Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareholder , investment analyst and press criticism of Philips Analytical 's performance over the past two years — not all justified according to Peter Jackson , regional manager for northern Europe — led the company to take a long , hard look at itself . |
| 2 | In simple terms the first questions a bank would ask were : has the business got a long term future ? |
| 3 | But last week , I was informed , the point of my anecdote about the documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe — in which the German film director fulfilled a promise to eat the aforementioned footwear if a friend of his raised the money to complete a long cherished project — was rather lost since ‘ shoe ’ appeared on the page twice as ‘ show ’ . |
| 4 | The lorry driver was real , not a stuntman , because it was thought no one else would have the expertise to drive a long , heavy vehicle at a specific speed . |
| 5 | When the site became available , the University took the opportunity to purchase the long lease for development , both as a public amenity and as accommodation for the Departments of Art History and Music . |
| 6 | The first Plan identified the need to achieve a long term strategy for speed enforcement and to commission a study to determine such a strategy involving enforcement activities , new technology and publicity . |
| 7 | Striking the balance requires a long lead-in period to allow the land to be cleansed of chemicals and to create a fertile environment through natural manuring and crop rotation . |