Example sentences of "[verb] on long " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Boeing 707 belonging to the Colombian national airline Avianca crashed on Long Island , New York , on Jan. 25 , during a second attempt to land at the city 's John F. Kennedy airport , causing the death of 67 people and injuring some 80 of the remaining 91 people on board . |
| 2 | A dry sleeping bag at the end of a long night watch in foul weather is something to be dreamed about , but , alas , rarely happens on long voyages . |
| 3 | If properties let on long leases to tenants of the highest covenant are sold for cashflow or balance sheet enhancement the substance of the group will have been sacrificed for short-term advantage . |
| 4 | It only considers properties let on long leases to blue chip companies . |
| 5 | But the future of this airline could be decided much sooner than that , and with it the levels of service and fares we can all expect on long haul flights . |
| 6 | It 's something I can do on long , boring evenings and gives the recipients a lot of pleasure . |
| 7 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 8 | Fleet standard is well illustrated with many photographs of the Dennis vehicles operated on local deliveries together with examples of the AFC flats and tankers used on long distance services when these were operated by Whitbread of which I can recall observing on their journey between London and the depots at Ashton-Under-Lyne and Stockport . |
| 9 | In mediaeval times cider was given to sailors bound on long voyages partly as a palliative for scurvy . |
| 10 | F1 Cherry Delicious bite-sized fruits borne on long trailing Wonder trusses ; good disease resistance ; free from greenback ; greenhouse , outdoors , cordon . |
| 11 | These are borne on long , wiry , numerously branched stems with nodes . |
| 12 | These are followed by floating leaves borne on long stalks ; these leaves being slightly darker than the juvenile ones , sometimes undulated and with a prominent midrib bearing four to five parallel veins . |
| 13 | The next leaves are floating ones borne on long stalks . |
| 14 | The leaves are pale green , fleshy , almost round with a wavy edge , up to 4ins ( 10cms ) long , borne on long , slender , translucent leaf-stalks . |
| 15 | They are borne on long , green stalks . |
| 16 | They are borne on long , branching stems which are also reddish-brown . |
| 17 | They are borne on long , wiry stems . |
| 18 | It was a style of forward play Chapman had adopted at Northampton Town , based on long , low passing and direct assault . |
| 19 | They are all based on long experience of examinations of the type concerned , and ensure that your paper is efficiently marked . |
| 20 | The thing is , Bob , if I may give you some advice based on long and hard experience , not to start off by renting somewhere , if you can possibly avoid it . ’ |
| 21 | In perfect unison , based on long marital experience and an infinitesimal twitch of the eyebrows , Desmond and Margaret Seymour-Strachey rose from their chairs and began making the ritual noises . |
| 22 | They were mounted on long wheelbase trucks fitted with Lycett & Conaty radial gear in which the axles pivoted about the motors and there were no motor support springs , but there were very large protruding axle-boxes . |
| 23 | The money was raised on long term , mainly for forty years , and carried a high rate of interest . |
| 24 | She was often forced to spend months apart from her husband as he embarked on long tours . |
| 25 | Fares on InterCity will relate to ‘ what the market can bear , ’ with real increases focused on long distance commuters . |
| 26 | And there was a warning of the effect proposed cuts in British aid would have on long term projects in the third world … |
| 27 | Small , lance-shaped , dark green leaves are arranged on long stems in whorls of 6–8 . |
| 28 | Intercity buses in the United States carry 375 million passengers a year across more than a billion miles — quite a legacy from the first US bus service which operated on Long Island in 1899 . |
| 29 | Over the years Skarsnik has amassed a large collection of Dwarf beard scalps which he displays on long wooden stakes driven into the mountain side . |
| 30 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |