Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | In corporate finance , a small group of colleagues can be expected to work long hours together under considerable pressure and conditions of secrecy . |
| 2 | It will also cut training needs at a time when people no longer want to serve long apprenticeships . |
| 3 | Ventura is an excellent package to use if you want to create long and fairly regular documents like technical manuals or books . |
| 4 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 5 | Likewise , regulations imposing anti-dumping duties ( which are in certain respects akin to decisions in the field of competition ) also tend to comprise long and relatively detailed statements of reasons in their preambles . |
| 6 | teachers are highly-trained , well motivated and prepared to work long hours ; |
| 7 | But despite its glamorous image of foreign travel , meeting and dealing with firms ' top executives , and making headlines in the financial press when the deal bursts onto the markets , you have to be very committed and prepared to work long and unsocial hours ( often at weekends ) and be comfortable dealing with people who are often under stress and , in consequence , rude . |
| 8 | He was made to work long hours as a farm labourer and , like thousands of others , he was classed as ‘ Untermensch ’ ( subhuman ) by the soldiers . |
| 9 | Hatters were said to have long hours — " a man goes early and stays late " — but no fixed hours . |
| 10 | Well we have n't got to go long for the shortest day . |
| 11 | I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating . |
| 12 | With more resources needed to remedy long neglect , let alone raise quality of environment to modern standards , and with government bearing down on public expenditure , it is the North of England with its inherited urban-industrial burdens that suffers the most . |
| 13 | The lucky ones had bikes but most had to walk long distances to meet up with their friends . |
| 14 | Two animal rights campaigners have been told to expect long jail sentences after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit arson . |
| 15 | When the flaking is done skilfully , only light hand pressure with a piece of wood is needed to detach long slivers of material which can themselves be used as knives . |
| 16 | Infrared spectroscopy can be used to characterize long chain polymers because the infrared active groups , present along the chain , absorb as if each was a localized group in a simple molecule . |
| 17 | There is a tendency of course for some old people to expect to have long telephone calls of even an hour or more with their |
| 18 | AT&T Co reports from its base in Morristown , New Jersey that it has agreed to supply long distance carrier Teleway Japan Corp with intelligent network software and equipment , in a deal worth over $20m . |
| 19 | So if I 'm going to think long term I 've got to got to work |
| 20 | The fact that many prisoners have routinely had to spend long periods in their cells without access to a toilet , having to use chamber pots and queue up to ‘ slop out ’ , has been a potent symbol of the squalor of British prisons . |
| 21 | We can not afford to overlook the cruel irony enacted by the racist regime of freeing one generation of fighters from the sixties and seventies , while proceeding to serve long sentences on a new generation of fighters of the eighties . |
| 22 | Without such third party activity , CDTV can not hope to have long term success . |
| 23 | Without bothering to close the door , Ludovico began to make long and passionate love to her , teaching her how to take and give pleasure in ways she had never dreamed of . |
| 24 | They did n't have to wait long to find out where she was . |
| 25 | In your do-it-yourself practice you can try to spot long vowels by contrasting two of them with each other in sentences . |
| 26 | You 'll have to wear long tops . |
| 27 | Luckily , they did n't have to search long or far . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't have to search long and hard to achieve this wonderment with America , that 's all I know , ’ says Greg defiantly . |
| 29 | They point out : ‘ During the first year or so , you will have to work long and unsociable hours and may have to go without a holiday or make other sacrifices . ’ |
| 30 | Mind you , there was a lot of us , but still we did have to work long hours . |