Example sentences of "be [verb] to long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three had been assigned to Long Kesh Prison near Lisburn to await trial . |
| 2 | A number of people have already been sentenced to long prison terms in connection with the robbery . |
| 3 | All had been sentenced to long prison sentences for the " dirty war " against left-wing guerrillas and dissidents , during which an estimated 9,000 people " disappeared " and thousands more were abducted , tortured and murdered . |
| 4 | The human rights organization Amnesty International on Dec. 10 issued a report on Myanma listing some 200 people arrested in the country during the first seven months of 1991 , nearly 40 of whom had been sentenced to long prison terms after " blatantly unfair " trials . |
| 5 | A regional Communist Party leader before the 1989 revolution which overthrew his father , he had been sentenced to long prison sentences for murder ( later overturned ) and other crimes [ see pp. 37725 ; 38306 ] . |
| 6 | If there are several competing paths , only those paths that can be matched to long words are continued , and a short word will only be retrieved from the buffer if none of the possible paths can be matched to a long word . |
| 7 | This increase , however , can be attributed to long naps taken outside the main sleep period and increased sleep time on rest days . |
| 8 | A significant element of remuneration will now be linked to long term performance measured as the growth in the value of the Company 's stock units through the period to 31 December 1996 . |
| 9 | Hall replied that there were a lot of wagons outside and that it looked as though some men were to go to Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 10 | In a trial held in October 1990 , 38 members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam ( NUFLVN ) resistance movement were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment after being found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 11 | The managers of the company were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment in October . |
| 12 | Excessive fading can occur if a rug is exposed to long periods of strong sunlight , and is best avoided by either relocating the rug or putting it in storage for the summer . |
| 13 | Ngawang Buchung was sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for activities in support of Tibetan independence , which included circulating Tibetan translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |