Example sentences of "[verb] [art] longer [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are doing purely local journeys , then that may be too much and they may prefer to use the Oxford ringroad , but if they are doing long-distance journeys ten miles is not a very significant addition to their journey in length and the congestion on the Oxford ringroad is such that it may actually be shorter in time terms to go the longer way round in distance . |
| 2 | The important question is whether it fulfils the longer term expectations which the Spanish authorities have invested in it . |
| 3 | However , the z-score for the newly indexed definitions ( using the longer lexicon ) is almost double that of the earlier version . |
| 4 | The church of San Celso , now standing somewhat forlornly beside the bigger , more illustrious church , has the longer history . |
| 5 | This region has the longer history of continuous occupation by tundra , for at no time during the post-glacial period was it invaded by forest . |
| 6 | Nothing about " what it is like " to see blue or red tells us which light has the longer wavelength . |
| 7 | An irritated Dutch official said : ‘ If the Danes can do it with a referendum by July , I do not see why the British would need a longer time . ’ |
| 8 | Oral history does not have to be collected from the very old , though books like Ronald Blythe 's Akenfield and The View in Winter are marvellous examples of such work , while Roberts ( 1984 ) covers a longer time-span . |
| 9 | Now we had originally had this extra facility available er so that we could trade off life against the extra thrust in an emergency but there was clearly the possibility erm that that might be used er when it really was n't necessary and we would end up with extra costs , extra life cycle costs , shorter engine life and it was felt on balance that with a reduced threat overall that it was sensible to take out that facility and to accept a longer engine life , but not , there 's no reduction in the total normal thrust but its merely its override combat facility . |
| 10 | Imagine a situation in which a teacher is telling a pupil to write a longer answer . |
| 11 | I 'll leave others to write a longer report . |
| 12 | Excuse the paper … it 's easier to write a longer letter on foolscap paper ! |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you would enjoy a longer ride on such a lovely night . |
| 14 | Another which could be used , if you want a longer stretch of time for the recording , is the Synchrofax Audio Page ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
| 15 | The historian normally wants a longer perspective and the more time passes , the more likely it is that research will be concerned with change over time rather than with a ‘ snapshot ’ of 1991 . |
| 16 | He had also enjoyed a longer life than his father ; his younger brother Benjamin , to whom we now turn , was not to be so lucky . |
| 17 | Because in plasma cGMP has a longer half-life ( 15 min ) than ANP ( 1–2 min ) , cGMP can be regarded as a more sensitive marker for ANP release than ANP itself in many situations . |
| 18 | Savory has a longer history than sage , though not considered to be as useful medicinally . |
| 19 | If country banks were a product of the latter half of the eighteenth century , country banking functionally defined has a longer history , despite the fact that only a dozen institutions formally known as banks were in existence before 1750 . |
| 20 | If the English writer stops short of uncritical adulation , and also has a longer memory than the Americans for the loathsome politics that Pound was infected by , that is all to the good . |
| 21 | Visible light has a longer wavelength than UV radiation . |
| 22 | It happens to be a physical fact that the light that we call red has a longer wavelength than the light that we call blue . |
| 23 | The main exponents of this approach — writers like Hyman , Beynon and Fox — all take conflict to be a major structural component of employment ; although we should also note that sociology in fact has a longer tradition of exploring the distinctive problems of explanation and understanding associated with industrial conflict ( eg. Eldridge , 1968 ) . |
| 24 | It remains firm in transit and has a longer shelf life before the softening gene finally overcomes the effects of the inserted gene . |
| 25 | The crab has a longer body than the other species shown here , and the legs are flattened and held away from the carapace . |
| 26 | The dose equivalence over 24 hours is more difficult to estimate but since salmeterol has a longer duration of action salmeterol 50 µg twice daily may be equivalent to salbutamol 500 µg four to six hourly . |
| 27 | IAN LUCAS has a longer booklet on Apple Snails available at £3 including p&p |
| 28 | The two noddies are fairly similar , but the lesser has a longer beak and the brown , as its name suggests , has a paler brown back . |
| 29 | However , the strategy also has a longer term aim to upgrade the infrastructure and skills of the region to enable it to compete effectively for investment when congestion costs in the ‘ grand poles ’ become insupportable . |
| 30 | They sometimes get impatient with their counterpart , who necessarily has a longer term perspective and can not work fulltime because of a low salary . |