Example sentences of "[vb base] a long [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the low priority still given to gender , and the position of women in the foothills of the profession , ( see BSA , 1986 ) together with increased competition for the limited funding available for sociological research in the present political climate , suggest that feminists still face a long struggle to put women 's issues onto sociology 's mainstream agenda . |
| 2 | Florida will suffer because it is a centre of the fertiliser industry ; Pennsylvania , because it has a concentration of steel and cement works ; Kansas , because farmers use a lot of fuel ; California , because its residents habitually drive a long way to work . |
| 3 | A EUROPEAN Commission document has made it plain that politics rather than economic criteria will determine whether the Highlands and Islands win a long battle to qualify for increased cash aid from Brussels . |
| 4 | Use a long knife to carve the breast . |
| 5 | For instance , if you 've a long way to go , it 's better to get there slowly than not at all . ’ |
| 6 | We 've a long way to go , pet , and you 've had an exciting day ’ , Tamar said firmly . |
| 7 | I 've a long way to go when it comes to these explanations . |
| 8 | You 've a long way to go yet and a lot to learn . |
| 9 | They 've a long way to go if one of these youngsters are to compete at Sydney in the year 2 000 … but already they 've claimed a notable scalp . |
| 10 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 11 | The climatic extremes of the far north mean that forests take a long time to regenerate . |
| 12 | The box and pyrotechnics take a long time to set up , so we ca n't rehearse and have to hope it will be all right on the night . |
| 13 | As you now from your own experience , such events take a long time to plan , and the hope is that it will all come together on the day ! |
| 14 | Also the carbs on the SD1 V8 engine take a long time to return to idle when you take your foot off the throttle . |
| 15 | But the wounds inflicted by the media will , it appears , take a long time to heal . |
| 16 | It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold . |
| 17 | But some memories take a long time to go … especially when they 're being preserved by Historical enthusiasts . |
| 18 | Single gas instantaneous water heaters have their place alongside a storage system ; the main problem with relying on a gas multi-point heater to provide all the house 's hot water is the low flow rate which means baths take a long time to fill . |
| 19 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 20 | For one thing they are not really cultivated , mostly because the trees take a long time to bear fruit and even then are not very prolific . |
| 21 | We have asked to do so , but changes take a long time to come into effect . |
| 22 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 23 | The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think . |
| 24 | We are committed to putting money and people into the sort of programmes that take a long time to make . |
| 25 | It is towards high definition programs that take a long time to write . |
| 26 | But he knows that new formats take a long time to catch on with the public : ‘ We have n't got expectations of hundreds of thousands of units . |
| 27 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it 's a waste of time growing vegetables such as sprouts and cabbages that take a long time to grow and are cheap in the shops , but I enjoy growing beans , carrots and marrows . |
| 29 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 30 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |