Example sentences of "[verb] to the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Antony Licata styled the alternative look , dashes of golden copper lights were added to the longer areas at the top and sides . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | They testify to the long hours he has spent working under the eye of his father , Bob . |
| 5 | Cling to the long |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ’ 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 . |
| 9 | The tour was disappointing but looking to the longer term future of Scottish rugby it was certainly not a disaster . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Presumably it is an overreaction to a number of points that we have noted : that no logical guarantee of the soundness of our abductive sense can be provided ; that our substantive conception of reality or of the aim of inquiry may itself be revisable ; that while experience might lead us to abandon a theory with some confidence , proper acceptance should be postponed to the long run — true theories are survivors . |
| 16 | We could not detect a significant immunological difference between drug users who seroconverted with bacterial pneumonia and those without , but owing to the long sampling interval the lowest CD4 counts were not necessarily measured . |
| 17 | The major factors requiring the enactment of legislation on liability for nuclear incidents were the risk of widespread damage , possibly involving losses of millions of pounds , from a single emission of ionising radiations and the possible injustice in the Limitation Acts owing to the long periods which might elapse between the impact of ionising radiations on the plaintiff and his suffering ascertainable damages . |
| 18 | The cause of Mr Hemingway 's ‘ uncharacteristic errors ’ — failing to see that the old wire was detached at the fuse end and insulated at the relay end — is attributed to the long hours he worked . |
| 19 | … the lands belonging to Pagham , firstly from the West of Withering , by that harbour to the place which is called Bonar Stream , and thus it leads to the long village . |
| 20 | ‘ The public is becoming aware of the strong likelihood of an increase in interest rates and are turning to the longer fixtures . ’ |
| 21 | Re-elected to the Long Parliament in 1640 , in which his nephew , Sir John Evelyn of Wiltshire ( 1601–1685 , q.v. ) , sat for Ludgershall , he was ‘ galled ’ at the attacks on the family 's monopoly . |
| 22 | Examples of the latter — attaching new connotations — would be the way musical elements of the bourgeois march were made to connote something different in nineteenth century labour anthems ; or the way the supposedly liberated individualist eclecticism of counter cultural 1960s rock — ‘ liberated ’ in the Marcusian sense — was , in a process of recuperation , re-articulated to the long tradition of bourgeois individual bohemianism . |
| 23 | as if remembering the steps of a dance she walked to the long cheval mirror in the bedroom and tried on the dress , a dark grey beaded silk gown by Bruce Oldfield . |
| 24 | Quinn replaced the phone , walked to the long couch , lay on his back with his hands clasped behind his head and stared at the ceiling . |
| 25 | In fact at the moment we 're just about getting to the longest er night the what 's called the equ er sorry the solstice that occurs on about December the twenty second . |
| 26 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 27 | Milner ( 1975 ) has summarised and contributed to the long history of research which demonstrates black children 's denial of their colour ( Clark and Clark , 1947 ) , and their preference for white identity ( Goodman , 1964 ) . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it is an early maturing variety well suited to the long ripening period of a northern wine region . |
| 29 | And this makes them better suited to the longer distances . ’ |
| 30 | The ‘ activity ’ is the name given to the longest unit , it relates to the mode in which the teacher and children are working at a particular point in the lesson . |