Example sentences of "[pron] can [vb infin] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |
| 2 | It is much easier to improve ‘ performance ’ on such measures by decreasing the denominator than by increasing the numerator , which can take a long time , involves risk and has to be discounted for taxation . |
| 3 | If brought to trial , she can expect a long prison sentence , followed by ‘ re-education through labour ’ in a camp in Qinghai — ‘ China 's Siberia ’ — an Area like the Sahara desert , in the west of the country , where the climate is notorious for its boiling heat in summer and freezing temperatures in winter . |
| 4 | You can stay a long time in neutral , ticking over — provided nothing happens . |
| 5 | You can expect a long and happy life if you give up serious music . |
| 6 | So the little sketchbook doodles I made from the car might be all that is needed : a few slight marks pointing to the lack of incident in a country where you can travel a long way without seeming to get anywhere — which is what I felt about my own artistic journey . |
| 7 | ‘ When that happens , you can anticipate a long and difficult birth . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You can see a long way from up here , ’ said Simon . |
| 9 | As well as creating a design like the one pictured here , you can use the long narrow shape to create an elongated twisting design , rather like a string of entwined S's , or a natural piece of vine creeping along the frame . |
| 10 | You can get a long way with three parts and with four you can conquer the world ! |
| 11 | We can go a long way in the sociology of culture by studying cultural institutions , formations and means of production . |
| 12 | Erm I do n't think we can spend a long time considering them , it 's just if people bear me whisking through them our brains . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I know , but if you call early we can have a long talk . ’ |
| 14 | yes , Okay , yes , I 'll see if we can have a long er coffee break , Peter ! |
| 15 | Most of all , if opposition batsman would like to get out ( the dollier the catch the better ) they can start the long walk to the pavilion in the knowledge that it was in a good cause , and not just that of Barney cricket . |
| 16 | and they can walk a long way |
| 17 | I know they quite right They can get a long lie . |
| 18 | Historically , over almost any run of three or four years or more , equities have outperformed bonds and , as pension funds are investing for members ' retirements , they can take the long view . |
| 19 | In doing so it can go a long way towards lifting the depression which has afflicted too many teachers in recent years . |
| 20 | It is a characteristic of a task requiring vigilance that it can span a long time , minutes or hours or even a whole work-shift . |
| 21 | When the losses are recognized for what they are then the healing of the pain can begin , but so often the loss is so deeply buried in people 's minds that it can take a long while for it to come to the surface again . |
| 22 | The trouble has been , however , that with the longer construction periods for nuclear stations and the further period before their cheaper running costs will allegedly show up , it can take a long time to see which way the scales really tip . |
| 23 | It can take a long time for a woman to rid herself of the automatic assumptions that she has absorbed about home-making , and learn to fashion an approach which suits her and her family . |
| 24 | The flight action is superb although it can take a long time to get to grips with all the features of the program . |
| 25 | But it also makes everything quite difficult to fully understand as it can take a long time to see what is really being said . |
| 26 | It is confident that it can take the long distance frugality title to add to its claim of being Britain 's fastest small diesel with a top speed of 96.3 mph . |