Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bridge the gap between the desire of lenders to be able to get their money back quickly , and the desire of borrowers to borrow for a long period . |
| 2 | In those places where there is a delay in substantiation , faith is prepared to wait for a long time at the bar of history . |
| 3 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 4 | If the budget worsens after revenue-yielding tariffs have been reduced , governments may not be able to wait for the longer term trade gains to emerge to replace the lost revenue . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's wanted to go for a long time , ’ said Anne , nodding . |
| 6 | She would have liked to go for a long walk past the charming wedding-cake buildings that lined the promenade , but although it was only teatime , it was already too dark to see anything . |
| 7 | If they want to go for a longer period , a key worker would go out with them . ’ |
| 8 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 9 | This spring , however , there really are a few green shoots of recovery , and in a more confident climate , where people are once again prepared to plan for the long term , they could blossom rapidly . |
| 10 | Only when these key steps have been taken will government and individuals alike be able to plan for the long term , instead of focusing on the short term and the next election . |
| 11 | Residential institutions lost favour and became associated with , if not blamed for , the lack of professional vision and determination to plan for the long term future of children . |
| 12 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 13 | Britain is failing to invest for the long term . |
| 14 | This failure to invest for the long term can be seen also in innovation , the development of new ideas and products . |
| 15 | The opening of the European Community telecommunications markets needs to be controlled , otherwise manufacturers could suffer , Georges Paricard , chairman of French telecommunications industry body SIT , told the lobby 's annual conference — if deregulation was done in an uncontrolled way , telephone operators would be reluctant to invest for the long term , leaving equipment makers deprived of orders . |
| 16 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |
| 17 | People arriving in this country for such a purpose have to go through a long interview procedure to process their claims . |
| 18 | Most clubs , you have to go through a long rigmarole of being proposed and seconded and vouched for by other members and having your background scrutinised , and weeks and months go by before you 're elected . |
| 19 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 20 | He claimed there should be no erosion of traditional fishing areas , and stressed that each application would have to go through a long process before being granted . |
| 21 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 22 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 23 | What this illustrates is that , notwithstanding the progress made in the past two years , the reforms in themselves have done little to compensate for the long term underfunding of the NHS . |
| 24 | At a buffet you ensure that elderly and infirm guests , and those who have travelled long distances , have seats near the buffet table so that they are not obliged to stand for a long period . |
| 25 | A place you try to find after a long absence … |
| 26 | Salt had recovered from her first surprise and was about to launch into a longer attack . |
| 27 | The woman led him away , leaving Charlotte to wander into a long pine-panelled room with a huge stone fireplace at the far end and a picture window to her right commanding a view of the terraced front garden and the curving drive up which she had walked . |
| 28 | One of the major criticisms that is made of senior management is its unwillingness to let go of the reins of an organisation , to delegate routine tasks and to concentrate upon the longer term . |
| 29 | It can be limited across the whole country or across wide areas liable to suffer in the longer term ( for example , on all permeable soils such as on chalk , limestone , sand or sandstone ) . |
| 30 | The sound had seemed to come from a long way over the heath to the right . |