Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki , Mandela 's veteran prison companions who had been released in Oct. 1989 and November 1987 respectively [ pp. 36964 ; 36074 ] after serving long prison sentences , were both re-elected to the executive , now enlarged to 34 members . |
| 2 | It is in these areas that Save The Children has consistently moved forward through developing long term strategies which are being added to and developed year after year . |
| 3 | Recent experience of walking Long Distance Footpaths ( LDPs ) has led me to believe that there is a case for de-emphasising certain routes ( I understand that the RA currently recommends Duke of Edinburgh Award Groups to avoid the Three Peaks for example ) . |
| 4 | For example , a group norm for the young men in an engineering workshop could be to follow a fashion of wearing long hair . |
| 5 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 6 | One of the problems in evaluating the changes brought about by the Conservative government since 1979 is that of disentangling long term trends from the direct effects of policy initiatives . |
| 7 | Monitoring progress towards achieving long term goals |
| 8 | Well you ca n't create stability , the Communist Party ca n't sort of I mean cos that 's what , sort of hindering long term investments and that how peasants do n't feel that how that things are secure , they and it 's difficult to see what the Communist Party could 've done |
| 9 | As has been seen with venture capital funds , there may be some evidence of difficulty of raising long term funds for under £200 000 , and a National Investment Bank may indeed fill this gap . |
| 10 | would be majorly responsible for getting long term results , as they would have to ensure that the area can survive independently again by building up their own food supplies through improving farming eg. better irrigation etc . |
| 11 | Heading south he got beaten up by the Miami cops for having long hair . |
| 12 | Our success in securing long term contracts during 1992 allowed the company to increase staff training programmes and a new training centre was opened to facilitate these initiatives . |
| 13 | The County Council believes this approach represents the most appropriate way forward in assessing long term employment land requirements . |
| 14 | The Wilson committee largely concurred with these views , and pointed out the specific problems of small firms in raising long term finance , whether loan or equity . |
| 15 | An International Centre for Educational Evaluation has been established in Ibadan and , though currently very understaffed , has made a useful start in mounting long training courses in evaluation and in undertaking evaluation of curriculum projects at the request of their organisers ( among which are the Namutamba and Ife projects described earlier in the chapter ) . |
| 16 | Beside the TNM classification system additional variables , such as biological staging for the intrinsic malignant potential of the tumours , might be useful for determining long term survival . |
| 17 | At Midland , we pride ourselves on establishing long term relationships with our customers . |
| 18 | There are other entries describing my passion for clothes , and also my concern to look good — for example , it notes that I insisted on having long hair , despite problems of manageability . |
| 19 | Can I just say , just a couple of points before you go erm you are all fairly good at writing long answer essay questions , but you are probably not so good at writing short answer questions , right . |
| 20 | The detachment forms up close to the main unit where it can offer support , either by using long range weapons such as bows or hand guns , or by employing hand-to-hand weapons to threaten an advancing enemy 's exposed flanks . |
| 21 | It may be particularly important , therefore , to aggressively target nutritional treatment at boys with Crohn 's disease , by using long term nocturnal nasogastric or gastrostomy tube feeding . |
| 22 | Attempts to delay stent clogging by prescribing long term antibiotics or by the mucolytic action of aspirin have met with little success , though recent studies suggest that silver impregnation of the stent and omitting side holes may be helpful . |