Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the long journey to the Pole , they needed a lot of food , and they could n't carry it all with them . |
| 2 | Where possible the ore , as has been mentioned , was hand dressed in preparation for the long journey to Keswick . |
| 3 | There are references to such ‘ gonnes ’ in accounts of the siege of Berwick as early as 1333 , while it is likely that some form of artillery was brought across the sea by the English for the long siege of Calais of 1346–7 . |
| 4 | — FIT-AGAIN striker Andrew Fletcher is set to be recalled to Scarborough 's side for the long trip to Maidstone on Saturday . |
| 5 | THE FOLLOWING day is Saturday , and the Inspirals rise at some unearthly hour for the long drive to San Francisco . |
| 6 | No cliff-hanger ending for the long saga of the Guinness fraud trials . |
| 7 | A variety of reasons were proffered for the long delay in setting the seal on a deal but drummer Gary Murdoch maintains that ‘ we 've had a string of managers who did n't really know their job ’ . |
| 8 | He watched their departure through a spreading mist , and when the last car had gone and the avenue was silent except for the long sigh of grass , he allowed himself to be taken back to his room . |
| 9 | Most went by road to distribution ports on the local rivers , including the Ouse and Rother , for the long voyage to London or other selling points . |
| 10 | Day Four : A leisurely departure at 10.00am for the long voyage to Trier where you should be safely moored by 3.30pm . |
| 11 | Pleasant to browse but unwise to buy as I could do without the extra weight of heavy tomes for the long haul after the town up past Hay Bluff to the Gospel Pass — a climb to more than 1,750 ft . |
| 12 | Leaving the summit sun-bathers , we scrambled down crags and loose stones to join the track for the long descent to Little Ingleborough . |
| 13 | It was in part because of this love of the specially religious life , and in part because of the affection for the long history of the Church , that he led another pilgrimage ( 1959 ) of several thousand people to Holy Island on the coast of Northumberland and even The Times had a piece about the archbishop walking barefoot . |
| 14 | On the basis of these figures , the authors suggest that any test score can be regarded as falling within seven points of the true score for the short form , and within five points of the true score for the long form of the test . |
| 15 | So in December 1177 in exchange for 15,000 livres angevines ( roughly £4000 ) and forty pack animals — clearly intended to be used for the long pilgrimage to Jerusalem — Henry acquired the whole county of La Marche . |
| 16 | However , there is no point investing for the long term at the risk of being caned in the short term . |
| 17 | Local children were very keen to get work for the long season at Blackpool . |
| 18 | The unit split up into three convoys for the long march to Kufra . |
| 19 | What really moved the men was the ignition of the class war , the excitement of climbing out of the trenches for the long march against the class enemy . |
| 20 | Wordlessly , she led him to her bedroom and turned towards him , reaching for the long zip on his leather suit . |
| 21 | The starting point for the long walk over the heath to the house . |
| 22 | There were other reasons for the long use of the sickle . |
| 23 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 24 | He and his co-pilot settled down in the darkness for the long flight in the cramped cockpit . |
| 25 | This was suspended during the Long Parliament in the middle of the seventeenth century but was restored by the Clergy Act 1661 . |
| 26 | Under RSC Ord 3 , r3 they may be served during the Long Vacation including the month of August . |
| 27 | During the long ministry of Lord North ( 1770–82 ) he seemed for a time to have achieved this objective . |
| 28 | Both the unity of the Cabinet and its independence of the king began to be unmistakably and effectively asserted only after the end of this period , during the long premiership of the younger William Pitt ( 1783–1801 ) . |
| 29 | The tip-tap of her own heels on the pavement was Bridget 's only company during the long walk through the bleak back doubles . |
| 30 | Not for the last time during the long process of negotiation with the GPRA , de Gaulle himself seemed depressed by the impasse . |