Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] long [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Marcos agreed long ago to fly her husband 's body direct to Laoag , but she is now hinting at defiance . |
| 2 | Although he partially guessed that Joe Hyde would not be in the shop , Patrick stopped long enough to check the window . |
| 3 | The K mesons live long enough to produce tracks in the CLEO detector , so the team could work back from detected K mesons to hunt for those that seemed likely to have originated from a B meson . |
| 4 | ‘ And you wo n't even let the boy stay long enough to see his mother ? ’ said the yeoman without animosity . |
| 5 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 6 | I hope your fish live long enough to recover and that the dyes fade away . |
| 7 | For suppose that the disuse of meat causes a permanent distaste for it , and that an increased demand for fish continues long enough to enable the forces by which its supply is governed to work out their action fully ( of course oscillation from day to day and from year to year would continue : but we may leave them on the side ) . |
| 8 | That meant no dancing , just hordes of people staying long enough to see and be seen , then passing on to some other entertainment . |
| 9 | It is simply because most diets involve immense change in eating habits and usually some degree of hunger ; they are too difficult for most people to maintain long enough to become slim . |
| 10 | There they collected the report and the tape recording — and Derek paused long enough to telephone Carol with a flimsy excuse for his absence . |
| 11 | I estimate that no more than 50 per cent of all young rabbits survive long enough to reach maturity . |
| 12 | At Holkham we looked hopefully up into the pine trees planted long ago to help stabilise the sand dunes , and we ‘ pished ’ . |
| 13 | Motherwell took 27 minutes to create their first chance when Chris McCart carved out an opening for Joe McLeod , but the striker hesitated long enough to allow Brian Irvine to block the effort . |
| 14 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 15 | The sergeant hesitated long enough to decide he would be wasting his time by further argument . |
| 16 | Burrows lived long enough to secure the appointment of Arnold Toynbee [ q.v. ] to the chair in 1919 . |
| 17 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 18 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |