Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies in Chicago , delegates asked for a longer cylinder with a section specifically set aside for an announcement , but this did not come about . |
| 32 | Britain is failing to invest for the long term . |
| 33 | This failure to invest for the long term can be seen also in innovation , the development of new ideas and products . |
| 34 | The opening of the European Community telecommunications markets needs to be controlled , otherwise manufacturers could suffer , Georges Paricard , chairman of French telecommunications industry body SIT , told the lobby 's annual conference — if deregulation was done in an uncontrolled way , telephone operators would be reluctant to invest for the long term , leaving equipment makers deprived of orders . |
| 35 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 36 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |
| 37 | The first is that with another ten years of John Paul 's rule , the silencing of awkward bishops and theologians , the appointment to the episcopate of a most carefully selected team of neo-conservatives , a rather traditionalist form of Catholicism will , in fact , harden and remain for a long time effectively unchangeable . |
| 38 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 39 | There is one important difference : the Prime Minister and his Cabinet can embark boldly upon their way forward , with electoral considerations banished for a long time to come . |
| 40 | Ann has n't done a lot of cooking for a long time though , have you really ? |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 43 | Exposed for a long time to moist , saturated , air timber might settle down to a moisture content of 22 per cent or 23 per cent . |
| 44 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 45 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 46 | But it does need to be borne in mind that although this form of sudden death can create such instantaneous reactions there are also people who hide and keep quiet and suffer for a long time before finding the opportunity to talk to someone about their feelings or until another trigger sets them grieving . |
| 47 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |
| 48 | The official definition of long-term unemployment is more than twelve months without work , although employment training , which is designed for the long term unemployed , requires entrants to have been on the register for more than six months . |
| 49 | What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents . |
| 50 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 51 | Luke , she knew , would be occupied for a long time yet , drinking coffee with the other women , talking over the day , helping to cement working relationships for the future . |
| 52 | He had been crouched on the first-floor landing for a long time , peering through the banister rails to the kitchen at the end of the lower corridor , listening to the ebb and flow of their conversation . |
| 53 | The crowd lingers for a long time , until it 's almost dark . |
| 54 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 55 | In times of expansion , developments can be additive , and it is easier for new subjects to become institutionally — as distinct from academically — accepted ( doubts can linger for a long time ) . |
| 56 | Memories of the last will linger for a long time to come . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 ] . |