Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stockings on Christmas morning are always full of useful things ( Clarissa 's includes Pond 's Cold Cream and tights ) , then after church the family goes for a long walk to work up a hearty appetite for dinner . |
| 2 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 3 | The crowd lingers for a long time , until it 's almost dark . |
| 4 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 5 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 6 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 7 | The geographical concentration of the relatively high per capita income services — especially in finance — in London and the South East has for a long time been a feature of the British economy [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 8 | Special education has for a long time been fertile ground for curricula based on linear models of learning , guided and assessed through hierarchies of objectives . |
| 9 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 10 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 11 | High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals . |
| 12 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 13 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 14 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 15 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 16 | It looks like a long hard season for Civil Service , who have lost Steffi Magowan and Alex Battey to university across the water , and newly promoted Knock . |
| 17 | But really it is the crew as a whole which counts in the long run on a job like this . |
| 18 | The main disadvantage of the method lies in the long periods of time required to reach equilibrium . |
| 19 | I 've had three goes at it , and I can tell you that looks are the last thing to be considered ; it 's what 's underneath that matters in the long run . |
| 20 | I have to remember we spent her first ten years together and hope that this will be what matters in the long run . |
| 21 | She now lives in the longest village in England with her husband and two children , Sebastian and Octavia ( Octavia because she was born in eight minutes ) . |
| 22 | She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle . |
| 23 | There is a good argument that the exclusion of a development corporation has in the long term been to Cramlington 's advantage , but the opportunity for land development profits was very important . |
| 24 | This separation of the responsibilities of public office from the personal qualities of the incumbent has in the long term had a number of important consequences on decision-making in rural areas . |
| 25 | As well as determining the information needed now and in the near future , some regard must be given to the difficult task of trying to foresee information needs in the longer term ( Land , 1982 ) . |
| 26 | The charge that higher education has over a longer period contributed to an anti-industrial ethos among the educated classes in Britain has been laid by Wiener ( 1981 ) and countered in different ways by Sanderson ( 1972 ) who points to manifold examples of involvement with industry , and Shattock ( 1987 ) who tends to lay the blame elsewhere , at the door of government and industry itself . |
| 27 | The water arrives via a long , straight mill race , about half a mile in length . |
| 28 | It seems to me when deciding that case , the court of appeal were as Mr suggests taking a long-term view , I of course bear in mind the well known aphorism of Lord about er what happens in the long term , but er , my own view is , that in fact , a house should not actually be built as an investment at all it is something to live in , to make a home in , it is not something to make money out of , I very much regret the fact that er over recent years that view seems to have become somewhat old fashioned . |
| 29 | She says in the longer term there are substantial benefits from returning organic matter to the soil . |
| 30 | An advantage of this slender branch byway , which runs at a higher level than the main road , is the splendid panorama it affords of the encircling hills : across the valley the distant double-topped Frostrow merges in the long whaleback skyline of Rise Hill ; at the head is Great Knoutberry Hill carrying the railway ; rising to the left are the lower slopes of Whernside , succeeded by Great Coum beyond the gap of Deepdale , and finally Middleton Fell closes the horizon . |