Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject .
2 The increase had been won only after a long struggle .
3 Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence .
4 Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss .
5 In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation .
6 Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome .
7 That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while .
8 He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun .
9 A rectangular coil is located parallel to a long straight current-carrying wire as shown in Fig. 4.19 .
10 For the concession of hereditary tenure , though made piecemeal over a long period of time , was universal by the end of the century .
11 If on the other hand , a stress is applied slowly over a longer period the material flows like a viscous liquid so that the spherical shape is soon lost if left to stand for some time .
12 All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time .
13 He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time .
14 well either two or four times er turned down on a long handle for pouring things er out of the , I mean like , when I used
15 I have said enough about the long run already , where there will be no more Reykjavik and no more big glass and not even any more lovers .
16 After a print run of , say 100 A4 sheets , the printed sheets are then turned over on the long axis , and the same print is made on the reverse .
17 The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined .
18 The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk .
19 BORED kids are fed up with the long summer holiday and ca n't wait to go back to school , according to a new survey .
20 Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector .
21 And during the next thirty years composers associated with the Académie set his poems , including a translation of the Psalms , to music in which , as Philip Sidney put it , ‘ every semibreif or mynom had its syllables matched accordingly with a long foote and a short foote ’ , not monodic but in harmony with each syllable sung simultaneously in all parts .
22 In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon .
23 This sum is handed over by the long to the short in final settlement .
24 Carl had got home after a long day .
25 I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice .
26 ‘ Listen for its slurred , gulping notes , increasing in speed and loudness , ’ reads one report , ‘ notes which are often drawn out into a long whistling finale . ’
27 Now he was moving slowly as the bark peeled back in a longer and longer strip .
28 Dawn was breaking over Labour 's headquarters in Walworth Road , south London , yesterday as Mr Kinnock stepped on to the balcony , his face ghostly white in the television arc lights and his lips drawn tightly after the longest night of his career , writes Jon Hibbs .
29 We were already worn down by the long night and another was almost unthinkable — our sleeping bags would be a frozen mass of down by evening .
30 The good effects of war can be detected only in the long term , and there were bad effects too , while the consequences of coalition for the party were immediate and almost wholly negative .
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