Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skanform panels enable refurbishment of existing clean environments to a high standard of quality and hygiene without expensive and complicated installation procedures , while allowing investment in long term reliability and cost effectiveness . |
| 2 | The 1989 Employment Act now removes laws protecting 18-year-olds from long hours and shift work , so that there is more likelihood of industrial accidents . |
| 3 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 4 | he may already be classed as a great batsman , but luck rode with him when square-leg umpire David Archer ruled not out after Lara dislodged a bail turning Bosch to long leg . |
| 5 | Get titles right as well and if you are using initials for long names always spell out the name at least once . |
| 6 | For example , banks are active in demanding bonds with short maturities , pension funds are active in demanding bonds with long maturities , while few institutions are greatly interested in medium maturity bonds . |
| 7 | This can be achieved by holding sites for long periods and delaying the start of actual work on site for periods of up to , say , five to ten years . |
| 8 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 9 | Within the specialty of mental health the central coordinating function was first recognised formally in the United States by the Community Mental Health Centers Act ( 1963 ) and its 1975 amendments , which explicitly required the centres to link with other agencies providing care for long term patients . |
| 10 | This is the first study from the United Kingdom to examine the cost of maintaining patients on long term sclerotherapy , and it is also the first to compare this with a surgical procedure in such patients . |
| 11 | Guisarmes ( top ) were used to great effect as thrusting and cutting weapons on long shafts whilst ( above ) the cultellus was used to administer the coup de grace to unhorsed knights , and the war scythe and glaive to pull the horseman from his saddle . |
| 12 | Now I know in some of the newspapers today it 's been suggested that you would be doing sort of long distance surgery as it were , but that 's not the case ? |
| 13 | Beware of the trap of spending time on long explanations in English on what something is. it may not exist in the other culture . |
| 14 | In this way examples can be collected in a methodical way and edited with the minimum expenditure of time on viewing and selecting extracts from long recordings . |
| 15 | Take particular care when you are extending credit for long periods . |
| 16 | Amid worsening violence linked to Islamic fundamentalist groups [ see pp. 39118-19 ] , the government issued a decree on Oct. 1 against " subversion and terrorism " , creating three secret courts , lowering the age of responsibility from 18 to 16 years and introducing sanctions including long prison terms and execution , without right of appeal . |
| 17 | In a nearby workshop a goldsmith is making earrings of long , dull-faceted Afghan lapis lazuli and old Indian gold beads . |
| 18 | If the risk was very great or obvious then , given the number of people using monitors and watching TV for long periods , then the effects would be more obvious . |
| 19 | When setting medium to long hair ( left and above ) , start at the front : to get rid of flopping hair , wind away from the face , back towards the crown . |
| 20 | Labour was further incensed because Balfour 's and the Cabinet majority 's crowning blow to Long 's hopes had been to ensure that the Act operated for only three years , the result of government 's unwillingness to accept permanent responsibility for the relief of unemployment . |
| 21 | Germany and France led a protest fearing months of long negotiations could be undone . |