Example sentences of "[vb pp] to long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , Pilkington was represented as a company committed to long term research and development , whereas BTR was seen as a company interested in quick profits , increasing efficiency by rationalisation ( and job losses ) and asset stripping . |
| 2 | A number of people have already been sentenced to long prison terms in connection with the robbery . |
| 3 | While disgraced former officials during 1989 continued to be convicted and sentenced to long prison terms , particularly in Uzbekistan [ see pp. 36898 ; 37129 ] , in January 1990 , however , three defendants were acquitted on the grounds of " violations of legality " by investigators . |
| 4 | All had been sentenced to long prison sentences for the " dirty war " against left-wing guerrillas and dissidents , during which an estimated 9,000 people " disappeared " and thousands more were abducted , tortured and murdered . |
| 5 | The human rights organization Amnesty International on Dec. 10 issued a report on Myanma listing some 200 people arrested in the country during the first seven months of 1991 , nearly 40 of whom had been sentenced to long prison terms after " blatantly unfair " trials . |
| 6 | A regional Communist Party leader before the 1989 revolution which overthrew his father , he had been sentenced to long prison sentences for murder ( later overturned ) and other crimes [ see pp. 37725 ; 38306 ] . |
| 7 | A clamour of conflicting emotions warred within her while her treacherous body arched greedily to every movement he made , answering each speaking gesture as fluently as if used to long practice . |
| 8 | A significant element of remuneration will now be linked to long term performance measured as the growth in the value of the Company 's stock units through the period to 31 December 1996 . |
| 9 | Patients allocated to long term endoscopic sclerotherapy underwent regular intra variceal injection of all patent varices using ethanolamine oleate . |
| 10 | Those assigned to long term sclerotherapy who presented with oesophageal variceal rebleeding were treated by further sclerotherapy as detailed above . |
| 11 | I mean it comes as no surprise to me er because of the lack of Health and Safety provision inside the work places and people that remain in work , erm being subjected to longer working hours er inside the industry . |
| 12 | Those attached to long subduction zones , such as the Pacific Plate , have been moving at comparatively high velocities ( 60–90 mm a- 1 ) , whereas plates lacking extensive subducting boundaries have experienced slower rates of movement ( below 40 mm a-1 ) . |