Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 4 | They are borne on a long , stout , fleshy leaf-stalk . |
| 5 | Acyclovir may be given on a long term basis to people with HIV who have had an attack of shingles , or have frequent attacks of herpes simplex . |
| 6 | Such accommodation can often be let on a long lease or sold to raise a capital sum . |
| 7 | A superb outing of this kind can be had on the long Nantlle ridge — comprising six miles and six mountains of excellent high-level walking . |
| 8 | John Maddox , the editor of Nature , wrote in 1982 : ‘ The OED is uniquely a data base … , which will suggest to many that it should by now be stored on a long reel of magnetic tape , floppy disks , or some other means of data storage . |
| 9 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 10 | The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme . |
| 11 | This chapter concentrates on these three national clearinghouses already established , and is based on a longer paper on the subject . |
| 12 | The fact that the BRCA1 gene for breast cancer is flanked on the long arm of chromosome 17 by the THRA1 gene for the thyroid hormone receptor may be important in this respect . |
| 13 | In cases where a tumour suppressor gene is inactivated , repetitive cellular repair may lead to uncontrolled cell division and malignant transformation ; a putative tumour suppressor gene has been described on the long arm of chromosome 17 . |
| 14 | The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff . |
| 15 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 16 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |
| 17 | Her oval face with its large dark eyes and high forehead was set on a long , graceful neck . |
| 18 | Within the hour Robert set out up-river to the ford by Pool , to carry the news across the river to the castellan at Castell Coch ; and before the morning was out , a rider was despatched on the long ride to Llewelyn 's court at Aber . |