Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] between " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guido treated her to a long look between narrowed dark eyes . |
| 2 | He remembered a long climb between grey-white boulders to gain a flat ground scattered with lumps of quartz , which glittered like giant uncut gems in the sunlight . |
| 3 | It also ends a long wrangle between Skandia and its two largest shareholders , Hafnia and Uni Storebrand of Norway which had been trying to use their combined 43 p.c. stakes to force a three-way merger . |
| 4 | Businesses that are either very capital intensive or in complex technology , or characterised by a long time-lag between investment and payback , need to have a well-informed head office . |
| 5 | Businesses that are either very capital intensive or in complex technology , or characterised by a long time-lag between investment and payback , need to have a well-informed head office |
| 6 | There was a long delay between the pupils ' arrival and the commencement of the displays and chanting , during which Miss Cackle and the teachers greeted friends and acquaintances , and the girls all stood to attention , being neat and well-behaved and a credit to the school . |
| 7 | Since each baboon interacts with many others , and since there may be a long delay between action and reciprocation , stability requires that a baboon should recognise individuals , and remember how each has behaved , or , at the very least , associate with each individual a positive or negative sign , depending on how it has behaved . |
| 8 | He claimed that the circumstances of putting the death penalty into effect , in particular the likelihood of a long delay between sentence and execution during which time he would be on death row , would constitute an inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 9 | Accordingly , his introduction takes the form of a long conversation between himself and an old man , a Beggar , who approaches him while he is walking in the fields after a sleepless night at Chester 's Inn , where the clerks lived . |
| 10 | Unlike sales for a manufacturing company , the sale of a life assurance product is only the start of a long relationship between the policyholder and the company . |
| 11 | This was the beginning of a long conflict between Conservative Lords and Liberal Commons which lasted until 1911 . |
| 12 | There was throughout his life a long conflict between what may one may call a sort of scientific naturalism in his attitude to the world , and the impulse to hypostatize his ideals , to create out of his ideals erm ideal beings of some kind , and so to worship . |
| 13 | Jean Dubuffet 's ‘ La Calipette ’ of 1961 , for example , bought at Sotheby 's London in April 1990 for £2,530,000 ( $4,427,500 ) went for a mere FFr6 million ( £714,300 ; $1.12 million ) , its low estimate , after a long duel between two telephone bidders . |
| 14 | Where there is a large demand for labour ( or land ) on one side , a population ignorant of conditions in the receiving country on the other and a long distance between , the agent or contractor will flourish . |
| 15 | A long meeting between the captains , umpires and officials concluded that it would be in the best interests of all if Greig 's appeal was withdrawn and Kallicharran allowed to continue his innings . |
| 16 | There is , however , one procedure that has been found to produce apparently the reverse effect — Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) have demonstrated that leaving a long interval between the last session of pre-exposure to the stimulus and the first test session will result in the restoration of an habituated UR while leaving latent inhibition unaffected . |
| 17 | An attenuation of latent inhibition with a long interval between exposure and conditioning has not always been found , even in flavour-aversion learning — Nachman and Jones ( 1974 ) and Siegel ( 1974 ) have found the latent inhibition effect to persist in strength at intervals of much more than 3.5 h . |
| 18 | It is worth noting that there is a delay between diagnosis and reporting of cases of AIDS and that there is usually a long interval between infection with HIV and the development of AIDS , so the published statistics do not accurately reflect the spread of HIV infection . |
| 19 | There was a long silence between them . |
| 20 | There was a long silence between them . |
| 21 | The dangers of such an approach can be seen at its most extreme in Gordon Rattray Taylor 's neo-Freudian interpretation of Sex in History : ‘ The history of civilisation is the history of a long warfare between the dangerous and powerful drives and the systems of taboos and inhibitions which man has erected to control them ’ . |
| 22 | Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries . |
| 23 | As Mittwoch ( 1990 : 125 ) points out , however , the fact that historically make vacillated for a long time between to and zero ( cf. the biblical He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ) calls for a deeper explanation of why the bare infinitive won out . |
| 24 | Indeed , agricultural equipment data should have unusually favourable characteristics that avoid some of the problems that some manufacturing investment data exhibit — most notably the conceptual and estimation problems that occur when there is a long lag between the placement of a new order and its subsequent delivery sometime in the future . |
| 25 | Similar , though less extreme , French claims in Venice , where the ambassador demanded that any holder of a " patent de familiarité " signed by him must be considered a member of his household , led to a long breach between the two states in 1710 – 23 and renewed friction in the later 1720s . |
| 26 | As an Irish prime minister once said after listening to a long debate between his cabinet colleagues : ‘ I understand how it works in practice . |
| 27 | This signalled the start of a long association between Biddle and Stratford Mills , the site being adopted as his main base of operation in the Stroud area . |
| 28 | This began a long association between the royal family and Wilson , who undertook several commissions . |
| 29 | They then either flush the rabbits by tapping two sticks together or by dragging a long line between them across the field or fields towards the net . |