Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pros fear the long bunker shot as much as amateurs do . |
| 2 | Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success . |
| 3 | Whichever you choose , you may believe you are responding to current fashion trends , but , in fact , both styles boast a long ancestry . |
| 4 | The Norwegians choose a long ridge walk to go back to the camp and by the time they have arrived , Tony and I have decided to take the kayaks out on to the Ocean . |
| 5 | The job losses reflect a longer term malaise in IBM 's position . |
| 6 | Single gas instantaneous water heaters have their place alongside a storage system ; the main problem with relying on a gas multi-point heater to provide all the house 's hot water is the low flow rate which means baths take a long time to fill . |
| 7 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
| 8 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 9 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 10 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
| 11 | Close to the centre however , lines of sight on the far side are actually brighter because the stellar densities sampled are almost the same , but the lines of sight on the far side traverse a longer path of stars . |
| 12 | The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change . |
| 13 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 14 | The agronomists ’ reports on the spring-sowing campaign reveal a long list of mainly unfulfilled bureaucratic resolutions passed down from Moscow . |
| 15 | England get the long rest because their five group matches have been squeezed into seven days while other teams , like Pakistan , the hosts , have their pool games spread over eight . |
| 16 | England get the long rest because their five group matches have been squeezed into seven days while other teams , like Pakistan , the hosts , have their pool games spread over eight . |
| 17 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 18 | Also the carbs on the SD1 V8 engine take a long time to return to idle when you take your foot off the throttle . |
| 19 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |
| 20 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 21 | So our gardens represent a long steady stream of introductions with occasional ‘ eruptions ’ as new and botanically rich areas of the world opened to the West . |
| 22 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 23 | Such expectations seem a long , long way from what Kael regards as cinema 's golden era , the emergence in the late Sixties/early Seventies of stellar talents like Scorsese , Coppola , Altman and Bertolucci . |
| 24 | Because I 'm because John Gummer 's responsibilities extend a long way into things like housing and stuff as well do n't they ? |
| 25 | Usually the microscope will provide a wider viewing field but a short working distance , whilst the telescope give a longer working distance but smaller field of view . |
| 26 | It 's the one room that has in some way to accommodate the changing interests of all members of the family ; it 's also the room that is most on show , the room where your guests stay the longest . |
| 27 | Then a European Commission report showed that British workers do the LONGEST hours in Europe — for FIFTH RATE pay . |
| 28 | It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold . |
| 29 | However , there are smarter , more classic options : the French like the three-quarter length , belted version ; the Italians prefer the longer camel greatcoat . |
| 30 | A CAB interview with scant attention to emotional problems is generally lengthy because forms are complex ; because benefit calculations take a long time ; because contacting the Department of Social Security on the telephone takes even longer and calculating an equitable distribution of debt repayments longer still . |