Example sentences of "[noun] can [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fan assisted cabinets have a very rapid recovery following an air change , whereas plate evaporator designs can take a long time to return to the correct storage temperature . |
| 2 | Since very small , light animals can fall a long way without being hurt , it 's quite likely that it survived in the forest world under the tree and had the second most interesting experience any tree frog has ever had . |
| 3 | In addition to the occasional attendance at rehearsals by the incumbent , positive words of appreciation can go a long way in making the musician feel that the job is worthwhile . |
| 4 | ‘ Broke , and I can see that 2.1 disappearing over the event horizon , but fuck it ; I 've still got my integrity and my Möbius scarf , and a boy can go a long way with those things . |
| 5 | It may be that , over time , education can take a long term view of itself through the medium of the successful business . |
| 6 | The erm difference in cer some things can seem a long time ago and some are relatively recent . |
| 7 | Like a wound in your own flesh , a clean cut heals quickly , but a jagged , ragged , bruised gash can take a long time to heel and is open to infection all that time . |
| 8 | Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender 's choice and arrangement of information in communication . |
| 9 | A good footnote can go a long way . |
| 10 | Defending a petition can take a long time and be expensive . |
| 11 | Good stakes can last a long time , but it does help if they are cut some months before they are used , and well seasoned . |
| 12 | Be warned though : commercial music can take a long time to clear and can also be expensive . |
| 13 | Happy couples can take a long walk , without a word spoken , for the quality of silence says it all . |
| 14 | The morphological system can require a long time to obtain the syntactic information for a word . |
| 15 | But genes can act at a distance ; extended phenotypes can extend a long way . |
| 16 | Analysed , considered and acted upon these facts and the others also available from your sales ledger can go a long way towards helping you make your business more efficient and profitable . |
| 17 | Keeping up to date with developments in your own specialty can go a long way to adding to your confidence . |
| 18 | Cuffs and hem are knitted , and though this does n't suit everyone — the knitting can take a long time to dry out if it gets wet — I do n't find it unacceptable . |
| 19 | Reconciling yourself to making the final decision can take a long time and be very painful . |
| 20 | The idea of language function can go a long way towards solving this problem of what binds utterances together as discourse in the absence of formal links . |