Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus social workers undertaking long term care tasks would : |
| 2 | However , some radionuclides having longer half-lives or being more rapidly dispersed can become globally distributed . |
| 3 | H pylori was identified in the gastric biopsy specimens of six of 17 ( 35% ) rheumatoid patients receiving long term gold injections plus NSAID , which is only two subjects less than the expected prevalence in such a subgroup had they taken NSAID only ; this did not change the overall statistical analyses of the study . |
| 4 | Of the comfortable paternalism of large estates providing long and useful employment for their servants . |
| 5 | Individual psychological treatments entailing long sessions with any kind of therapist seem of limited value in general practice and make little economic sense . |
| 6 | The airport at Singapore is like any other except that it is filled with white men wearing long shorts . |
| 7 | They sat round a huge log fire , the flickering flames casting long shadows against the far wall . |
| 8 | In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics . |
| 9 | At the beginning of her Preface to Divine Songs and Meditacions , Collins claims she undertook to write : ‘ Being through weakness to the house confin'd/My mental powers seeming long to sleep ’ . |
| 10 | The Tour du Mont Blanc is a high altitude rollercoaster route on a grand scale involving long ascents , high passes ( some over 8,000ft ) and equally long descents , as it picks its way through the seven main valleys — and three countries — which surround the massif . |
| 11 | Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns . |
| 12 | He was listening to the sounds of his army gathering ; brown-jerkinned archers ; men-at-arms in conical helmets carrying long spears and quilted jackets ; the shouted orders of his serjeants and the neighing and whinnying of the proud-blooded warhorses . |
| 13 | These are the rays which pass deep into the skin 's tender layers causing long term damage , like ageing and wrinkling . |
| 14 | The fife sentence prisoners are not the only ones serving long sentences ; Maidstone also contained 133 men serving sentences of 10 years or more when I visited . |
| 15 | Through asking open questions requiring longer answers : ‘ how ’ questions are especially useful . |
| 16 | Transparently clear , all the country in a deep russet dress , long , vividly bright , horizontal sunshine casting long shadows in the morning ; a dull midday and then a divine evening . |
| 17 | If a fork results from repeats in the genome ( and is therefore likely to violate the neighbourhood rules given below ) , it is reasonable simply to make a break in the contig because it represents a limit of the experimental technique used and other approaches using longer probes or clones may help to close the gap . |
| 18 | Transgenic mice containing Long and Short Ea constructs |
| 19 | From personal experience she knew and understood the problems of individual study , the difficulty of sustained reading and written work following long hours of manual labour . |