Example sentences of "this [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 ) . |