Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stillwater fish are often found in deepish water when the weather is cold and this may entail a longer cast . |
| 2 | For members of the nobility the struggles of Lancaster and York could have drastic results , particularly for those who incurred forfeiture through ending up on the losing side ; although attainders could be reversed and lands restored , this might take a long time ( 130 , Ch.5 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Just tell it the way it happened and try not to get sidetracked , ’ said Melissa , thinking that this could take a long time . |
| 4 | The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access . |
| 5 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |
| 6 | If objectives from the higher categories of Bloom 's taxonomy are included , where students are asked to make judgements , to criticise and evaluate ; and if students are given a range of objectives from which they may make their own choices and even , at the later stages of training , are encouraged to write their own , then this will go a long way to meeting this criticism . |
| 7 | ‘ This will take a long time to sink in , ’ said Breeze . |
| 8 | ‘ This will take a long time , ’ said the Thing . |
| 9 | If employees are provided with detailed information packs on the proposed new area at the time of the announcement this can go a long way to answering some of their questions and thus reducing anxiety . |
| 10 | Biodegradable : Materials will degrade if buried , but this can take a long time ( plastics can take hundreds of years ) . |
| 11 | I know that 'll take a long time to do it though wo n't it ? |
| 12 | That might take a long time , they intimated . |
| 13 | That could go a long way towards avoiding car payments . |
| 14 | An old person who is bedbound may get pressure sores or ulcers in a very short time and these can take a long time to heal ( see page 78 ) . |
| 15 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 16 | So if we could use , insist on issuing licences , that would go a long way to sorting some of these of these problems out . |
| 17 | Starving the defenders out seemed to be the only course , and that would take a long time . |
| 18 | That will take a long time to go I think |
| 19 | Although microchips give machines only a smidgen of intelligence , that can go a long way when sensibly applied by human masters . |