Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whenever we came back to Woodbrook after a long absence , the servants would always have a fire and a meal ready to greet us , ’ Phoebe 's sister Antoinette once told me . |
| 2 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 3 | Jennie told Katharine to perform a 10m circle in the corner of the school , which helps bend the horse correctly , and then to shoulder-in up the long side . |
| 4 | Ten minutes after the tail lights of the stolen Cadillac had dwindled to nothingness up the long straight highway , Curtis pulled into the deserted forecourt of the isolated gas station . |
| 5 | The two main sets of circumstances to which the Act is normally applied relate first to mental disorder and secondly to self-neglect over a long period . |
| 6 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
| 7 | Derek Warwick , returning to Interlagos after a long absence , found it tough going in his Footwork Mugen Honda and ended up 19th on the provisional grid . |
| 8 | Young people , the unemployed and women returning to work after a long period at home will have to show extra ingenuity to extract evidence of their work skills and potential from their life history . |
| 9 | If you are taken to Harmondsworth after a long journey and several hours of interrogation by Immigration Officers , there is nowhere for you to lie down and rest . |
| 10 | To birdie with a long par-4 coming up was a great bonus when he might have expected to bogey . |
| 11 | Grain has always been important as an indicator of national well-being and prosperity , with bulging granaries more important to security in the long term than the missile silos which often share the same farmlands . |
| 12 | Enid 's response to the ‘ Coping with Depression ’ article was very positive , and this is usually predictive of a good response to counselling in the long term ( Fennell and Teasdale , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 14 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 15 | She had n't spoken to Matthew in a long time . |
| 16 | These were back to back on the long side-walls each with their Habitat anglepoise , Roland 's black , Val 's rose-pink . |
| 17 | for a work-space which is used full-time very slight departures from the optimum may lead to problems in the long term , for example in strained ligaments , tendons and muscles . |
| 18 | Fatigue fractures , by their very nature , are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time . |
| 19 | This logic has the advantage that it protects the more efficient contractor and exposes the less efficient and is thus conducive to efficiency in the long run . |
| 20 | Any hold-up is potentially damaging to patients in the long run . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Why not fly to St-Moritz for a long , lazy weekend ? |
| 22 | No matter how deep their urban roots , workers found difficulty in coming to terms with the long hours , unhealthy environment , and frequent accidents at work . |
| 23 | The attempt to impose stricter limits on arms exports followed criticism at the time of the Gulf War of German weapons sales to Iraq over a long period [ see pp. 37639 ; 37471 ; 36498 ] . |
| 24 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 25 | He wanted to lie down in front of the fire and go to sleep for a long , long time . |
| 26 | They conclude that the available evidence points to employment in the long run shifting out of the primary sector into both the manufacturing and the service sectors . |
| 27 | Whether antibiotics could be a satisfactory alternative to surgery in the long term is unclear ; some studies show possible short term benefits . |
| 28 | This can be important both in achieving agreement on prices in the short run , and in preventing the development of excess capacity , which can pose a serious threat to collusion in the long run . |
| 29 | The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time . |
| 30 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |