Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 2 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 3 | Cindy Hill breathed out a long sigh of relief . |
| 4 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 5 | Using artificial light to break up a long night into two short ones promotes the flowering of long-day plants and hinders the flowering of short-day ones . |
| 6 | When the 10th Plenum of the Central Committee met in September 1956 , Vo Nguyen Giap read out a long list of errors , some quite devastating : ‘ We have failed to realise the necessity of uniting with the middle-level peasants . |
| 7 | The broad branching heads of large , ragged yellow daisies appear over a long period during summer ; a large patch is a magnificent spectacle . |
| 8 | The cab skidded to a halt , its headlights pointing down a long slope of scree . |
| 9 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 10 | Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’ |
| 11 | M my parents live quite a long way away and erm y you 've got to you need the support of others . |
| 12 | and the problem of access to the flats , and sometimes the necessity to walk quite a long way before you can get out onto the street , which would be a problem for young mothers with , with , with small children , as equally it would be a problem for elderly people or disabled people . |
| 13 | Hans let out a long breath . |
| 14 | The feeding process takes quite a long time , depending of course on the sizes of the individuals concerned and various environmental factors , such as temperature ( see p. 303 ) . |
| 15 | Three to five years seems quite a long way forward in the current uncertain climate . |
| 16 | Penry reached out a long arm and drew her in front of him so that she stood in the shelter of his arms as he held the wheel . |
| 17 | We to put the decorations up in th in a s in a short time limit , the decorations take quite a long time to put up and as you know the decorations are erm are very famous er they 're nationally recognized . |
| 18 | Such distinctions mattered more in Russia or the Dual Monarchy , where the capitalist and professional classes had still a long way to go before winning social acceptance by the old nobility . |
| 19 | They have mail tunics and basic helmets whilst their banner is a typical ‘ dragon ’ or tubular device carried on a long shaft . |
| 20 | This task of considering key moments can be a very valuable way of recapping from one session to the next when the drama extends over a long period , as it usually does once it becomes part of a project or topic work . |
| 21 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 23 | Harry let out a long breath . |
| 24 | Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him . |
| 25 | Rattling in the chest ; every cold goes to the chest or nose and the catarrh hangs on a long time . |
| 26 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 27 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 28 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 29 | One is that the abuse is part of the way two people communicate over a long period of time . |
| 30 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |