Example sentences of "[verb] a long [noun] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face had grown pale at the harshness of the rebuke and he drew a long breath before replying . |
| 2 | The CAB has a long history of mobilising professionals such as lawyers , accountants and surveyors , to advise clients on a voluntary basis but there are very few lawyers who specialise in welfare benefits or money advice . |
| 3 | During a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against NMFS to compel observer coverage of the total US tuna fleet , the legal counsel for Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund stated : ‘ The National Marine Fisheries Service has a long history of ignoring the will of Congress and working closely with the fishing industry . |
| 4 | It may seem obvious to suggest that the level of understanding about purchasing among general practitioners and primary health care teams is extremely varied , but primary care has a long history of suffering from being physically distanced from other parts of the service and the discussions taking place there . |
| 5 | Gaselee , 53 , has a long history in racing in several capacities . |
| 6 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 7 | All three major rail unions are affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Labour party , and the NUR in particular has a long tradition of sponsoring Labour MPs ( Bagwell 1982 : ch. 12 ) , ‘ equalled only by the miners ’ union' ( Eaton and Gill 1981 : 41 ) . |
| 8 | The LGC has a long tradition of providing support services and policy advice to the government . |
| 9 | That area of Aberdeenshire has a long tradition of producing outstanding personalities . |
| 10 | Scotland has a long tradition of exporting its talents . |
| 11 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
| 12 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 13 | It has a long record of allocating high proportions of its annual budgets to defence , even appearing in the market for a submarine fleet in 1986 . |
| 14 | ‘ You horrid little toad , ’ his sister yelled after him in exasperation , foreseeing a long night of sewing ahead of her . |
| 15 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 16 | Environmentalists hailed the decision as going a long way towards meeting the demands of campaigns in favour of preserving Antarctica . |
| 17 | Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed . |
| 18 | Both the Littlewoods actually , Banbury and Oxford are putting up teams , and so are , we understand , fifteen of the NatWest banks in Oxfordshire , so there 's a lot going on and er we think the walks in Oxfordshire are going to go a long way towards raising this vitally needed million pounds for the rainforests this year |
| 19 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 20 | As one would expect , incomers took a greater interest in discussing class — class is supposed to go a long way in explaining the membership of given social networks , and in the scope of such networks . |
| 21 | Such a use of sub-committees goes a long way towards achieving an ‘ open ’ management process . |
| 22 | Logging GNP per capita goes a long way towards holding the midspreads constant by making them similar in size . |
| 23 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 24 | The document before us goes a long way towards providing for the independence of the monetary institution , which will be a crucial element in the success of a single currency . |
| 25 | The interpretation of ‘ mind ’ as information processing with a self-monitoring facility called consciousness goes a long way towards resolving the problem of body — mind interaction which Popper and Eccles ( 1978 ) have recently revived . |
| 26 | This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times . |
| 27 | One study which goes a long way towards identifying dimensions of the culture of the shop floor , and the political relatedness of workers to their enterprise has been completed by Paul E. Willis . |
| 28 | There is a problem with pollution with visual intrusion and noise intrusion which needs to be solved and this goes a long way towards solving it . |
| 29 | It seems to me that this difference in the structure of the schedules goes a long way towards explaining in industrial terms the relative stasis of British television subgenres like sitcom , crime series and soap opera , and the drive towards innovation found in the corresponding genres on US television . |
| 30 | Patronage was necessary , because it was expected that the member of parliament should be able to obtain it , a fact which goes a long way towards explaining the close links between so many Scots members of parliament and administration . |