Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dock company in due course took a long lease of the area in question from the Secretary of State for Defence , although the ports authority insisted that the necessary planning consent be obtained before the lease was signed . |
| 2 | In September 1861 Valuev wrote a long paper on the progress of emancipation which concluded by acknowledging that " Sometimes the need arises to legitimize things which have not been and could not have been envisaged by a law " . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the retired admiral spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 4 | There is a clear value in reducing the amount of chemical waste which has to be got rid of — and that thinking has a long way to go . |
| 5 | Ascending its professional hierarchies takes a long time . |
| 6 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times . |
| 8 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 9 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |
| 10 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 11 | ‘ The writer of this article lives a long way from Washington and would not know the answers to these questions . ’ |
| 12 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 13 | But then , all this business happened a long time ago . |
| 14 | He called in his full executive to meet us and I 'm sure at the end of the day that this meeting went a long way to the tour going ahead instead of being cancelled ’ . |
| 15 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
| 16 | While some customers took a long time to make decisions , other very complicated projects took longer than anticipated to organise . |
| 17 | follow the pattern , but there again this stuff goes a long way |
| 18 | But some memories take a long time to go … especially when they 're being preserved by Historical enthusiasts . |
| 19 | The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think . |
| 20 | The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes . |
| 21 | A little careful planning goes a long way . |
| 22 | Her later research in this area involved a long study of the complex genetic interactions in Matthiola incana , on which she published twenty-two papers . |
| 23 | It might be early days but this approach falls a long way short of forging a relationship with the viewer and when he turned to the big screen to ask a reporter a single question , it came across as completely contrived . |
| 24 | Marine sponges have a long fossil record from the Cambrian onwards , and at many localities they are abundant enough to be important rock formers . |
| 25 | But the ruler who likes to be driven around in a sinister black Range Rover with dark tinted windows casts a long shadow of fear . |
| 26 | The Daily Telegraph carried a long story without mentioning my name , since Michael Berry was well disposed to me and had no wish to cause me embarrassment . |
| 27 | The Daily Telegraph published a long article from me on the subject on its editorial page . |
| 28 | What is of particular interest is that direct investment overseas by such enterprises has become increasingly important over the post war years ( as opposed to portfolio investment , of which British capital has a long tradition ) , and that this phenomenon is especially important for the British economy . |
| 29 | However , it is necessary to emphasise that exploration of materials such as sand , clay , soil and wood for sheer delight , without the intervention of an adult , is extremely important and for some children lasts a long time . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |