Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [art] long [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've a long way to go when it comes to these explanations . |
| 2 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 3 | Robert : I need a long nail to go right through . |
| 4 | Although I feel I have a long way to go , I 'm a lot more aware of myself , so whenever I get twinges of pain I adjust accordingly and the pain immediately eases . |
| 5 | But markets provide useful competition with local banks , which have a long way to go before they learn to allocate capital efficiently . |
| 6 | For instance , if you 've a long way to go , it 's better to get there slowly than not at all . ’ |
| 7 | You 've a long way to go yet and a lot to learn . |
| 8 | You have a long way to go to win them back . |
| 9 | Elliott : You need a long piece to go right round him . |
| 10 | We 've a long way to go , pet , and you 've had an exciting day ’ , Tamar said firmly . |
| 11 | ‘ We are going to develop inducements and encouragements for a major expansion of research and development , because if we are going to rival our major competitors we have a long way to go in catching up with them . |
| 12 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 13 | A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’ |
| 14 | The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level , although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go . |
| 15 | So it is clear we have a long way to go before we can store up all the experiences of humankind . |
| 16 | We have a long way to go before society really shifts in attitude , and both men and women assume that caring is not only a woman 's job . |
| 17 | ‘ We have a long way to go before we are able to record and translate accurately such imprints of ourselves left behind in the void of time . |
| 18 | The sponsorship money will be used to upgrade facilities at the Stoop Memorial Ground because , according to chairman Roger Looker , ‘ We recognise we have a long way to go towards what we consider to be adequate facilities , particularly if we sustain our growth ’ . |
| 19 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 20 | This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula . |
| 21 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
| 22 | In an ideal world we would be recycling and re-using everything , but this is n't possible and we have a long way to go before we can turn all our waste into a resource . |
| 23 | We have a long journey to make to the south . |
| 24 | If the comments published in your magazine are typical , even the canoeing fraternity there have a long way to go . |
| 25 | They 've a long way to go if one of these youngsters are to compete at Sydney in the year 2 000 … but already they 've claimed a notable scalp . |
| 26 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 27 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 28 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 29 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 30 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |