Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [verb] [art] 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 | At a stroke , this would neutralize the long experience of rural discontent between tenants and landlords , it would remove the over-bearing power of landlords in village communities and in the process eliminate one source of support for the ultra-nationalist movement . |
5 | Perhaps that was why he had embarked , without capital , on trying to put up a building , though god knows this would have no long life in Manhattan . |
6 | The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ This will take a long time to sink in , ’ said Breeze . |
10 | ‘ This will take a long time , ’ said the Thing . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Biodegradable : Materials will degrade if buried , but this can take a long time ( plastics can take hundreds of years ) . |