Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Those who know better will not rest contented with such a meagre peep of a lake so singularly grand , but will round the hill rather more than another mile to the west , and when the dark lake is full in view , sit down to drink a long look from that favourable point of view . |
2 | We continued into the upper , easier couloir , not realising that most people abseil off to avoid the long haul to the summit . |
3 | * Note Chemical Abstracts Service still prefer the longer chain in this case ie 4-ethenylheptane . |
4 | Moreover , the stochastic events in the model have no effect on the terminal position in either case ; the presence of noise or its magnitude do not alter the long run outcomes . |
5 | Shareholders who do not have a long term commitment are replaced by stakeholders who do , as the ‘ owners ’ of the company . |
6 | Do n't devise a long list of rules for the sake of having rules : make sure they serve a purpose — to enhance your child 's safety– wellbeing and steady ( not hurried ) progress towards maturity . |
7 | And I 'm sure you do n't want a long speech but I 've tried to prepare something , and I hope it 's all right . |
8 | Now we do n't know the long term effect of that , but the experience with the protocol violators suggests that they wo n't come to any great harm , but obviously the number is small . |
9 | However , I do n't like the long dress . |
10 | Then again , after Linda Lusardi and Tonya in just eight months , health and fitness advisors do n't have a long life expectancy on GMTV . |
11 | Now this is set up differently cos this is set up very sensibly , so that you can fill in who wrote it , when , what date and what it 's about , and when you try and find it later it 's easier to find instead of scrapping through lots of files that do n't have a long document . |
12 | Right so I will say no I don I do n't have a long term one , and no I 'm not registered . |
13 | He said he hoped that I would publish it ‘ as I know that people in general do n't understand the long term effects of child sexual abuse ’ . |
14 | You 're not old nan you 've just lived a long time |
15 | Brothers , sisters , President , we 've still got a long way to go . |
16 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
17 | I know that some British civil servants are making considerable efforts to improve erm in these terms but erm I think we 've still got a long way to go in appreciating the importance of at least being able to understand somebody else 's language , erm even if you ca n't always erm communicate in it as well as you can in your own . |
18 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
19 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
20 | In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics . |
21 | Deaf schools in Britain have traditionally had a long involvement in the Scout and Girl Guide movement , but Scouting has not been confined simply to schoolboys and schoolgirls . |
22 | In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying . |
23 | We have indeed come a long way from 1882 , and can look forward to the challenge of the 1990s — the closer harmonisation of our concerns with those of other conservation bodies . |
24 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |