Example sentences of "of [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages include those associated with the interferometer ( see above ) and the associated computer , those associated with the high-power directed beam of the laser , which may also be operated in pulses rather than continuously , and also the virtual elimination of fluorescent background signals because of the long wavelength of the laser radiation . |
| 2 | Relatively comfortable himself , Charsky suffered every moment of the long night with Kurz . |
| 3 | Shortly after the meeting of the Long Parliament in 1640 Chidley published her first tract , The Justification of the Independent Churches of Christ ( 1641 ) , a refutation of the arguments of Thomas Edwards [ q.v. ] for hierarchical , centralized church government , and a biblical defence of congregational and wifely autonomy . |
| 4 | At the time of writing , the first batch of prosecutions had collapsed in the magistrates ' court , on account of the long delay in launching the prosecutions against those involved . |
| 5 | Whatever the Admiralty 's feelings on the matter , the determination of the shipwrights to cling to their perquisite must be viewed in the context of the long delay in paying wages . |
| 6 | The frustrations of the long struggle in Korea , combined with McCarthy 's campaign , suggested that America 's problems resulted from a " softness on communism " that pervaded the Truman administration . |
| 7 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |
| 8 | The thought of the long climb to the top of the house always daunted him . |
| 9 | It is an immediate , positive image which embodies the character of this production , and indeed of the long tradition at Peter Cheeseman 's Vics Old and New . |
| 10 | This ‘ blanket ’ is a generous fold of skin stretching from the side of the neck to the tips of fingers and toes and extending to the tip of the long tail on each side of the body . |
| 11 | Of course the other major factor that had an impact on policy and practice in the later 1970s was resource constraints — the end of the long expansion of local authority staffing and budgets since 1948 , and of the rapid growth of the early 1970s . |
| 12 | Many hundreds of Londoners have moved out into the central south region , opting for a cheaper home at the cost of the long journey to work . |
| 13 | The social prerequisite of the long trend in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries towards lower crime and disorder , and greater police acceptance , was the historical process of working-class incorporation . |
| 14 | ‘ Seeing only the whirlpools and counter-currents but not the progress of the long river of history only reveals the observer 's political short-sightedness . ’ |
| 15 | During most of the long development of the civilization , there was an overt delight in the natural world and its forms . |
| 16 | Li , a veteran of the Long March of 1934-35 and a commander of the Red Army prior to its revolutionary victory in 1949 , was a self-taught economist from a peasant family . |
| 17 | The visible sufferings of the Croats before they had travelled five miles were terrible ; their invisible sufferings , with the prospect of the long march before them , many barefoot and without hope of food before they reached Maribor at the earliest , must have been indescribable . " |
| 18 | The Royal Fine Art Commission , while regretting the loss of the long facade by Kirkland , felt that a tall building was needed to act as a gateway from the M8 . |
| 19 | She and Corrie were allowed to play while the other children attended lessons in alphabets and multiplication tables , but they sat at one end of the long playroom like wilting flowers , still too unhappy at their uprooting to do anything . |
| 20 | That outcome of the long process of evolution which will enable them to govern the uses of their own physical mechanisms . |
| 21 | It marked the end of the long process of transformations — starting with the seething leaves of the plant , then the reeking green stage of the first steepings , and the sulphurous yellow stage of the liquor before it was exposed to the air , then binding with the air , it gradually turned to blue . |
| 22 | The people began to recover from the horrors of the long war with Chaos and for a while the population grew . |
| 23 | Power seemed to be moving towards Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who was arguing that his country needed to mend bridges with the rest of the world in order to rebuild Iran , following the end of the long war with Iraq . |
| 24 | Such long term fixed rate financing opportunities may not be so readily available in the future , with the chance of the corporate sector being crowded , or priced , out of the long end of the market . |
| 25 | In many cases the buildings show the Nordic influence of the long house with farm buildings attached , sheltering man and his animals under the same roof , and the gallery may be on the house or barn . |
| 26 | Joan Waters , too , was left in peace apart from the following two minor incidents which may have been attempts to impress upon her that she had not moved beyond the reach of the long arm of the undercover services . |
| 27 | While the inherited allele is mutated , the normal allele is subsequently deleted in a somatic , mitotic event involving variable sized fragments of the long arm of chromosome 5 . |
| 28 | During the exploration of the long arm of chromosome 5 for the APC locus , deletions and point mutations were identified in a second large gene named MCC ( mutated in colorectal cancer ) . |
| 29 | During the day 7 Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 26 ‘ Schlageter ’ landed at Gela , Sicily , on completion of the long flight from Germany . |
| 30 | At the time of writing , the THORP plant is in fact nearing completion , and the Sellafield management is boasting of the long list of multimillion pound contracts it has already won to reprocess nuclear fuel from around the world . |