Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
2 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
3 | But it is possible to have a covenant which lasts for a longer period , provided that the period is specified in the Deed . |
4 | For me , overriding all practical considerations , there is the spiritual uplift which comes after a long sea passage when , at dawn or evening , I enter some tangle-fringed sea loch with the majesty of the hills reflecting from its still waters . |
5 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
6 | She stands for a long moment . |
7 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
8 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
9 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
10 | It sounds like a long way ? |
11 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |
12 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
13 | It comes in a long roll of 20m , and has a neat perforator which enables you to tear off a strip to the correct length . |
14 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |