Example sentences of "they [vb base] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Embedded in his initial instructions to Joshua concerning the actions the people are to take on the seventh day we find the clause , ‘ … when they make a long blast with the ram 's horn ’ . |
| 2 | The single Hebrew word translated ‘ when they make a long blast ’ is a common enough verb meaning to ‘ draw ’ or ‘ drag ’ . |
| 3 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 4 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 5 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |
| 6 | The new proposals on water competition were introduced following our discussion in Committee , and they go a long way to improving competition in the water industry . |
| 7 | You 're not required to know all that remember or indeed any of it because they have everything they need to know , particularly if they do the long tour , they have everything they need to know on the tour and everything they need to know about the furniture well pieces of furnitures . |
| 8 | The question of his metropolitan privileges will require separate discussion , for they cast a long shadow over the whole of Anselm 's life as archbishop . |
| 9 | They 've a long way to go if one of these youngsters are to compete at Sydney in the year 2 000 … but already they 've claimed a notable scalp . |
| 10 | This Tokyo factory is the one that makes the modern Schecter guitars as well as the Casio synth guitars and Kramer electrics ( recently deceased ) so they 've a long history of making quality instruments . |
| 11 | In the third year they take two full-year courses , two one-term options , and in addition they write a long essay on a selected topic . |
| 12 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 13 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 14 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 15 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 16 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 17 | Otherwise , if they take the long route , it adds ten days going from Guam in the Pacific to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean . |
| 18 | Consequently 21 per cent of the population of Great Britain report that they have a long standing limiting illness ( 19 per cent of males and 22 per cent of females ) . |
| 19 | If uranium prices are going to swing in favour of fast reactors , they have a long way to go . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 21 | They have a long way to go . |
| 22 | But they have a long way to recover . |
| 23 | They have a long agenda that includes the GATT trade talks and a host of foreign issues , including Iraq , Bosnia , Russia and , to British embarrassment , Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | In the secondary sector they have a long history of influence as local employers . |
| 25 | They have a long history of use in planning practice , there is a wide measure of consensus about their use in control and , where covered by policy , it tends to be as broad , flexible statements in structure or local plans , amplified in detail in supplementary planning guidance . |
| 26 | Left unprocessed , they have a long storage life if kept dry . |
| 27 | They have a long tradition of solid trade union organisation . |
| 28 | The bland and the placid may seem to sail through life but they are either living a superficial existence or else , like the rest of us , they experience the long shadow of despair . |