Example sentences of "can [vb infin] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can stay a long time in neutral , ticking over — provided nothing happens . |
| 2 | Since very small , light animals can fall a long way without being hurt , it 's quite likely that it survived in the forest world under the tree and had the second most interesting experience any tree frog has ever had . |
| 3 | If brought to trial , she can expect a long prison sentence , followed by ‘ re-education through labour ’ in a camp in Qinghai — ‘ China 's Siberia ’ — an Area like the Sahara desert , in the west of the country , where the climate is notorious for its boiling heat in summer and freezing temperatures in winter . |
| 4 | A new dinghy class with an official imprimatur can expect a long and lucrative life . |
| 5 | You can expect a long and happy life if you give up serious music . |
| 6 | As long as he keeps out of the washing machine , the vet says Pristine Priskin can expect a long and happy life . |
| 7 | Erm I do n't think we can spend a long time considering them , it 's just if people bear me whisking through them our brains . |
| 8 | ‘ You can see a long way from up here , ’ said Simon . |
| 9 | ‘ When that happens , you can anticipate a long and difficult birth . ’ |
| 10 | When the losses are recognized for what they are then the healing of the pain can begin , but so often the loss is so deeply buried in people 's minds that it can take a long while for it to come to the surface again . |
| 11 | The trouble has been , however , that with the longer construction periods for nuclear stations and the further period before their cheaper running costs will allegedly show up , it can take a long time to see which way the scales really tip . |
| 12 | Happy couples can take a long walk , without a word spoken , for the quality of silence says it all . |
| 13 | It may be that , over time , education can take a long term view of itself through the medium of the successful business . |
| 14 | An old person who is bedbound may get pressure sores or ulcers in a very short time and these can take a long time to heal ( see page 78 ) . |
| 15 | Reconciling yourself to making the final decision can take a long time and be very painful . |
| 16 | Be warned though : commercial music can take a long time to clear and can also be expensive . |
| 17 | It can take a long time for a woman to rid herself of the automatic assumptions that she has absorbed about home-making , and learn to fashion an approach which suits her and her family . |
| 18 | The solvents persist for many years , and can take a long time to be degraded or removed ; the good news is that , unlike some other forms of pollution , spillages of volatile organochlorines are apparently becoming rarer as awareness of the consequences of poor practice increases . |
| 19 | Cuffs and hem are knitted , and though this does n't suit everyone — the knitting can take a long time to dry out if it gets wet — I do n't find it unacceptable . |
| 20 | Like a wound in your own flesh , a clean cut heals quickly , but a jagged , ragged , bruised gash can take a long time to heel and is open to infection all that time . |
| 21 | Biodegradable : Materials will degrade if buried , but this can take a long time ( plastics can take hundreds of years ) . |
| 22 | It is much easier to improve ‘ performance ’ on such measures by decreasing the denominator than by increasing the numerator , which can take a long time , involves risk and has to be discounted for taxation . |
| 23 | The flight action is superb although it can take a long time to get to grips with all the features of the program . |
| 24 | Defending a petition can take a long time and be expensive . |
| 25 | Fan assisted cabinets have a very rapid recovery following an air change , whereas plate evaporator designs can take a long time to return to the correct storage temperature . |
| 26 | But it also makes everything quite difficult to fully understand as it can take a long time to see what is really being said . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , I know , but if you call early we can have a long talk . ’ |
| 28 | yes , Okay , yes , I 'll see if we can have a long er coffee break , Peter ! |
| 29 | and they can walk a long way |
| 30 | With Golding , exceptionally , that can mean a long backward glance into history or even prehistory — to the world of lost innocence of Neanderthal man in The Inheritors , or to the pre-industrial world of the sailing ship in the Tarpaulin trilogy . |