Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the context of the mid-Sixties , when Britain 's chaotic labour relations were deemed to be among the world 's worst , such good-natured willingness to work long hours , doing all kinds of jobs , for sums of money that were not vast , are extraordinary . |
| 2 | But put aside the party point scoring and one indisputable fact emerges which will readily be agreed by all health service staff are a breed apart with their dedication to duty , willingness to work long hours and commitment to patient care . |
| 3 | These regions come together in the precursor rRNA transcript to form long stem structures that serve as site for processing by RNase III ( 6 , 7 ) . |
| 4 | Borrowing and lending of stock is facilitated by eight ( at end 1991 ) Stock Exchange Money Brokers ( SEMBs ) who , as well as acting as brokers in the actual loan of stock , make loans to GEMMs to finance long positions and stand ready to borrow from them any surplus funds arising out of short positions . |
| 5 | Police have advised the expected 90,000 Nottingham Forest and Manchester United soccer fans converging on Wembley to expect long delays and to reach the stadium via the A40 and M40 . |
| 6 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 7 | A screening programme for high blood pressure and related risks , begun in 1968 and sustained for 21 years in a defined community , gave us an opportunity to study long term management of high blood pressure in young adults in a social context , with data collected prospectively on originally unsuspected associations . |
| 8 | It 's vital that as the economy improves we find ways to enable long term unemployed people to compete positively for jobs . |
| 9 | One alternative often offered by professionals as a solution to personal assistance needs requires young people to work long hours for a ‘ dole plus ’ package . |
| 10 | All this could be done by giving a life estate to the head of the family ; with the remainder to his sons successively in tail-male , with remainder to the daughters in tail , subject to a rentcharge in favour of the life tenant 's widow upon his death , and in favour of any other persons desired to be benefited ; and with power to the trustees to create long leases in the property for the purpose of charging the lease in order to provide portions for younger sons and daughters who did not inherit the land . |
| 11 | Without wishing to sound like Scrooge , we trust that all the decisions to take long holidays are based on sound business sense . |
| 12 | Our eyes lit up on reading in the Wall Street Journal that the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has said that it plans to respond to foreign competition by rebalancing its telephone call charges to make long distance calls cheaper and local calls more expensive , but it was a false alarm and you can all go back to sleep again : the piece goes on to quote an official saying that no decision about a rate structure had been made and that any change wo n't occur before 1995 at the earliest . |
| 13 | It is the first small step towards growing crops in space to make long spaceflights self-sufficient in food . |
| 14 | Where once you were making a conscious effort to cast long and accurately and were aware of the amount of punch you needed to put into the strike , you will find that with experience you begin to do these things quite naturally . |
| 15 | In the use of the theories to analyse developments within the UK , however , there have been attempts to link long waves to the changing nature and pattern of uneven development . |
| 16 | While some pensioners have sufficient money to take long holidays and enjoy a comfortable retirement , many find it difficult to manage on their weekly income . |
| 17 | With a home market of just over 1,500,000 people many Northern Ireland businesses have had to develop markets outside the Province in order to sustain long term growth . |
| 18 | Elderly parents may begin to feel tense and unsure of their previous social skills and ability to sustain long conversations with visitors , or may tire very quickly , which may lead them to start placing obstacles of one kind and another to people coming to the house at all . |
| 19 | And the best way to dry long hair is with a hooded hairdryer . |
| 20 | He has shied away from too many tournaments and has escaped the pressures of London , including his 10-month-old daughter Kiveli to spend long periods with Grandmaster Lubosh Kavalek , his trainer , in Virginia . |
| 21 | ‘ They have not yet admitted that none of my proposals would force a patient to travel long distances for treatment against his or her will ; that no doctor will have any new financial incentive to refuse elderly patients on to his list . |
| 22 | Fish instinctively fight their way upstream against the current , and many water birds and animals have the ability to travel long distances . |
| 23 | The importance of doing courses at an institution closer to home is not surprising when one considers adults are likely to have commitments which limit their ability to travel long distances or stay away from home . |
| 24 | Pesticides alone are not the best way to achieve long term control of agricultural pests . |
| 25 | We could n't go so easily to theatre , opera or ballet , for it was painful for Michael to remain long in one position . |
| 26 | No man finds it easy to sleep the night before a battle , Charlie had been told , and many used the time to write long letters to their loved ones at home ; some even had the courage to make a will . |
| 27 | Those who ask for reports have no time to read long ones- nor will they take the trouble to unravel texts like the example given above . |