Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Navigational and communications equipment includes Furuno radar , 2 Magnovox Transit Sat Navigators , Furuno weatherfax , Northstar Loran , and C Plath Gyro A/P , along with Village Maker Watermaker and stabilizers enabling long range cruising to be a pleasure . |
| 2 | Shortly three carloads of young women arrived , followed by the limousine carrying Long John Silver . |
| 3 | A grim Panorama programme on BBC television on May 17th highlighted the problems of Britain 's increasingly insecure workforce : milkmen working longer hours for the same money , CD stackers sacked just before the two years after which their jobs would be legally protected , betting-shop workers thrown out if they refuse to work evenings . |
| 4 | The early release of prisoners serving long sentences of determinate duration was supported , although in the same way as the Longford report to the Labour Party eighteen months before , the policy group added a proviso that the Home Secretary should in all cases consult an advisory body before doing so . |
| 5 | Research conducted by NASA-Ames has shown that crews flying long sectors were more alert during approach and landing if they had been allowed to nap while cruising . |
| 6 | Chanel has published advertisements of Claudia Schiffer wearing long dresses , but out of the studios Miss Schiffer also wears short skirts . |
| 7 | Transgenic mice containing Long and Short Ea constructs |
| 8 | As it so happened , emerging civilisation created communities in various parts of the world , spaced at intervals covering long periods of time , each community being unaware of the others , and each developing some form of religion and worship . |
| 9 | From personal experience she knew and understood the problems of individual study , the difficulty of sustained reading and written work following long hours of manual labour . |
| 10 | This meant that , although hydrogen was more expensive to produce , it enabled the dimension of balloons to be minimised , in addition to its nature allowing longer flights over greater distances . |
| 11 | In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics . |
| 12 | This is partly blamed on applicants waiting longer for a property to become available in their ‘ first choice ’ housing area . |
| 13 | The Republicans placed an advertisement making a link between Mr Florio and the Mafia , which the Democrats have countered with ads referring to Mr Courter as a liar and showing his nose getting longer — Pinocchio-style - as he speaks . |
| 14 | ‘ Have these done by next week , ’ he said , and in class that day wrote a special sum for Endill involving long division , multiplication , logarithms , complicated geometry and fractions that stretched out the door and into the main corridor . |
| 15 | Thus social workers undertaking long term care tasks would : |
| 16 | When she woke the little room was still quiet , but the sun had moved from the window and was beginning to dip behind the hillside , the cypresses casting long shadows over the tailored lawns . |
| 17 | Of these , eight involved mentions in the national newspapers , so while the number of mentions in the national press of assaults against females is similar to those against males , there is a much greater likelihood of the female assault cases getting longer media coverage . |
| 18 | Of the comfortable paternalism of large estates providing long and useful employment for their servants . |
| 19 | Individual psychological treatments entailing long sessions with any kind of therapist seem of limited value in general practice and make little economic sense . |
| 20 | Rope 's not rope , ‘ s elastic , ‘ s getting longer and longer , I 'm going down , an' down , an' down — I 'm looking down — an' 's a whirlpool — steaming … ’ |
| 21 | Through asking open questions requiring longer answers : ‘ how ’ questions are especially useful . |
| 22 | Distances getting longer , tape measures getting shorter — either way , it comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 23 | However , some radionuclides having longer half-lives or being more rapidly dispersed can become globally distributed . |
| 24 | An aerial view of Kei Wais showing Long Creek in The far background . |
| 25 | Canals also linked together the stagecoach and railway networks making long distance journeys easier . |
| 26 | The conservatory was still empty , the lamps burning low , the moon casting long silver shadows over the terrace beyond the wide patio doors . |
| 27 | At the beginning of her Preface to Divine Songs and Meditacions , Collins claims she undertook to write : ‘ Being through weakness to the house confin'd/My mental powers seeming long to sleep ’ . |
| 28 | In hills and plains , women and children spend hours travelling long distances to collect fuel . |
| 29 | As 11:00 approached , his companions watching from the spaceship would find the intervals between successive signals from the astronaut getting longer and longer , but this effect , would be very small before 10:59:59 . |
| 30 | For example : Law 2 argued that urban areas will absorb the population of first their immediate rural areas and then even the remote areas ; Law 6 stated that urban dwellers are less migratory than rural inhabitants ; and Law 5 argued that migrants proceeding long distances generally migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |