Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [adv] long [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he should not weep too long because old stone face himself , Ivan Lendl , made five attempts to land a major title . |
| 2 | In the middle of the document , he says that if the MacSharry proposals were accepted — he says that they would be — they would not last very long because they would be too expensive . |
| 3 | That this Second World War would not last so long as the First , and even that it might not be a war on such a world-scale , were legitimate presumptions at the time , and Eliot was firmly of the opinion that we should be thinking then and there of the world which would finally emerge . |
| 4 | And he said his company 's 99p set of earrings would not last as long as a Marks and Spencer prawn sandwich . |
| 5 | This vagueness will not matter so long as one is clear about the level at which the formula of ‘ ought implies can ’ is being applied : thus the latter , and weaker , kind of ‘ can not ’ would be enough to provide a strong argument against the behaviour being made into a norm for a human society , but it would not be enough if the question concerned the adoption of a personal ideal in an individual case . |
| 6 | I know that a Labour Government will be returned and I am sure that that Government will not take as long as from 1986 to the present time , as this Government have , to do something constructive about changing the law and bringing in legislation that could be enforced throughout the country . |
| 7 | Because the cake is covered in buttercream it will not keep so long as cakes made with fondant , so eat it fairly soon after it is made . |