Example sentences of "not [verb] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 2 | A similar effect of , on the one hand , challenging the reader to take up an alert and interpretative role , and , on the other , gratuitously creating an amorphous but strong atmosphere peculiar to the fabliau through the text , is achieved by extensive use of the homonyms vit and con , and com-/con- as a common suffix in the Romance languages : ( I can not make a long tale : in this castle there was a count and with him the countess , his wife , who was a very beautiful and worthy woman ; and there were [ or she had ] more than thirty knights . |
| 3 | Like being a child again , she thought , not understanding the long words , the adult jokes . |
| 4 | We shall not watch the long delay |
| 5 | Moreover , the stochastic events in the model have no effect on the terminal position in either case ; the presence of noise or its magnitude do not alter the long run outcomes . |
| 6 | They 're not getting a long lie . |
| 7 | Shareholders who do not have a long term commitment are replaced by stakeholders who do , as the ‘ owners ’ of the company . |
| 8 | Nights when ops were on were not so hectic now that the boys did not have the long runs to Berlin and Nuremburg , just specific targets in France and western Germany . |
| 9 | If those resources had been given three or four years ago , we would not have the long delays that lead to so much misery , and the small number of non-genuine asylum seekers would not be here for longer than we would all want . |
| 10 | Mercifully the illness did not take a long course . |
| 11 | Ranks of fomaica-topped tables were besieged by steel chairs , which did not encourage a long stay . |
| 12 | Invariably a financial institution will not risk the long term profits bound up in honest work and good reputation for the short term gains to be had from abusing conflict of interest situations such as dealing on the basis of inside information obtained from a client . |
| 13 | This immense destruction , not to mention the long term damage caused by nuclear fallout , would linger for years . |
| 14 | Since the catalytic cleavage of DNA by bleomycin occurs by a free radical mechanism it may not require a long residence time on its binding site . |
| 15 | It was not to have a long future , although Mary summoned it late in 1553 to announce her proposed marriage to Philip of Castile . |