Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long [noun] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Oxenhope Straw Race has a long way to go before it reaches its centenary , but the aims of the people who organise it and take part are the same as those who in the nineteenth century began the hospital sings at Holmfirth and Mapplewell . |
| 2 | The DTI still has a long way to go before it can seriously contest the Treasury 's hegemony over matters economic . |
| 3 | Kubota has at least half a dozen Alpha chips in the labs , but says it still has a long way to go before there is sufficient software support to bring out the Titan 2.0 . |
| 4 | Mister Grant has a long way to go before he will fully recover from his injuries . |
| 5 | ‘ But I rather think my modest , high-minded , fastidious , idealistic wife has a long way to go before she qualifies for that description . ’ |
| 6 | Romania has a long way to go before it can even begin to climb out of its paralysis . |
| 7 | Such difficult transition demands time and balance and Romania has a long way to go before it is comfortable with its new identity . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Mr Lamont has a long way to go before he can recover the confidence of Scottish business leaders . |
| 9 | He has a long way to go but will keep playing as an amateur and then try to qualify for the Britsh open … |
| 10 | He has a long way to go but will keep playing as an amateur and then try to qualify for the Britsh open … |
| 11 | He has a long way to go but he has the right attitude . ’ |
| 12 | This young man has a long way to go if he 's to earn a PhD in Biology like his mum . |
| 13 | And I think it w w was quite difficult for people because they 'd either have to walk a long way to try and make a telephone call . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say . |
| 15 | You 've got a long way to go before you can set up on your own . |
| 16 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 17 | ‘ There are only one hundred mountain guides in the country at the moment , probably because it takes a long time to qualify and the standards are very high . |
| 18 | It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster 's . |
| 19 | But it takes no long reflexion to see that , in this case , if the interrogative is acceptable , then it asks for a straightforward manner adverbial or its equivalent as an answer , and it is not directly related to the sentences in ( 33 ) . |
| 20 | If you are not , the sheets will take a long time to reassemble if they are accidentally dropped . |
| 21 | Be warned though : commercial music can take a long time to clear and can also be expensive . |
| 22 | Then he would move to another par of the bed , away from the cold wet patch that would take a long time to dry and leave a stiff yellow stain on the mattress . |
| 23 | And no matter how fresh the lads might get they 'll have a long way to go before they reach your handling , wo n't they , Andrew ? ’ |
| 24 | The man did n't have a long time to go through a process , he did n't have a long time to find where he was on on the scale , a and er , you know , from one stage to the next stage , to the next stage , to got through a pre-evangelism and then another stage , and another stage , the man did n't have time he was dying ! |
| 25 | These services are still delivered through the traditional hierarchical structures with decisions being ‘ handed down ’ and information from the ground level taking a long time to reach and influence the making of decisions and policy . |
| 26 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 27 | And sewed on the sewing machine and then painted them all with raw linseed oil but raw linseed oil took a long while to dry but they soft . |
| 28 | The four-cylinder engine was more reliable in 1957 , but BRM took a long time to realise that the P25 's air strut suspension — carried over from the V16 — was the cause of its savage oversteer . |
| 29 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 30 | It took a long time to focus and get rid of the swimming water . |