Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long [noun] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 2 | But the low priority still given to gender , and the position of women in the foothills of the profession , ( see BSA , 1986 ) together with increased competition for the limited funding available for sociological research in the present political climate , suggest that feminists still face a long struggle to put women 's issues onto sociology 's mainstream agenda . |
| 3 | The couple fought a long battle to get welfare benefits but they were unsucessful until Anita went to the new carers ' centre in Banbury . |
| 4 | It takes a long time to reach Dynjandi , but the weather improves as the day wears on , leaving me with wonderful views across the Arnarfjörđ3ur , its far peaks wreathed in clouds . |
| 5 | But it takes a long time to regain trust . |
| 6 | • If you 're travelling a long way to buy fish , it 's worth asking for them to be bagged separately and , if they are freshwater fish , take a handful of zeolite with your , which the assistant can then drop into the bottom of the bag to help prevent ammonia problems during the journey . |
| 7 | She helped me as much as she could , but I knew it would take a long time to reach Estella 's level . |
| 8 | Does n't it take a long time to change people 's attitude against authority . |
| 9 | The more entrenched feeding problems can be very difficult to treat and take a long time to show improvement . |
| 10 | They also argue that the latest draft of the charter , drawn up by President Mitterrand , has already gone a long way to assuage Mrs Thatcher 's legitimate fears about the loss of British sovereignty . |
| 11 | The plan 's changes should go a long way to drag Lloyd 's up to the standards of other financial markets . |
| 12 | He looked across at the other two , who were laughing and taking a long time to get Maggie 's drink . |
| 13 | You may have recollections of taking a long time to achieve competence in one particular skill , and wonder whether on returning you will be given adequate time to practise and revise . |
| 14 | She agrees with Gnome Pfeiffer ( coauthor of The Experience of Infertility , Virago ) that feminists took a long time to put infertility on the political agenda , and she suggests that this is partly due to attitudes toward motherhood . |
| 15 | The concept that social intervention could have effects unintended by the practitioners , and which could be revealed only by asking the clients for their subjective impressions , took a long time to achieve currency , and had to do battle with the time-honoured attitude in professional practice that the client could not be expected to know what he , or more usually she , wanted . |
| 16 | While some customers took a long time to make decisions , other very complicated projects took longer than anticipated to organise . |
| 17 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 18 | It seems to be working … more families are already making the long trip to see husbands and fathers |
| 19 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 20 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 21 | For one thing they are not really cultivated , mostly because the trees take a long time to bear fruit and even then are not very prolific . |
| 22 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |