Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make a vow never to write another long job description . |
| 2 | Doctors could buy the much needed equipment , they would n't have to work such long hours , there would be no need to close down wards , aye or even hospitals . |
| 3 | I do not believe that it would be right to reverse this long line of authority and declare that certiorari should now lie to reverse the decision of a visitor on a question of law . |
| 4 | The A forty one , the road between Banbury and Bicester , there are temporary traffic lights between the Soldern turn-off , that 's by the Bear public house and the Northampshire border ; that 's likely to cause some long delays . |
| 5 | We were on Egleton Reserve , the lagoon area of the Rutland Water Nature Reserve , and we had spent a blustery March morning wielding bill hooks to create 3-foot long sticks from coppiced pussy willow branches . |
| 6 | Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 . |
| 7 | Two new fortresses were built far from Ulthuan to enable these long range missions to be accomplished . |
| 8 | Roland did not want to hear another long speech from Blackadder about Beatrice Nest 's long-delayed edition of Ellen Ash . |
| 9 | Hence , the use of options to hedge any long position in shares involves a continuous reassessment as time and the share price change . |
| 10 | Oh bloody hell why do they have to put such long words in them ? |
| 11 | In order to increase it 's market share and to build exciting long term business prospects it was quickly realised that Noble Metals would have to provide more value to it 's customers that their competitors . |
| 12 | Damian pulled her out and shut the door , marching with her back down the corridors , his hand hard on her wrist , and as she went with him , hurrying to match those long strides , she understood and was horrified beyond belief . |
| 13 | His task is both daunting and serious , but Allison — famed for that Fedora and fat cigars — would go to the gallows cracking jokes and his humour is sorely needed to lift some long faces in the dressing room . |
| 14 | Flory and Krigbaum defined an enthalpy parameter and an entropy of dilution parameter such that the thermodynamic functions used to describe these long range effects are given in terms of the excess partial molar quantities |
| 15 | He was able to snatch one long weekend in the country , but almost at once he had to start work on the preparation of lectures for a three-week tour of Germany . |
| 16 | Do you want me to get some long life milk ? |
| 17 | We had to take the door off there , there used to be a door on there , but to get this long sideboard in we had to take the door off |
| 18 | The civil servants ( not often wrong , but this time they gave bad advice ) wanted to remove this long example from the body of the Report , and relegate it to an appendix , or , better still , cut it out completely . |
| 19 | We were to spend many long hours exploring his meticulously catalogued treasury , practising the identification of species from our slim reference books on flora and malacology . |
| 20 | The sad fact is that many of these ‘ irruptive ’ birds spend their last days in the islands , because if they do not move on immediately while they still have the strength , the more time they spend searching for what is n't there , the less chance there is of their being able to make another long sea crossing . |
| 21 | Cut the required number of widths of fabric and join them to make one long strip with a plain open seam and matching any pattern . |