Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It will oblige them to make long drives across the desert to Egypt or Tunisia when they want to leave the country . |
2 | One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames . |
3 | COLLEGE lecturers at Colchester Institute are to strike in protest over new contracts forcing them to work longer hours including weekends and bank holidays . |
4 | Most bandsaws , for example , have a table considerably above the common machine table height which may enable you to cast long jobs above other machines . |
5 | All of these areas enable us to create long term partnerships with the groups and organisations we 're committed to help , and all of them enrich I B M's own long term aims . |
6 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
7 | The agricultural working class , deprived of a subsistence on the land by the enclosures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , thronged to the cities of the Midlands and the North where the economics of laissez-faire forced them to work long hours in wretched conditions for miserable wages , and threw them out of employment altogether as soon as there was a downturn in the market . |