Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people and firms want to borrow money for long periods of time , and yet many depositors want to be able to withdraw their deposits on demand or at short notice . |
| 2 | Borrowers , on the other hand , often need to borrow money for longer periods of time , as in the case of industrial investment or house purchase . |
| 3 | The company says it has been able to generate high levels of repeat income from long term contracts in the financial services area and is keen to collaborate with other suppliers to expand its service and product range . |
| 4 | Having said that , it is important to add that interaction rate is also related to children 's age : older children are usually expected to sustain concentration for longer periods than younger children . |
| 5 | Skanform panels enable refurbishment of existing clean environments to a high standard of quality and hygiene without expensive and complicated installation procedures , while allowing investment in long term reliability and cost effectiveness . |
| 6 | The quality of anal continence was assessed clinically by two doctors who questioned each patient about faecal leakage by day and during sleep , the need to wear a pad , anal soreness , the ability to defer defecation for longer than 15 minutes , and the ability not only to discriminate between flatus and faeces but to release flatus safely without having to visit the lavatory . |
| 7 | Natural colourant adds richness to long , wavy hair . |
| 8 | Bellsdyke unit requires nursing staff to inform medical staff and the ICN if three or more patients have symptoms of enteric illness , or if an individual has diarrhoea for longer than a day . |
| 9 | Some preferred to suffer occupation for longer , than to achieve freedom before local institutions were robust enough to ensure that they were not swept aside by a newly installed government of ‘ outsiders ’ . |
| 10 | A more general indication of his interests is given by the catalogue of his library , which he drew up in 1632 , when he had just moved house to Long Acre , Covent Garden . |
| 11 | He found that middle-out methods decreased performance on longer sentences solely because of space requirements , not because of poor hit-rate of initial seed words . |
| 12 | The collapse is possible because many of the ribs are not joined to the sternum , and those that do join make contact by long flexible cartilages . |
| 13 | Its supporters claim that the first would be the first step towards a test reactor that would burn plasma for long periods . |
| 14 | Within the specialty of mental health the central coordinating function was first recognised formally in the United States by the Community Mental Health Centers Act ( 1963 ) and its 1975 amendments , which explicitly required the centres to link with other agencies providing care for long term patients . |
| 15 | And make use of long wave . |
| 16 | In the UK , for example , there is evidence that the local authority council house system has reduced mobility over long distances for those who seek housing in this sector ( Hughes and McCormick 1981 ) . |
| 17 | Now I know in some of the newspapers today it 's been suggested that you would be doing sort of long distance surgery as it were , but that 's not the case ? |
| 18 | Given that change in circumstances , we , it was felt that it would be prudent to propose to members a change to the actual statement which was in place , so that it would permit consideration of longer term borrowing , in particular circumstances and where it 's in the interest of the authority , and have the flexibility to do so , in relating to the prudent managements of its affairs , Chairman . |
| 19 | Beware of the trap of spending time on long explanations in English on what something is. it may not exist in the other culture . |
| 20 | ‘ The good ones do n't have time for long drunken lunches , and you get better results by getting them to give you and the client a sandwich in a bar at six p.m . |
| 21 | Most patients in both groups could defer defecation for longer than 15 minutes ( usually for much longer periods ) and could discriminate satisfactorily between flatus and faeces . |
| 22 | He gripped the pommel , pushed his left boot into the cold stirrup iron , and heaved up into the Hussar saddle with its high spoon that offered support during long hours of riding . |
| 23 | Jennefer Cheyne at Cheynes of Edinburgh used Sienna from the Wella Colour Touch range of long-lasting semi-permanent colourants to add warmth to long hair . |
| 24 | Take particular care when you are extending credit for long periods . |
| 25 | Extra glands had been grafted into her to store and synthesize at speed the somatotrophin growth hormone that ordinarily promoted growth of long bones and protein synthesis in a child … and glands to reverse the process . |
| 26 | Every Labour Government has left office with longer waiting lists . |
| 27 | Considerations in favour of a more flexible approach towards new building in the South East include the need to continue the momentum of the national economic recovery and the search for alternative uses of surplus farmland , but if no firm guidance on this matter is forthcoming in the near future , decentralization is likely to occur more slowly but take place over longer distances . |
| 28 | If the risk was very great or obvious then , given the number of people using monitors and watching TV for long periods , then the effects would be more obvious . |
| 29 | When setting medium to long hair ( left and above ) , start at the front : to get rid of flopping hair , wind away from the face , back towards the crown . |
| 30 | Labour was further incensed because Balfour 's and the Cabinet majority 's crowning blow to Long 's hopes had been to ensure that the Act operated for only three years , the result of government 's unwillingness to accept permanent responsibility for the relief of unemployment . |