Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] long [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In corporate finance , a small group of colleagues can be expected to work long hours together under considerable pressure and conditions of secrecy .
2 teachers are highly-trained , well motivated and prepared to work long hours ;
3 He was made to work long hours as a farm labourer and , like thousands of others , he was classed as ‘ Untermensch ’ ( subhuman ) by the soldiers .
4 A major exception to the principle of proportionality relates to the sentencing of offenders for violent and sexual offences , in respect of whom courts are empowered to pass longer sentences than are ‘ commensurate ’ if they consider it necessary ‘ to protect the public from serious harm from the offender ’ ( section 2(2) ( b ) ) .
5 Hatters were said to have long hours — " a man goes early and stays late " — but no fixed hours .
6 The lucky ones had bikes but most had to walk long distances to meet up with their friends .
7 When the flaking is done skilfully , only light hand pressure with a piece of wood is needed to detach long slivers of material which can themselves be used as knives .
8 The fact that many prisoners have routinely had to spend long periods in their cells without access to a toilet , having to use chamber pots and queue up to ‘ slop out ’ , has been a potent symbol of the squalor of British prisons .
9 ‘ She is bound to have longer legs , a sexier smile and better bedroom manners ’
10 A phantom is bound to have longer legs , a sexier smile and better bedroom manners than a real person .
11 Solitary dolphins have been known to spend long periods around human settlements , encounters which attest to their humour , playfulness , curiosity and gentleness , and their readiness to help humans in distress .
12 His scouts had assessed that the enemy numbers would reach around twenty thousand , and were moving fairly fast , a mounted host save for the Islesmen and Highlanders who , trained to proceed long distances at the run , and lightly clad , did not hold up the horse to any extent .
13 It is bad enough when people are asked to work long hours .
14 My toes went numb , and at the primary school that we attended I was n't allowed to wear long trousers at my age .
15 With the rapid decline in the mining industry during the late nineteenth century , men were forced to work longer hours or to seek work abroad and this shared life largely disappeared .
16 The safety record in the private sector is worse , because it reflects the fact that those in the private sector are already forced to work longer hours .
17 Foreign investors would be allowed to take long leases on land , and the under-utilised port would be thrown open to foreign traders .
18 But , as soon as American distributors no longer needed British films , and the local producers had started to make longer films , the quality of British filmmaking nosedived .
19 This could occur where a mistake is made by a junior doctor who has been required to work long hours because of his contract of employment and made the mistake through exhaustion .
20 When the heat is on at work and you are required to work longer hours , are you unable to maintain your eating pattern ?
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