Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Politis editor , Mr Jean-Paul Besset , said his magazine had carried out a long investigation into dangerous waste dumping , including the discovery in 1983 of barrels of earth impregnated with dioxin from Seveso that were illegally shipped to northern France by an independent contractor . |
| 2 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 3 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 4 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
| 5 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 6 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 7 | In the resonance technique a series of pulses of either compressional or torsional waves is transmitted down a long rod mechanically coupled to the specimen under investigation . |
| 8 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 9 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
| 10 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
| 11 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 12 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 13 | He had drawn up a long list of people she ought to talk to during the day : fashion houses , designers , a couple of artists ' studios , a gallery specializing in contemporary prints . |
| 14 | erm on the next er , item er we have er on item ten we 've got the welfare rights and er advice and we 've got quite a long report which I hope you 'll agree is an excellent report , er and er Sue is here to present it . |
| 15 | He 's got quite a long body which is what |
| 16 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 17 | This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory . |
| 18 | But a doctor , one of the doctors in the same hospital saying , that the , during the First World War , when they were so desperate , you know , so many casualties , they had to cut short treatment , and they had to bandage men up and leave them bandaged up a long length of , they found it was often better to leave a wound bandaged up in it 's own |
| 19 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 20 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 21 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 22 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |
| 23 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 24 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 25 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 26 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 27 | VAMPIRE PRESERVATION GROUP have recently acquired Sea Venom XG737 from the Wales Aircraft Museum , which will be put on a long term restoration programme after completion of the group 's Vampire T.11 and Jet Provost T.4 . |
| 28 | The Government has advised that women who are pregnant or may become pregnant should not eat liver , as very large doses of vitamin A taken over a long period may be associated with foetal abnormalities . |
| 29 | Unfortunately it may conceivably cause liver disease if taken over a long period , and this is to be tested by administering it to pigs . |
| 30 | This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place . |