Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 2 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 3 | Sometimes this happens over a long period , as a person finds himself constrained to attend a Christian place of worship , or drawn to read the Christian scriptures . |
| 4 | Rattling in the chest ; every cold goes to the chest or nose and the catarrh hangs on a long time . |
| 5 | Released from duty and put on the case , Renko builds up a long list of suspects , Zita having slept with most of the crew and possibly some of the flatfish . |
| 6 | Unlike groups in laboratory studies , the work group is not created and then disbanded permanently ; it often survives over a long period of time . |
| 7 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 8 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 9 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 10 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 11 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 12 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 13 | The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way . |
| 14 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 15 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 16 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 17 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 18 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 19 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 20 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 21 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 22 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 23 | Such a rod casts long and accurately ; picks up a long line without maniacal exertion , and remains soft enough in the tip to retain the necessary shock-absorber effect . |
| 24 | One suggestion has been that the energy output of the Sun itself fluctuates over a long period . |
| 25 | This task of considering key moments can be a very valuable way of recapping from one session to the next when the drama extends over a long period , as it usually does once it becomes part of a project or topic work . |
| 26 | Where production extends over a long period as in construction industries and shipbuilding , measurement of work in progress has to be achieved by other means . |
| 27 | If it continues over a long period it could even lead to stunted growth . |