Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The recently published book Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to correct such assumptions , for it gives a comprehensive account of all British pottery and porcelain manufacturers who are known to have made and/or decorated lustreware — and there was no shortage of them . |
| 2 | Little was known about the products of many of these areas , and much research still needs to be done but Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to redressing the balance . |
| 3 | Sophie drew a long breath , ‘ You have a great variety , but my veterinary training covers most of all these species . |
| 4 | Her face was pale and her voice was as cool as ever , but there was sincerity in her eyes , and Sophie drew a long breath and put out her hand . |
| 5 | Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace . |
| 6 | Romania has a long way to go before it can even begin to climb out of its paralysis . |
| 7 | Such difficult transition demands time and balance and Romania has a long way to go before it is comfortable with its new identity . |
| 8 | IAN LUCAS has a longer booklet on Apple Snails available at £3 including p&p |
| 9 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
| 10 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 11 | Equally , Lyell has the long succession of faunas and floras brought about by a continual , one-by-one extinction of species and their replacement by new ones . |
| 12 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
| 13 | Avenches illustrates the long history of settlement characteristic of Mittelland . |
| 14 | Susanna pulled a long face . |
| 15 | Hyacinth took a long time to respond . |
| 16 | DAMON Hill went a long way towards fulfilling the hopes of his family and army of fans when he grabbed provisional pole position for Sunday 's Monaco Grand Prix . |
| 17 | Bert took a long sniff and looked at Yanto . |
| 18 | Shiona took the long way back to Loch Lomond , via Perth and Comrie and Loch Earn , stopping for a meal at a wayside hotel , then heading south via Glen Dochart just after nine o'clock . |
| 19 | Another time when I was walking with Tony we paused for an hour at Malham to break a long day 's walk from Langcliffe to Arncliffe by Malham and Yew Cogar Scar by the old monks ' road . |
| 20 | Glendenning follows a long trail of Darlington players who have gone to Rovers , but he is unable to force his way into the first team . |
| 21 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 22 | Mary Kaldor discusses the long term significance of the Gulf War |
| 23 | He said that the republican leaders had discussed at the meeting financial and other support for Gorbachev " in the period after his resignation " , and he and Gorbachev had a long meeting on Dec. 23 to discuss transition arrangements . |
| 24 | In fact City handed him his goal on a plate as defenders Peter Atherton and David Busst left a long clearance to each other , and Wright stole in to clinch the outcome . |
| 25 | Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies . |
| 26 | John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions . |
| 27 | While the Duke of Argyll had indeed a well-established interest in the county , and John Campbell of Mamore had a long tenure of the parliamentary seat , it is hardly to be wondered that some of the gentlemen resented that blunt statement of Campbell power . |
| 28 | Linton wrote a long letter back , explaining that his father would not allow him to do that . |
| 29 | In 1971 Hick published a longer account of his own ideas in Arguments for the Existence of God . |
| 30 | His own fear clammying his T-shirt , Trent imagined the long terror the men would suffer , men with no experience of the sea set adrift in the pitch dark and drizzle with the swell building and the rising thunder of surf breaking on the reef ahead . |