Example sentences of "[vb pp] to long [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oeppen has continued to investigate the structure of projection models as applied to long runs of data from the past . |
| 2 | They were executed or sentenced to long periods of forced labour . |
| 3 | Ngawang Buchung was sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for activities in support of Tibetan independence , which included circulating Tibetan translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 4 | The British War Cabinet fully recognised the implications of this , and the likelihood that many would be executed as traitors or sentenced to long terms in prison camps . |
| 5 | In a trial held in October 1990 , 38 members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam ( NUFLVN ) resistance movement were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment after being found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 6 | The managers of the company were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment in October . |
| 7 | If there are several competing paths , only those paths that can be matched to long words are continued , and a short word will only be retrieved from the buffer if none of the possible paths can be matched to a long word . |
| 8 | This increase , however , can be attributed to long naps taken outside the main sleep period and increased sleep time on rest days . |
| 9 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
| 10 | Aung San was moody , given to long silences and sudden outbursts , eloquent in rhetoric , impetuous , erratic : and a hero to the people . |
| 11 | Excessive fading can occur if a rug is exposed to long periods of strong sunlight , and is best avoided by either relocating the rug or putting it in storage for the summer . |
| 12 | The issue of two-year degrees had led to long discussions on the Council . |