Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Goes on a long time does it ? |
| 32 | Richards hopes for a longer liaison with his manager than the three-and-a-half-year deal just signed by Francis . |
| 33 | Deceleration commences with a long delay number ( 25 ) , which allows time for the rotor to swing past the equilibrium position into a position where the motor is producing the negative torque required for deceleration . |
| 34 | Deceleration commences with a long excitation period ( T1' ) to allow the rotor to move ahead of the equilibrium position and produce negative torque . |
| 35 | Question time , which might be used to investigate major issues of general public interest , degenerates into a long series of requests for information about individual cases : 333 out of the 357 questions put to the Minister for Social Welfare in October and November 1983 fell into this category . |
| 36 | The kilometre long cutting emerges onto a longer embankment with extensive views over the Tame valley and back towards West Bromwich . |
| 37 | If the situation lasts for a long time with no sign of improvement , you should discuss the future very carefully with the doctor or hospital specialist , rather than trying to cope in a hopeless situation which can not resolve itself . |
| 38 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 39 | But it is possible to have a covenant which lasts for a longer period , provided that the period is specified in the Deed . |
| 40 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |
| 41 | But the connection of transgressive desire with forgetfulness and oblivion is important and follows in a long tradition : religious , mystical , or romantic or some combination of all these . |
| 42 | This , the kylix par excellence , remains for a long time a vehicle for some of the finest vase-drawing , in the ton do and in many figured compositions between the handles . |
| 43 | Global ventricular dilatation , which results from a progressive increase in myocyte length with sarcomere recruitment and resulting hypertrophy of the non-infarcted myocardium , continues for a long time . |
| 44 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 45 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |
| 46 | The only sensation he could equate it with was that remoteness that comes during a long run , when the lines of the play get delivered every night , but the actor 's mind is miles away , thinking about anything but the performance he is giving . |
| 47 | When the laird returns after a long absence the shoals of herring fill the sea-loch outside the castle ; if a woman departs for the islands opposite , the shoals will desert the Macleods . |
| 48 | For me , overriding all practical considerations , there is the spiritual uplift which comes after a long sea passage when , at dawn or evening , I enter some tangle-fringed sea loch with the majesty of the hills reflecting from its still waters . |
| 49 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |
| 50 | It comes in a long roll of 20m , and has a neat perforator which enables you to tear off a strip to the correct length . |
| 51 | Drife should not be surprised that many women respond to a strange man with a conditioned response that arises from a long learning experience in a male dominated society . |