Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This is obviously a strong incentive to go for long periods . |
| 2 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 3 | It is never a good idea to sit for long periods but , if this is essential , get up from time to time in order to move the body . |
| 4 | On the other hand , though , it 's quite possible for Vulcanian eruptions to continue for long periods , with fresh viscous magma constantly being supplied . |
| 5 | The oxygen consumption of an insect may rise a hundredfold when flight begins and if it is to continue for long periods a reserve of oxidizable respiratory material is needed . |
| 6 | Frankly there just is n't the money to go around , and kids are being made to suffer for long periods of time er for operations which really could be done if only they had the money . |
| 7 | You body wo n't turn as much as it did before , you get tired more quickly , you 're less able to concentrate for long periods and have to allow for more errors . |
| 8 | He was very tired and found it hard to concentrate for long periods of time . |
| 9 | Despite some progress they have done little to compensate for long term NHS underfunding |
| 10 | These muscles have the function of keeping us upright against the ever-present force of gravity ; they have the advantage of never tiring as they need to work for long periods at a time . |
| 11 | You will need to be able to work for long periods with a high degree of accuracy , and have really good eyesight . |
| 12 | Another important attribute is the ability to work for long periods almost independently and not feel alienated but , on the other hand , also be able to integrate with the team . |
| 13 | He is a widower , with no family and few interests outside the hotel : as a result , he is prepared to work for long hours and generally acts as night porter during the week . |
| 14 | Nick said , ‘ I 'll pay your air-fare and you wo n't have to worry about long train journeys . ’ |
| 15 | The report concludes with references to increase in long term unemployment and slump in business optimism . |
| 16 | Women who preferred who preferred traditional methods of sanitary protection either had to stand in long queues in order to buy just one or two towels you could n't even buy a packet , you could just buy one or two or make do with other methods . |
| 17 | The 1.5kg device has a large enough handle to grip for long periods . |
| 18 | There does need to be some organisation and structure , teachers do need time to organise their classrooms before the start of school and no one really wants to engage in long discussions when there are children to be settled and registers to be marked . |
| 19 | A biomaterial may also have to function for long periods of time in the body . |
| 20 | You say your wife 's got erm an insurance policy to er to cover for long term sickness ? |
| 21 | Shot-shy Omagh were unlucky not to equalise with long range efforts from full back John Quigg and Lee King , but gradually they lost their way . |
| 22 | As long ago as 1957 Chomsky pointed out the weaknesses of n-gram techniques to provide an English grammar based on their inability to cope with long distance dependencies . |
| 23 | The Easy-Carve is in fact not as noisy as one might imagine , but it is not necessarily a tool I 'd want to use for long stretches . |
| 24 | We found the machine was fairly comfortable to use for long periods , but the high body did make it slightly awkward to control in tight corners . |
| 25 | And it will need to deal with long stretches of language , rather than handfuls of utterances . |
| 26 | Lambing time usually coincided with the busy spring work resulting in the full-time farm wives having to put in long hours , often in poor weather conditions . |
| 27 | If the fundamentalist factions drop their differences to form a coalition , they could sweep the board : a prospect dreaded by many Algerians who do not want to emerge from long years of joyless socialism only to face even more joyless Islamic militancy . |
| 28 | Hall replied that there were a lot of wagons outside and that it looked as though some men were to go to Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 29 | But older generations of chefs learned to cook through long apprenticeships of five to nine years . |
| 30 | However , adaptive research is rather demanding upon scarce skilled manpower , and it also requires researchers to live for long periods outside the comfort and orderliness of the research station itself . |