Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite some progress they have done little to compensate for long term NHS underfunding |
| 2 | From his early years , he had been engaged in the creation of a whole world , comparable in scale with the world of Greek mythology , with a pantheon of gods , a hierarchy of elvish immortals , and a vast cycle of stories , some of them ‘ forgotten ’ , or not yet formulated , in his imagination ; some surviving in fragmentary form ; some planned as long prose narratives ; some conceived as great poems , longer than Beowulf The sheer volume of all this , much of it composed before his fortieth birthday , bears testimony to a rare artistic self-confidence . |
| 3 | This allows for longer cooking to ensure it is cooked right through . |
| 4 | In the traditional industry , this calls for long landscape backgrounds that the cameraman scrolls with the action — another task in an already exhaustive list . |
| 5 | This would seem to be more likely to occur in longer input utterances . |
| 6 | In the original sweat spot test the foot was chosen because , impairment being more likely to occur in longer nerve fibres , the lower extremities would be the first to be involved in diabetic autonomic neuropathy . |
| 7 | They found the gentlemen in the club in white tie and tails all smoking through long cigarette holders , as was the fashion . |
| 8 | They are all based on long experience of examinations of the type concerned , and ensure that your paper is efficiently marked . |
| 9 | Those assigned to long term sclerotherapy who presented with oesophageal variceal rebleeding were treated by further sclerotherapy as detailed above . |
| 10 | Those attached to long subduction zones , such as the Pacific Plate , have been moving at comparatively high velocities ( 60–90 mm a- 1 ) , whereas plates lacking extensive subducting boundaries have experienced slower rates of movement ( below 40 mm a-1 ) . |