Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long [noun] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 2 | After all , they have had a long time to become used to them . |
| 3 | The recently published book Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to correct such assumptions , for it gives a comprehensive account of all British pottery and porcelain manufacturers who are known to have made and/or decorated lustreware — and there was no shortage of them . |
| 4 | It takes a long time to get used to it . ’ |
| 5 | Since it necessarily takes a long time to produce such a report , the mandatory period within which the legal claim should be registered has frequently , even usually , expired before the report is available . |
| 6 | However , the Bill requires those galleries to buy works of art , but it will take a long time to make such acquisitions . |
| 7 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
| 8 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 9 | The investment represents a personal victory for the city 's Principal Arts Officer , Elizabeth Goodall , who has led a long campaign to educate local politicians of the cultural and economic rewards to be reaped from properly investing in the visual arts infrastructure . |
| 10 | Oh they 're taking a long time to get these last two runs are n't they ? |
| 11 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 12 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 13 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 14 | Residents have fought a long campaign to stop some motorists using the roads as a race track . |
| 15 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |
| 16 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
| 17 | Very good very good now a lot of people take a long time to get that . |