Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minutes record ‘ There followed a long discussion about the merits of bondholders and Dr. G. O'Gorman forcibly made the point that their position and relative control was undemocratic and that their strength was out of balance with their numbers . ’ |
| 2 | When it came , what a bore — no beer , no fancy cheroots , just a long discussion about the validity of putting Sham 69 on the cover . |
| 3 | William Jackson and John Turner had a long discussion about exporting , as they were both inexperienced in such matters , and they listed the strengths and weaknesses of Quality Kraft Carpets in order to arrive at a decision as to which would be the most appropriate overseas market to enter . |
| 4 | Because we had a long discussion about training needs , audits and all this sort of thing . |
| 5 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 6 | I shall write a long poem about what I saw shining from the other side . ’ |
| 7 | 11–8 There is a long poem about Clun Castle by A.J.H. of Port Ellen . |
| 8 | Henry passed her some thin , crustless brown bread and butter and listened to a long story about fox-hunting . |
| 9 | As a consequence of which well we went to Egypt and the Sudan this business , we came back and er the b the the foreman 's brother he ne he never liked me ever this forema when I were a kid you know , he never liked me at all , I never got on with him and and er mind you there 's a long story about that but it 's a silly little thing that er that I really upset him with . |
| 10 | She asked for the secretary and launched on a long story about phoning from a restaurant where a pair of leather gloves had been found apparently left by the lady with Mr Johnston whom one of the waiters had remembered seeing at the sports club . |
| 11 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 12 | He cited as his favourite book a long novel about Lancashire and the cotton industry , which he referred to occasionally , but the great wealth of British literature was both unknown to him and something in which he clearly had no interest . |
| 13 | er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about |
| 14 | He had put off his armour , and rode in black and gold , with high gauntlets of purple leather , and a fine , extravagant capuchon in the same purple draped and twisted into a flaunting hat that drooped a long liripipe about his shoulders . |
| 15 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |
| 16 | A long gossip about the adventures of the last few days , with some exaggeration as the wine flows about the strength of the winds and the size of the waves . |
| 17 | Two men held a long argument about whether the whole thing was an establishment plot to repress gay men 's right to a freely expressed sexuality . |
| 18 | His paper of January 1856 turned out to be only the beginning of a long argument about the need to abolish serfdom in order to put the Russian army on a sounder footing . |
| 19 | Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory , and made a long speech about fascist imperialism . |
| 20 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 21 | I have thought a long time about this and I think I know the answer . |
| 22 | ‘ We have talking for a long time about how the company might change structurally , and many of Alan Gordon Walker 's proposals would have left me with a job that I did n't want to do , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 24 | There followed a long talk about books . |
| 25 | ‘ We had a long talk about the future . ’ |
| 26 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 27 | One of the things we did n't mention , deliberately , which I , I know Richard said they had a long debate about was child labour . |
| 28 | Reason , one might think , for the wary traveller to duck behind the luggage lockers , but no , the assembly listens rapt as John Berger ( for it is he ) embarks upon a long yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 29 | The Independent on Sunday , published three days afterwards , carried a long article about the prospects for local authority compulsory competitive tendering under the Labour government the writer assumed would be in place once the paper was published . |
| 30 | I 'm writing a long article about the horrors of the diet and exercise industry . ’ ) |