do without , but at least it is far cheaper than maintaining an army of occupation in what Richard III might have called the very long winter of discontent . |
| 4 | ‘ I flung my arms round her and we walked the very long way to the terminal in the pouring rain and it did n't matter at all . ’ |
| 5 | It was reorganised in 1721 ; and from the 1750s onwards the foreign policies of the monarchy were given greater continuity by a purely personal factor — the very long tenure of the post of Court and State Chancellor , for over forty years from his appointment in 1753 , by Prince Wenzel von Kaunitz-Rietberg . |
| 6 | Close beside Xi is the huge eclipsing binary VV Cephei , which has the very long period of 7430 days ; the next eclipse is not due until 1996 , when the magnitude will drop from its usual 4.9 to about 5.2 . |
| 7 | The result can be a very long document in a complicated coding scheme , but it forms a powerful description of design information without any compromise made in accuracy . |
| 8 | Yes I I remember we went down a very long cul-de-sac at one stage on self containment did n't we . |
| 9 | ‘ Negotiating with customers took time too ; it 's a very long haul in the Eastern European market , ’ comments Pomfret . |
| 10 | No because that 's , we 've got a video going in now at nine o'clock , er , a very long pair of wires erm so what do I need here ? |
| 11 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
| 12 | She 's ninety-three now , so she has a , a very long memory of , of political causes . |
| 13 | It 's a very long struggle for decent wages erm recognition at work , the same kind of jobs that men have erm it 's interesting the results of the Guardian survey yesterday , ten thousand replies they had , and there were a tiny percentage of women that earned over thirty thousand , so you could see that many , many of the job tops are still in the hands of men . |
| 14 | A Labour government would be wise to send him off to make a very long film in India . |
| 15 | And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet . |
| 16 | A month is a very long tim in fotbal . |
| 17 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 18 | There is a very long tradition of collaboration between education and employers that stretches back to the foundation of the Mechanics Institutes in the nineteenth century — and to their even earlier precursors the Dissenting Academies — and developing through the technical colleges , colleges of advanced technology , technological universities and colleges of further and higher education . |
| 19 | In spite of the fact that there has been a very long tradition of work on rural land use , including the invaluable land use survey of the 1930s ( Stamp , 1962 ) , and its revival in the second survey of the 1960s and 1970s * ( Coleman et al , 1974 ) and much other detailed work from other sources ( Hart , 1980 ; Coppock , 1960a ; Best , 1981 ) as shown in Table 8. 1 , there is still a desperate need ( Hall , 1 974 , 414 ) for a ‘ national Domesday book for land use , preferably updated every 10 years at the time of the population census ’ . |
| 20 | This combination of a strictly limited set of measures , and their application only to new housing , goes a very long way to explaining why public ignorance of these matters is so widespread in Britain . |
| 21 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |
| 22 | Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England . |
| 23 | The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill . |
| 24 | It 's , it 's a very long way to cycle , is it er , have you done anything like before Chris ? |
| 25 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |
| 26 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 27 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |
| 28 | Grouse " potted whole , stowed singly into pots with clarified butter poured over " as described by Professor Saintsbury ( the old boy did n't miss much ) are infinitely enticing , exceedingly extravagant with butter and not very practical for these days , but you can make one young cooked grouse or partridge go a very long way by the simple method of chopping the flesh , freed from all skin and sinew with about one quarter of its weight in mild , rather fat , cooked ham . |
| 29 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 30 | We had certainly made some fully justified savings in Housing Benefit but these were a very long way from the £2 billion ambitions of the Treasury . |