Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee also recommended that the government clarify the rules covering the supply of heat and energy so that anyone planning a CHP scheme would not need to carry out long negotiations with the electricity industry . |
| 2 | Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus . |
| 3 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , for many years within the referral area of the Plymouth eye infirmary , people have had to wait excessively long periods not only for an initial eye examination but for subsequent treatment ? |
| 4 | Railway workers in both countries have had to work exceedingly long hours even for these comparatively modest rewards . |
| 5 | But then the cells at the tip begin to shoot out long filopodia which make contact with the wall and contract pulling the future gut further in . |
| 6 | It uses ascii character coding , and tends to produce very long files . |
| 7 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 8 | The same two civilisations also developed mummification , having discovered how long bodies could be preserved in their dry air . |
| 9 | His theory did not attempt to explain how long waves are generated at the international level or the mechanisms by which national economies ' cyclical movements are linked . |
| 10 | Involves calculating how long problem behaviour lasts . |
| 11 | Said long words like that kept using very long words . |
| 12 | Paula entered the factory at the age of 17 after finishing secondary school and found that her wage was so low , she was forced to work exceptionally long hours , from 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 pm . |
| 13 | Even this would not in itself warrant lengthy description were it not for the fact that Verdun 's peculiarly sinister environment came to leave an imprint on men 's memories that stood apart from other battles of the First War ; and predominantly so in France where the nightmares it inspired lingered perniciously long years after the Armistice . |
| 14 | Unlike their counterparts in the longue durée , they were seen not so much as steady constraints with which societies had to contend over long periods , but as patterns of change which were themselves part and parcel of social life . |
| 15 | The President may be watching to see how long Mr Buchanan remains a contender , delaying as long as is necessary making an appointment that could fuel his opponent 's campaign . |
| 16 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 17 | Think I 've got quite long arms for a short body . |
| 18 | A glance at the map on p. xii will show that the enlarged Aquitaine which the English had to defend had very long frontiers , vulnerable to small mobile forces which the French now used to excellent effect . |
| 19 | ( Opposite , bottom ) Many prey species have developed unusually long legs and strange forms of locomotion as refinements of their fleeing behaviour . |
| 20 | It is because collecting the refuse of houses in close proximity , such as terraced houses in the city of Sheffield , costs only one third of what it costs to collect the refuse of houses in the posh south-west of Sheffield , where the houses are spaced out and the collection men have to walk up long drives . |
| 21 | Studies have shown that long term success rates ( ie at one year follow up ) of 10–20% can be achieved [ 7 ] . |
| 22 | In this study we have shown that long term ( 18 months ) ingestion of 133 g/kg dietary fibre resulted in a modest but significant increase in cellular proliferation in the crypts of the proximal colon but not the distal colon of the rat compared with an intake of 17 g/kg dietary fibre . |
| 23 | walks down about eight o'clock , talk about long legs , she 's got really long legs right , this one . |
| 24 | And of course what Mr does not refer to in any of his submissions n is the need for new settlements in that area to be have to have very long access roads . |