Example sentences of "[to-vb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vast majority of defendants , even politically motivated ones , have not the energy , and may not have the means , to launch long and expensive appeals . |
| 2 | But when the LSIs Princess Beatrix and Queen Emma with 1 and 6 Commandos had ‘ crept along the north coast of Spain undetected ’ in their disguise as Spanish merchantmen , the LCAs came in to find long and heavy Atlantic swells pounding a bar across the target beaches in the river Ardour estuary . |
| 3 | to increase long term , regular giving |
| 4 | A network of eight regional sites has been set up to provide long term monitoring of environmental change and its impact on the ecology of the UK . |
| 5 | Our findings contrast with those of Campbell in South Belfast and Stott et al in Glasgow , since geriatricians in both Scotland and Northern Ireland have continued to provide long term care and the growth in the private sector began somewhat later than in England . |
| 6 | There is an essential interdependency between businesses and we must strive to build a partnership with our customers and to establish long term relationships with them . |
| 7 | I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating . |
| 8 | On the contrary , it was to hammer long balls into the Hearts penalty area at every opportunity on the grounds that such pressure would produce defensive mistakes . |
| 9 | Nkrumah continued to despatch long letters of brotherly advice to the Prime Minister of the Congo but the situation had passed beyond both of them . |
| 10 | This was a Churchill decaying physically , slower in the uptake , less able to work long hours , less interested in the peacetime problems of the country , but still well enough to make his own decisions . |
| 11 | teachers are highly-trained , well motivated and prepared to work long hours ; |
| 12 | The agricultural working class , deprived of a subsistence on the land by the enclosures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , thronged to the cities of the Midlands and the North where the economics of laissez-faire forced them to work long hours in wretched conditions for miserable wages , and threw them out of employment altogether as soon as there was a downturn in the market . |
| 13 | He was made to work long hours as a farm labourer and , like thousands of others , he was classed as ‘ Untermensch ’ ( subhuman ) by the soldiers . |
| 14 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 15 | But with the resurgence in business , those who are left are having to work long hours to ensure that the quality of service to clients is not affected , and she believes that she will have to start recruiting again before long . |
| 16 | But despite its glamorous image of foreign travel , meeting and dealing with firms ' top executives , and making headlines in the financial press when the deal bursts onto the markets , you have to be very committed and prepared to work long and unsocial hours ( often at weekends ) and be comfortable dealing with people who are often under stress and , in consequence , rude . |
| 17 | In corporate finance , a small group of colleagues can be expected to work long hours together under considerable pressure and conditions of secrecy . |
| 18 | This was more patriotic than wise because he had to work long hours and came home coughing ; you could smell the sulphur on his clothes . |
| 19 | They point out : ‘ During the first year or so , you will have to work long and unsociable hours and may have to go without a holiday or make other sacrifices . ’ |
| 20 | One alternative often offered by professionals as a solution to personal assistance needs requires young people to work long hours for a ‘ dole plus ’ package . |
| 21 | Despite the implementation of a Factory Act in 1916 and growing agitation in the early 1920s , many urban workers continued to work long hours for meagre wages in unhealthy and dangerous environments , and live on inadequate nourishment in slum conditions . |
| 22 | Mind you , there was a lot of us , but still we did have to work long hours . |
| 23 | This economic expansion required a large number of unskilled as well as skilled recruits to a ‘ labour force ’ from abroad because the locals were not interested or willing to work long and unsocial hours with low wages coupled with poor and insecure working conditions . |
| 24 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 25 | But in the context of the mid-Sixties , when Britain 's chaotic labour relations were deemed to be among the world 's worst , such good-natured willingness to work long hours , doing all kinds of jobs , for sums of money that were not vast , are extraordinary . |
| 26 | So I respected him , and was glad to work long hours in his stuffy little offices , learning better Spanish and the workings of a paper ; learning also something about Porua , whom I studied with almost servile interest . |
| 27 | It is bad enough when people are asked to work long hours . |
| 28 | This could occur where a mistake is made by a junior doctor who has been required to work long hours because of his contract of employment and made the mistake through exhaustion . |
| 29 | But put aside the party point scoring and one indisputable fact emerges which will readily be agreed by all health service staff are a breed apart with their dedication to duty , willingness to work long hours and commitment to patient care . |
| 30 | In the commercial world , a typical Note chain will start with a large corporation enjoying a powerful market position , and able to demand long terms from smaller suppliers . |