Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at length " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of Moorcroft 's veterinary knowledge and skills , Smith has written at length . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher has talked at length and often about popular capitalism and consumer choice , and she has also said much about freedom and democracy . |
| 3 | ‘ Now Mr Connon , I 'll want to talk at length to you about this , you realize . |
| 4 | Western economists tend to talk at length about theory ; the easterners are mainly interested in practice . |
| 5 | They 'd chatted at length about the progression of the public relations arrangements , about the meeting she 'd just had with the video expert , and Salvo had appeared impressed at the amount of hours she was putting in . |
| 6 | Fo for I would like to talk at length about my new electoral role |
| 7 | It was intended that the Commission 's proposals should be agreed by the Council of Ministers in October 1990 and be implemented by January 1992 ; but the employee participation element in particular is controversial , and animated discussions have taken place , with various Committees of the European Parliament having commented at length and suggested a plethora of amendments . |
| 8 | The question of my health is a difficult one , which I shall have to answer at length in a letter , if you can find the patience to read it . |
| 9 | Having boasted at length of his near-photographic memory and profound passion for poetry , he ends his book by saying ‘ I shall follow the advice of W.B. Yeats : ‘ Do not go gentle into that good night/Old age should burn and rage at close of day . ' |
| 10 | Having dealt at length with the management and , to a limited extent , with the financing of public sector higher education , we shall now consider in more detail the ‘ pooling ’ arrangements that have obtained in recent years and the likely criteria upon which NAB 's financial decisions will be based . |
| 11 | Having dealt at length with the management and funding of the institutions providing higher education in the public sector , we shall now turn to an examination of the validation arrangements which appertain to their courses . |
| 12 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 13 | The London Daily Telegraph of 25 August 1887 , under the heading " A Sailors ' Association " chose to deal at length with the birth of the union , praising its objects , but predicting its early demise : " The North Country " , the article read , " was always the nursery of the famous and best seamen and it is here that we find Jack hard at work originating a fine scheme . |
| 14 | I do not intend to rehearse at length — the opportunity for that will come tomorrow — the powerful arguments , financial and practical , which would support the abolition of this rule at the earliest possible date . |
| 15 | After all , even if the papal documents which he mentioned contained no statements about the primacy , the whole history of the archbishops ' powers as described in Bede 's Ecclesiastical History , which Lanfranc had recalled at length , rested on papal letters conferring the care of the whole country on Archbishop Augustine . |
| 16 | She had thought at length over what he had told her and she felt truly sorry for him . |
| 17 | Minnie had written to her , a short and agonising note , penned with obvious difficulty , and she had replied at length , describing her — horror , Minnie , to hear of these floodings and most of all of the terrible pain which made my own insides contract in sympathy . |
| 18 | J. Percy Bruce chose for his equivalent ‘ law ’ , and so incorporated into the Neo-Confucian terminology itself the wrong answer to the question ‘ Are there laws of nature in China ? ’ , a misunderstanding which Joseph Needham in elucidating the concepts of Chinese science had to analyse at length . |
| 19 | Like another release in the same series — Benedict Mason 's Lighthouses of England and Wales , which I 've reviewed at length below — Birtwistle 's work is also , for all its contemporary superstructure and substructures , a species of tone-poem in a genre that British composers tend to be good at : in this case the quasipantheistic dark-pastoral in the tradition of North Country Sketches , In the Faery Hills , Enter Spring and , perhaps especially , the ‘ Ritual dances ’ from Tippett 's Midsummer Marriage . |
| 20 | We have considered at length why natural monopoly leads to socially inefficient outcomes : too little output and too high a price in that industry . |
| 21 | As I have argued at length elsewhere , retirement is both the leading form of age discrimination and the driving force behind the wider development of ageism in modern societies . |
| 22 | Thus , as we have argued at length in a recent book , ‘ doubly disadvantaged ’ sections of the working class — the unemployed , women , black people , the retired , and the disabled — have especially acute educational needs . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , I have elaborated at length on the reasons why it is implausible to suggest that the first hunters were the ruling males of what Freud termed the ‘ primal hordes ’ , but rather the unmated , younger males of the all-male groups , Freud 's ‘ sons ’ . |
| 24 | I have dealt at length with these tedious and superficially unimportant details because they are the only area of activity in Anselm 's years as archbishop in which a clear , persistent , and deeply felt course of action — such as can properly be described as a ‘ policy ’ — can be detected ; and if we are to understand his mind , we must understand the importance which he attached to this issue . |
| 25 | Previous chapters have dealt at length with market research , sales and market forecasting , consumer behaviour and market segmentation . |
| 26 | Likewise , economists have discussed at length technical aspects of economic policy , particularly macroeconomic policy . |
| 27 | There is very considerable evidence which I have reviewed at length elsewhere that , since parting company with the ancestors of today 's great apes and since acquiring numerous gelada-like adaptations , the human race has been subject to an evolutionary process known as neoteny or foetalization . |
| 28 | The possibility of reason-giving , of being capable of the awareness that one 's life was one way , that it is now different , and that futility is the result , involves , as I have contended at length , the possibility of language . |