Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubt about its legality was finally resolved by section 310 of the Companies 1989 Act which said companies may protect their directors and officers from the costs of liability for negligence , default , breach of duty or trust so long as this is declared in the annual directors ' report . |
| 2 | They fly in long diagonal lines or large V-shapes . |
| 3 | Even the young Milla Jovovich has a wordly , knowing air and Deborah Maria Moore and Nancy Travis appear positively long in the tooth . |
| 4 | The latter are vigorous sterile hybrids which send out long rooting runners , and so are equipped to survive the rigours of demolition and grading . |
| 5 | Most fungi grow as long thin threads called hyphae — they are so slender that they can only be seen under a microscope , but a mass of intertwined hyphae is visible : this is what makes up toadstools and mushrooms . |
| 6 | Nobody could possibly offer a definite answer to this and say how long it may take to fully overcome anxiety and stress problems . |
| 7 | If you hesitate too long you may lose your chance . |
| 8 | They say that long ago , slow Sam the woodcutter Who liked to sleep in the hollow oak , Was found dead there . |
| 9 | But in truth she 'd found it difficult to sustain her patronising English mix of prurience and pity very long . |
| 10 | Why did the old woman wait so long ? |
| 11 | This more distant fire let up long enough , however , for the column to make its way beside the buildings on the east side of the basin . |
| 12 | In other words , wait as long as possible before you and your men take over . |
| 13 | Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush . |
| 14 | Wait around long enough and eventually everything will come back into fashion . |
| 15 | The last one that st was here you ken how long he stayed ? |
| 16 | Mr Milburn said : ‘ These figures show how long a patient waits before he even gets on the official waiting list . ’ |
| 17 | " Aye , but ah canna' wait that long . |
| 18 | Too many customers wait too long for replies to their complaint — replies which in too many cases are badly written and do not deal with all aspects of the complaint . |
| 19 | Absence from the scene , thought Meredith , and being involved in other countries in other people 's affairs had made it all seem rather long ago . |
| 20 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 21 | Delicate creamy-yellow ‘ E P Bowles ’ stays open just long enough to contrast beautifully with the pale mauve flowers and bright orange stamens of Crocus tommasinianus . |
| 22 | ‘ If you hang around long enough , everything comes back in fashion . |
| 23 | When preparing a suggestion for costs to your opponents you should run through a checklist of the following tasks which are likely to have occupied your time during the case and assess how long you have spent on those tasks or how much time you think you should charge for having completed those tasks : Letters out , miscellaneous telephone calls . |
| 24 | I ca n't wait for you any longer , especially when I consider how long it might take to extricate you from another relationship if I give you time and you use it to involve yourself with Jones or whoever else you might have in mind … |
| 25 | It 's a long time before cloth wholly decays — look how long a bag of cement lasts under water when it 's used for emergency repairs to a sea-wall . |
| 26 | Well I said if you stand there long enough I said , you 'll catch him ! |
| 27 | your lids looked when you read too long |
| 28 | " Bus too long . |
| 29 | When I think back to my own childhood I remember only long sun-struck afternoons , the smell of dust under avenues of eucalyptus , the quiet rustle of water in roadside furrows , the lulling of doves . |
| 30 | By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language . |