Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a 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 | The crowd lingers for a long time , until it 's almost dark . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 13 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 14 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The water arrives via a long , straight mill race , about half a mile in length . |
| 19 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
| 20 | When a Vet first takes up running — or resumes after a long lay-off — he or she can count on one thing : several years of improvement . |
| 21 | This volume closes with a long inventory of the furnishings belonging to Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga not long before his death in 1756 . |
| 22 | It must be borne in mind that not every dead-end of a burrow terminates in a long , narrow hole . |
| 23 | There is no corresponding requirement for bistability , which occurs for , and thus actually benefits from a long time constant , since the gain is : hence materials such as semiconductors and liquid crystals with small are ideal for bistability but useless for Ikeda instability . |
| 24 | A dapper stranger ( John Berger ) hoves into view and launches into a long , rather tedious yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 25 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
| 26 | It sounds like a long way ? |
| 27 | This lies on top of a buttress cliff which forms the turning corner of the lake 's south shore , which here swings into a long south-pointing branch , the Urner See . |
| 28 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 29 | I 'm also sorry to disappoint all those writers on anorexia nervosa who insist that the disease stems from a long standing aversion to sexuality and childbirth . |
| 30 | Reason , one might think , for the wary traveller to duck behind the luggage lockers , but no , the assembly listens rapt as John Berger ( for it is he ) embarks upon a long yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |