Example sentences of "[vb -s] long [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain . |
| 2 | The VT is commonly non-sustained but sometimes persists long enough to provoke syncope , or even death if ventricular fibrillation supervenes . |
| 3 | A bright nova flared up here in 1936 , but has long since become much too faint to be seen except with very large telescopes . |
| 4 | A bright nova flared up in Pictor in 1925 , and reached the first magnitude , but has long since become very faint . |
| 5 | ‘ No prospect of the green shoots of economic recovery ’ , said Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson ; ‘ new hardcover literary fiction , unless by well-established authors , will sell , if that is possible , even fewer copies , to the point of virtual extinction ’ , said Tom Rosenthal ; ‘ fiction … has long since become all by a branch of gynaecology ’ , said Colin Haycraft . |
| 6 | It is good to know that Scottish Amicable has long since grown sufficiently to be able to invest in large properties . |
| 7 | This is all well and good until you go looking for a sound that the Quad will deliver only when the output level is quite a way up — at which point your mixer has long since run out of headroom . |
| 8 | All this has long since gone , and the problem of rehabilitation is immense . |
| 9 | The stones of the church are dark with age and the roof has long since gone . |
| 10 | Both of these recent releases from the duo 's Threshold House label tinker with material that has long since gone out of print in an attempt to create something else . |
| 11 | Not far from there , at 7 rue Delta , he had hired a pavilion due for demolition for these artists ( it has long since gone and been replaced by a house ) . |
| 12 | But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! |
| 13 | The medieval castle has long since gone , its site occupied by the great house , built by Sir John Vanbrugh for the fourth Earl of Manchester between 1707–14 . |
| 14 | THE irritating Buzby has long since flown from BT 's nest . |
| 15 | This gripping drama owes much to the shades of menace hinted at in Caffrey 's Man , and the semi-hysterical flutterings of O'Mahoney 's King , who has long since toppled from his throne . |
| 16 | The ability to let go of parts of our past , of parts of ourselves , of fantasies , of dreams that are no longer relevant , of pain that has long since served its purpose , is an essential part of our capacity to grieve and to recreate ourselves . |
| 17 | Perhaps they once had the full response , but the ‘ hammer , hammer on the hard , high road ’ has long since dinned it out of them . |
| 18 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 19 | Predictably , the international media circus , with its Olympian disdain for the parochial , has long since moved on . |
| 20 | This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas . |
| 21 | The whole PWL format has long since lost any spark of life and songs like ‘ Too Much Of A Good Thing ’ and ‘ Finer Feelings ’ are simply uninspiring , totally predictable and tedious . |
| 22 | And people whose intolerance of a food has long since cleared up may continue to react to that food for purely psychological reasons . |
| 23 | I have many examples in my fieldnotes which show this mode of thought to be so ingrained , that even when the possibility of making such a journey ‘ back ’ to basic police work has long since evaporated , the supremacy of the belief still remains : |
| 24 | The ecological setting was similar to that of today , except for an alkaline lake which has long since evaporated . |
| 25 | Even in the 1988 legislation , RE has been referred to as " basic " , although in most people 's minds any substance to that interpretation has long since evaporated . |
| 26 | The Tour has long since given up those occasional easy days known as promenades , when the peloton idled along , especially on the Mediterranean coast , as though on a club run . |
| 27 | Medical sociology has long since given up looking at process — it 's too busy experiencing illness and waffling on about doctor-patient interaction . |
| 28 | Her first bit of advice , especially to older women , is to go through the wardrobe , ruthlessly discarding anything that no longer fits , no longer looks good on us , or has long since seen better days . |
| 29 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 30 | At one time the two water companies were in active competition and any person paying the rates , whether landlord or tenant , could change his water company as easily as his butcher or baker … although this state of things has long since ceased , and the companies have come to an arrangement so that the people can not now change their supply , all the same , the result of their earlier competition remains . |