Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | The village has a long history . |
| 32 | Add this to the illness of Hun Sen , the only member of the Cambodian regime who appears willing to risk his future to give peace a chance , and Cambodian peace looks a long way off . |
| 33 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 34 | THE QUEEN 'S HEAD , said to be a 14th Century inn has a long gallery , now glassed in , facing east , but it is not an original structure . |
| 35 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
| 36 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
| 37 | If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice . |
| 38 | It might be a bottle of wine , but a bottle of wine goes a long way , and everybody , you stand up and you get your bottle of wine , and everybody goes , yes , feel good . |
| 39 | Whether it 's a long-term or short-term problem you will find gentle exercise and relaxation through yoga will be beneficial to you mentally and physically , and we always find that a good massage goes a long way to easing tension and making you feel better . |
| 40 | The perpetuation of the old sources of strife goes a long way towards explaining why party conflict continued after the Glorious Revolution , which will be the theme of the following chapter . |
| 41 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 42 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 43 | ‘ The writer of this article lives a long way from Washington and would not know the answers to these questions . ’ |
| 44 | If we then look at paragraph five , that 's the first page of appendix two , we see here The appeal site has a long planning history . |
| 45 | The UK group has a long standing commitment , made to the Hong Kong Government , to broaden the shareholder base of Hong Kong Telecom and a deal with CITIC would be consistent with that . |
| 46 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 47 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
| 48 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |
| 49 | All money purchase schemes are potentially unpredictable , and are especially likely to lose value through monetary inflation ( and not least if the annuitant lives a long time ) unless the annuity is fully index-linked , which is not the case under present legislation . |
| 50 | At the scene of the two-year-old 's death , a telegraph pole bears a long poem pleading with the killers to give themselves up and release the family from their pain . |
| 51 | The difference is that your body takes a long time to react to the tetanus antitoxin Sorry , to the tetanus vaccine , to make antibodies against it . |
| 52 | The legal process takes a long time and the task of getting new Regulations approved remained incomplete when I retired . |
| 53 | However , if that application process takes a long time , it is felt that one can not upset that person 's lifestyle — he may be married — and he is allowed to stay . |
| 54 | Cardiff was , of course , built on mud flats , and nature takes a long time to change . |
| 55 | follow the pattern , but there again this stuff goes a long way |
| 56 | ‘ But I rather think my modest , high-minded , fastidious , idealistic wife has a long way to go before she qualifies for that description . ’ |
| 57 | The CAB has a long history of mobilising professionals such as lawyers , accountants and surveyors , to advise clients on a voluntary basis but there are very few lawyers who specialise in welfare benefits or money advice . |
| 58 | The assertion that law is unsuitable or unable to deal with family and personal behaviour has a long history . |
| 59 | If properly fitted to the shaft the boot has a long life . |
| 60 | The result is that shops use a work-in-process inventory to buffer themselves against problems and uncertainties , a situation where each station has a long queue of semifinished elements . |