Example sentences of "were [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were given a long account of tritium generation at Mount Mauna Loa and all that and then ‘ by the way here is the neutron spectrum ’ . |
| 2 | Popescu , a former propaganda chief , and Totu , a former Foreign Minister , were given the longest prison sentences , of 5@1/2 years each , while the others received sentences of two to 4@1/2 years . |
| 3 | By now it was painfully clear that an aircraft display hall was the route for the Museum to take , if it were to secure the long term . |
| 4 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 5 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
| 6 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 7 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 8 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 9 | He did not wait for the servants to open the doors , but just pushed through into the entrance hall , and then into the great ballroom where a score of painters and upholsterers were finishing a long night 's work during which they had transformed the ballroom into a silk-hung fantasy . |
| 10 | One hot summer afternoon Tony , John and Pip were cutting the long grass . |
| 11 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 12 | They were gone a long time . |
| 13 | It may be that there is now enough information available to answer questions that were asked a long time ago but never answered . |
| 14 | Now , the mechanical coal-cutter , the conveyor belt , and the steel arch for roof support were quickly supplanting the old hand-methods , and for the stalls were substituting the long face where the coal-cutter undercut a greater length of the coal-seam , and the colliers , instead of working in pairs , now worked in groups , filling the coal on to the moving conveyor belt that ran parallel to the face . |
| 15 | The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway . |
| 16 | ‘ With Lime Grove then , if you were planning a long shot from any particular place you had to be sure the camera could physically get to that exact spot to take it . |