Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 2 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 3 | Mass is celebrated here at midday , the church having been reconsecrated after a long deconsecration period . |
| 4 | As my hon. Friend rightly said , the construction of the 08 , the fourth boat , is currently under way and authorities have been given for the long lead items . |
| 5 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 6 | Published by the Menil Foundation with Mercator Fonds and Thames & Hudson ( £45 ) , it is aimed at a wider readership , but it will be the essential essay for all students keen to learn how a great scholar 's opinions have been honed over the long years spent in the consideration of Magritte 's art . |
| 7 | Extensive entries for each of the artist 's works are preceded by a long chronology with numbered and itemised sections discussing in detail the major developments in Magritte 's career . |
| 8 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 9 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 10 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 11 | PhosphorImager analysis of Southern blots showed that all of the Ea DH sites had been reestablished in the Long 12 mouse ( see figure legend to Figure 4C ) . |
| 12 | Finally , the most convincing evidence for residual function in animals comes from studies using very coarse stimuli that are presented for a long time . |
| 13 | In this type of study , trend values of consumption and income are collected over a long period of time so that most cyclical fluctuations are smoothed out . |
| 14 | As the ice slowly melts the plants are watered over a long period . |
| 15 | The growth hormone locus has also been mapped on the long arm of chromosome 17 , at 17q 22–24 , close to the BRCA1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families . |
| 16 | Those opening words from Marx 's Capital could have been written about the long postwar boom , the most striking feature of which was a quite breathtaking growth in production . |
| 17 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 18 | It had originally been a short par 4 , but had been turned into a long par 3 . |
| 19 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 20 | it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time . |
| 21 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 22 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 23 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 24 | I think it 's been closed for a long time actually . |
| 25 | The concepts of each civilization , like the soil of its homeland , have been cultivated by a long tradition of directed effort , but in the last resort are not invented but given . |
| 26 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 27 | Piano keys made with synthetic resins or polymer fibres eventually become slippery with sweat from the pianist 's fingers after been played for a long time . |
| 28 | They are borne on a long , stout , fleshy leaf-stalk . |
| 29 | The decision was reported to have been reached after a long and tense debate in which a more moderate current , headed by the Imam Abdelkader al-Hachani , a mining engineer in his early thirties , argued in favour of participation as a necessary step towards the creation of an Islamic state . |
| 30 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |