Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long deliberation by the jury , Mr Dodd was cleared of wilfully avoiding tax on the considerable sums of money he had hidden , but had to pay large amounts of tax considered owing , as well as legal costs . |
| 2 | After a long campaign by " dry " organizations like the Anti-Saloon League ( founded 1895 ) and after wartime pressures for sobriety and wartime hostility to the brewers , who were mostly of German descent , three-quarters of the states had supported the Amendment . |
| 3 | For until very recently the police made no concession to black street culture , but instead rigidly interpreted and ruthlessly enforced statutory norms of public order , first through the notorious ‘ Sus ’ law ( abolished after a long campaign by black and civil liberties groups ) and then through routine powers of search and arrest . |
| 4 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 5 | The wheel was in active service from 1960 , after a long journey by train from Argyll to Dorset . |
| 6 | Bayazid Jacques , Bourequat Midhat René Bourequat and Ali Auguste Bourequat , who disappeared without explanation after their arrest on July 8 , 1973 , had been the focus of a long campaign by human rights groups . |
| 7 | If the information increases the demand for long positions in the asset by some traders , and decreases the demand for a long position by others , the adjustment path will depend on the sequence in which optimists and pessimists receive the information . |
| 8 | British case at least , the problem of national or ethnic difference was masked for a long period by development occurring in the peripheries at the same rate and in similar ways to development in industrial England . |
| 9 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 10 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 11 | The view that aggression is an integral part of human nature has been strongly argued for a long time by exceptionally articulate and persuasive individuals . |
| 12 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 13 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 14 | Their hard work , efficiency and friendliness helped to produce a day which will be remembered for a long time by all those who took part . |
| 15 | Each came from a long cross by Jamie Webb . |
| 16 | In a long feature by its news editor , it gave all the facts about the neutron bomb and the conclusions to be drawn from them . |
| 17 | The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme . |
| 18 | At each barge they ran down boarding planks for us , sat us on a long bench by the wheel and set about producing tea . |