Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ipswich 's other newcomer , German Andre Pollehn , will also be missing as he is committed to a long track meeting in his own country that day . |
| 2 | The press release also pronounced Christmas trading to be ‘ excellent ’ , and said that both Waterstones and Harrods were now committed to a long and successful relationship . |
| 3 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 4 | Before Antony Licata styled the alternative look , dashes of golden copper lights were added to the longer areas at the top and sides . |
| 5 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |
| 6 | Only once was a jarring note struck , and that was when Roger referred to the long room leading out of the kitchen as the ‘ museum ’ . |
| 7 | They testify to the long hours he has spent working under the eye of his father , Bob . |
| 8 | As an Irish prime minister once said after listening to a long debate between his cabinet colleagues : ‘ I understand how it works in practice . |
| 9 | It was to lead to a long period of self-confessed misery for her , including beatings by her tranquilliser-addicted mother and spells of being locked naked with her sister in cupboards . |
| 10 | Cling to the long |
| 11 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 12 | It is closely related to a longer version extant in four manuscripts three of which assign it to him . |
| 13 | These regressions indicate that mortality is related to swings in unemployment levels , over and above the improvement in mortality related to the long term trend for disposable incomes to increase . |
| 14 | According to a long and dominant tradition , the physical is bound up with the spatial . |
| 15 | Foucault notes that , at the same time as the Annales school and others were constructing a history according to the long durée , in the history of science , philosophy , and literature , attention was turning in exactly the opposite direction , that is away from vast unities towards phenomena of rupture , discontinuity , displacement and transformation , towards different temporalities as well as architectonic unities . |
| 16 | ’ Erskine May ’ states clearly that amendments may be made in Committee even if they are not within the Bill 's scope according to the long title . |
| 17 | Then they are playing a semi-blind second shot to a long narrow green , where deft perfection is crucial . |
| 18 | Depending on where your drive ends up you will face a tricky second shot to a long , narrow green . |
| 19 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 20 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 21 | The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks . |
| 22 | The tour was disappointing but looking to the longer term future of Scottish rugby it was certainly not a disaster . |
| 23 | Looking to the longer term , the Company has outline plans for a later phase of developments which will include platform improvements and a visitors ' viewing gallery in the workshops but at the moment all efforts are focused on phase 1 . |
| 24 | ‘ Looking to the longer term , I believe these reforms will significantly encourage the development of larger discoveries , such as West of Shetland , where a higher rate of return is necessary to balance the increased risk and costs of operating in a more demanding deep-water environment . ’ |
| 25 | The meandering reminiscence of boarding-school rituals is like being forced to listen to a long , pointless story about an acquaintance 's childhood . |
| 26 | However , since only the continued path from naming can be matched to a long word , the path from name is discontinued ( without storing the short word he on the word graph ) . |
| 27 | If there are several competing paths , only those paths that can be matched to long words are continued , and a short word will only be retrieved from the buffer if none of the possible paths can be matched to a long word . |
| 28 | Consider for example , that ( Fig. 7.6 ) will be parsed as Europe lie rather than your reply , since is matched to the long word Europe and is matched to lie . |
| 29 | For example , the mixed representation of a brief account , , will be parsed into agree the count , because the first four phonemes can be matched to the long word agree and because there is a possible parsing into words of the remaining phonemes . |
| 30 | When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally . |