Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long service awards for trio of Terriers THREE part-time soldiers with nearly 70 years in uniform between them have been honoured for long service . |
| 2 | Another problem is that if the remedies are given for long periods , as they often are , the patient may start to prove the remedy , developing a new set of symptoms . |
| 3 | Again some instincts have been developed through long continued and inherited habits . |
| 4 | Ideals have always been developed over long periods of time as the result of historical evolutions and through exceptional personalities . |
| 5 | Small , lance-shaped , dark green leaves are arranged on long stems in whorls of 6–8 . |
| 6 | All three had been assigned to Long Kesh Prison near Lisburn to await trial . |
| 7 | Aero-engines are designed for long life , which is adversely affected by harsh throttle movements , rapid heating and rapid cooling . |
| 8 | Disappointing findings have recently been reported from long term follow up studies of school based interventions in North America . |
| 9 | In humid forest ( K conditions ) by contrast , plumage colour does not change seasonally , monogamy is the rule , and colonies are occupied for long breeding seasons with individual pairs breeding in successive relays . |
| 10 | In towns and cities which are occupied for long periods of time , there is a continuous process of old buildings being demolished and levelled for the construction of new ones , which in turn become old and are demolished . |
| 11 | The exhibitions in question , each receiving a challenge grant ranging from $30,000 to $50,000 , are located in Long Beach ( California ) , Atlanta , Houston , Columbus ( Ohio ) , New York , Chicago , Washington D.C. , Los Angeles and Boston . |
| 12 | For long hauls the rivers still remained more important than roads in NEP , despite the fact that many of them flow to the Arctic and are frozen for long periods . |
| 13 | He has now been transferred from Long Lartin prison to Bullingdon Prison at Bicester . |
| 14 | The suggestion was that just as the energy of electrons is discharged in discrete amounts , or quanta , so energy is expended in near-shore sedimentary environments within short time intervals that are separated by long periods of relative calm . |
| 15 | A number of people have already been sentenced to long prison terms in connection with the robbery . |
| 16 | All had been sentenced to long prison sentences for the " dirty war " against left-wing guerrillas and dissidents , during which an estimated 9,000 people " disappeared " and thousands more were abducted , tortured and murdered . |
| 17 | The human rights organization Amnesty International on Dec. 10 issued a report on Myanma listing some 200 people arrested in the country during the first seven months of 1991 , nearly 40 of whom had been sentenced to long prison terms after " blatantly unfair " trials . |
| 18 | A regional Communist Party leader before the 1989 revolution which overthrew his father , he had been sentenced to long prison sentences for murder ( later overturned ) and other crimes [ see pp. 37725 ; 38306 ] . |
| 19 | These glands are connected to long , pointed , hollow teeth that act as hypodermic needles , injecting the lethal liquid into the victim 's flesh . |
| 20 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 21 | In this research , palynology was dominant for many years but subsequently enormous potential has been offered by research developed by F. Oldfield on mineral magnetic properties which are valuable because many magnetic properties are environmentally diagnostic , are preserved for long periods in many situations , and have parameters which are easy to measure . |
| 22 | They have an average life of 5,000 hours and are , therefore , much more economical to use in places where high levels of light are needed for long hours at a time . |
| 23 | This latter is the product of teaching which uses for its arbiter of right and wrong , contentious standards which have been produced from long established religions which in turn claim to have mystic knowledge of right and wrong supplied by some extraterrestrial and undefined ‘ god ’ . |
| 24 | Thus , single-word terms or ( failing an appropriate single word term ) two word terms are preferred to longer terms in describing concepts . |
| 25 | The bedrooms are reached through long open corridors of marble . |
| 26 | These are borne on long , wiry , numerously branched stems with nodes . |
| 27 | They are borne on long , green stalks . |
| 28 | They are borne on long , branching stems which are also reddish-brown . |
| 29 | They are borne on long , wiry stems . |
| 30 | But , having been blessed with long , slender legs and what Paul described as a model-girl 's figure , she was used to being stared at , so she walked past them with her normal slightly coltish grace , her composure intact . |