Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [to-vb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you live in the centre of a large town , they may need to fly a long way . |
| 2 | Wherever possible , a tenant should endeavour to delete the opening proviso but this is unlikely to be successful in which case the tenant should amend to include a long stop date ( see clause 5.4 ) . |
| 3 | If you are wearing trousers you 'll have to wear a long top so it does n't show anything . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll have to wear a long coat . |
| 5 | We might have to look a long way back . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd like to have a long talk to you about her . ’ |
| 7 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 8 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 9 | But do n't pick up any more thorns , Hlao-roo , because we may have to go a long way . " |
| 10 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 11 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ You would have to go a long way to see a better game than that . |
| 13 | ‘ Undoubtedly , you would have to think a long while before knowing which you prefer . ’ |
| 14 | I shall have to have a long talk with the Lord beforehand . ’ |
| 15 | The Government says it will work to salvage a long term future for the company . |
| 16 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |